Météo France has placed the Gard in orange alert for thunderstorms and rain-innon on Tuesday, August 19. Several sectors are already affected by this degradation.
Cumulative 60 to 80 mm of precipitation in a few hours, hail and strong gusts of wind. This is the summer cocktail that Météo France announces to us for this end of the day and early evening of Tuesday, August 19. And the forecasters have seen right because the first images of the rains start to turn on social networks.
In recent hours, high intensity thunderstorms have affected Hérault, Gard, Vaucluse and Lozère, with hail and sometimes + 50 mm of rain in a short time. 18,000 lightning since that afternoon.
\ u27a1 \ ufe0fsuivi live storms: https://t.co/6gnoajsnvt pic.twitter.com/jZ0LiPPQO5– Keraunos (@keraunosobs) August 19, 2025
Hail on the highway
Starting with this Video of Météo Languedoc where we see on the A9 motorway, near Roquemaure, heavy goods vehicles and vehicles at the stop with their distress lights stationed on the right track or on the emergency stop band. Caution for a strong thunderstorm accompanied by hail!
Strong rains also hit the Gardonnenque, the Carnas sector, towards Quissac, but also the Piedmont Cévenol, further west. The interactive card of lightning discharges from the Keraunos site makes it possible to note that this mid-afternoon was more than electric on a band from Ganges to the Rhodanian Gard via the north of Nîmes. Significant accumulation in a short time have been noted in these areas around 4 p.m.
\ U26C8 \ UFE0F The heat wave ends with strong thunderstorms in Languedoc. They give intense rains, like here in Lirac in the Gard. (\ u00a9 Alain Lambert) pic.twitter.com/FaZ5kHe3nz
– Express weather (@meteoexpress) August 19, 2025
The Rhodanian Gard was exposed to the stormy disruption. The Gard prefecture indicates that the Gardon of Alès, that of Anduze and upstream sectors will be monitored closely during this episode. The end of the day and the evening could still be the framework of strong streams and reactions of watercourses.
