If he was still excessively hot this Wednesday afternoon, with temperatures between 33 and 37 ° C, even locally 38 ° C on the eastern Belgium, the situation has changed drastically from the end of the afternoon. Indeed, thunderstorms have raged: in the Namur regions and Liège, in particular, large hailings and large rains have cooled Wallonia.
MRI had warned: the clouds were going to appear and give rise to sometimes violent localized thunderstorms, with high precipitation in a short time and hail. The wind was moderate, but, in thunderstorms, the gusts reached 50 to 70 km/h and even 100 km/h under an isolated violent thunderstorm.
For this reason, the MRI brought its yellow alert to thunderstorms issued on Wednesday morning to the Orange code on Wednesday morning. Fortunately, night has seen the thunderstorm showers leave the territory by the east and time become dry everywhere. The Liège and Hutois firefighters intervened sixty times. The interventions mainly concerned trees that fell on the public highway. The firefighters say that there was no flood and no injuries are to be reported.
Holds of 4 centimeters!
Via the orange button to alert us, one of our readers shared its find: hailstones of more than 4 centimeters fallen near his home, near Anhée, in the Namur region:
