Some were locally violent, like in Gironde or Essonne. Météo-France has put 47 departments under orange surveillance this Wednesday. signature
Some were locally violent, like in Gironde or Essonne. Météo-France has placed 47 departments under orange surveillance this Wednesday.
A sigh of relief for many. After a difficult day and night with a heat wave, the first storms broke out on Tuesday, including in the Paris region. They mark the last days of this heat wave. But they can also be locally violent, like in Gironde or Essonne, for example. In Longjumeau, the town hall and the main streets of the city center had to be closed after the storm and heavy rains” from Tuesday afternoon.
The Essonne departmental forces reported in a message on Twitter “falling objects”, including several departmental roads. It was also clarified that some of the streets in Villejust and Dourdan were flooded. The A6 was also flooded on Tuesday until 5:00 p.m. near Savigny-sur-Orge, according to the BFM Paris fire service.
A tree that fell on an overhead cable in Fontaine-Michalon also disrupted traffic on the RER B, the RATP said on Tuesday.
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Heavy showers and gusts of wind on the Bordeaux side. The weather in the Pyrenees calls for caution. The photos speak for themselves.
A strong storm in Cantal also caused damage, especially in the town of Saint-Georges. Homes and businesses were flooded, and there was also a mudslide, according to our colleagues at La Montaña.
47 departments on alert for orange storm
But the arrival of a downward storm from the west that will end a week-long heat wave on Thursday has created a new risk. This Wednesday, Météo-France placed 47 departments under orange surveillance, in a large western part of France. In part of those regions, especially in Ile-de-France, this warning storm overlaps the alert, red or orange heat wave. For others, particularly in Britain, storms are the only weather warning.
homes to stormy local events from time to time in the mornings between the Vendée and Brittany. At the end of the morning, south of the Loire, the storm cells grow and organize themselves into a denser system. This body is violently active and most violent in the early afternoon in the Loire Valley, then it conquers Brittany and Maine, and in the late afternoon, Basse-Normandie.
The episode will be short (1 or 2 hours) but intense with hail, heavy rain, significant electrical activity and gusts of wind that may locally exceed 100 km/h. In the early evening, thunderstorms will be strongest in the southwest quadrant. The rains can be endured. In the northeast there will be light showers with thunder during the day. It will get stronger at night.
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In the southeast, low clouds will be present in Lavlje zaljev in the morning and will disperse during the hours. The weather will remain dry with changeable skies from Provence in Rhône-Alpes. Showers accompanied by thunder will develop over the Alps and the Massif Central.
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The low will still be quite high, generally 17-20 degrees, up to 20-22 in the Hauts-de-France and the southwest. Maximum range from 21 to 28 degrees in Brittany and along the Atlantic coast, from 30 to 34 degrees in Normandy in the southwest and along the Mediterranean, from 33 to 36 degrees in Provence in Hauts-de-France in the northeast. On Thursday, the heat wave ends at 9:00 p.m.
Date Updated: August 12, 2020, 3:58 PM
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