Forty-seven departments will be placed in orange alert Wednesday June 25 at 4 p.m. for thunderstorms, announced Météo-France, which provides stormy episodes “Sometimes violent on a very large central axis of the country”. According to the Météo-France bulletin, these 47 departments are in a large central strip from north to the south of the country, from Somme to Haut-Garonne, while the Rhône and Isère are placed in orange alert for heat wave Tuesday and Wednesday.
Thunderstorms that appeared on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday along the Atlantic facade will strengthen in the early afternoon, then will quickly extend to a Quercy-Limousin-Auvergne axis by gaining intensity. Météo-France thus provides heavy rains (30 mm to 50 mm in one to two hours), locally medium to large to large to large size (2 cm to 5 cm), and gusts of up to 100 km/h.
Other thunderstorms will develop at the end of the afternoon and evening in Normandy and the north of the Pays de la Loire, sometimes associated with strong gusts, hail and heavy rain.
The SNCF indicates, on the side, that that because of a “Strong storm degradation”she decided to “Interruption of rail traffic from 4 pm and until [la] End of service “ For the departments of Allier, Cantal, Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dôme. Concerning the “Rhône-Alpes perimeter”SNCF calls travelers to “Anticipate as much as possible [leurs] Travel “ If they have planned to borrow the Saint-Etienne-Roanne lines, Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d’Oranne-Clermont-Ferrand and Lozanne-Paray-le-Monial.
For the first time of the year in mainland France, “40 ° C were reached in Languedoc at the foot of the Cévennes in Moulès-et-Baucels (Hérault) where 40.2 ° C was noted”announced Météo-France Tuesday at the end of the day. This symbolic bar had been crossed for the first time in mid-July the previous year.
Wednesday, points at 35 ° C, or even 38 ° C, are expected in Burgundy, in 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 in the Mediterranean periphery.
France has been crossed since June 21 by its fiftieth wave of national heat since 1947, half of which were suffered in the 21st century, a consequence of global warming, which increases the intensity and frequency of heat waves.
