Thunderstorms broke out everywhere this Saturday, July 12 in the 34 departments placed in vigilance “thunderstorms” by Météo France.
Météo France has placed 34 departments in alert “thunderstorms” 34 departments for this Saturday, July 12, including all of Occitania. Two “Occitans” departments were even placed in orange vigilance:
- hears
- Pyrénées-Orientales
These two departments have also been the subject of orange vigilance for rains and floods, supplemented by yellow vigilance with floods. These thunderstorms and heavy rains are due to a cold drop installed on the Pyrenees and the south of the Gulf of Gascogne.
And the thunderstorms were there, this Saturday. Particularly on the Pyrénées-Orientales, with strips of water that fell on Ille-sur-Têt, Estagel or at the Boulou level where a hundred vehicles were blocked at an exit ramp of the A9 motorway, according to the independent. Around 5 p.m., Météo Languedoc-Roussillon reported a “lightning bombing between the Spanish border and western Hérault“.
The Aude was not to be outdone with strong generalized precipitation throughout the department and large thunderstorms reported on the Narbonnais, the Carcassonnais and the Lauragais.
In the Tarn, a large stormy cell moved south of Albi, with heavy rain and hail which ravaged crops, caused muds and flooded secondary roads.
Lightning, hail and up to 60 mm of rain in an hour also in the west of Aveyron, around Villefranche-de-Rouergue.
These thunderstorms gradually gain all the Hérault then in the evening all the Gard.
On the night of Saturday July 12 to Sunday July 13, stormy and locally strong verses will break out in a circle of the Pyrénées-Orientales at the gates of Marseille including the lot, the Cantal, the Lozère and the Gard.