After the heat wave comes the storm: Météo-France announced this Tuesday that 13 departments, mainly from the Massif Central and Normandy, would be placed on orange alert on Wednesday from 4 pm due to “a frank thunderstorm degradation” by the Southwest and the West. “Locally violent storms are expected at the end of the afternoon and evening” Wednesday in Allier, Calvados, Cantal, Corrèze, Creuse, Eure, Loire, Lot, Mayenne, Orne, Puy-de-Dôme, Sarthe and Seine-Maritime. The Rhône and Isère are on orange alert for heat wave.
The first storms will circulate this evening on Tuesday and at night along the Atlantic facade, without special severity, according to Météo-France. They will strengthen on Wednesday at the beginning of the afternoon and then spread quickly on a Quercy-Limousin-Auvergne axis by gaining intensity.
Rafales at almost 100 km/h
Météo-France thus provides heavy rains (30 to 50 mm in one to two hours), locally medium to large to large-sized hail falls (up to 2 to 5 cm) and gusts up to 100 km/h. Other thunderstorms will develop at the end of the afternoon and evening on Normandy and the North of Pays-de-la-Loire, sometimes associated with strong gusts, hail and heavy rain.
This Tuesday afternoon, the maximum temperatures display from 30 to 32 ° C on three-quarters south and east of the country, with peaks at 35/38 ° C in the South West and the Midi Mediterranean. The night of this Tuesday to Wednesday will be hot, with minimum temperatures fairly frequently higher than 20 ° C in the south.
Wednesday, points at 35/38 ° C are expected in Burgundy, at the center, at the gates of the Paris Basin. A refreshment will take place from the west with the arrival of thunderstorms before a notable decrease generalized Thursday except on the Mediterranean periphery.
