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Johann Foucault
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France is still undergoing an overwhelming heat wave, for which many departments remain in the orange heat wave, this Saturday, August 16, 2025. But storms, too, persist.
After returning to the middle of the week, and with around twenty departments in vigilance on Friday, this Saturday also will be marked by stormy showers, with some departments in Yellow vigilance Storms.
This is due to the arrival of an “unstable evolution which takes shape on the eastern facade of the country in the afternoon on Saturday,” said in its latest Météo France bulletin.
Storms are triggered on the Vosges, the Jura, the Italian border. Thunderstorms will also be able to break out in Corsica, rather on Southern Corsica.
Several departments in yellow alert for thunderstorms
For the day of Saturday August 16, 2025, Seven departments are placed in yellow vigilance thunderstorms:
- Skin
- Alpes-Maritimes
- Doubs
- Savoy
- Haute-Savoie
- Territory of Belfort
- Corsica-du-Sud
The wind also of the part
To these weather conditions is added the Wind returnwith significant gusts expected in places. “The Mistral is back, it reaches 40 to 50 km/h in the morning, 50 to 70 km/h in the second part of the day, specifies Météo France, according to which” the tramontane rises in the afternoon, at 50/60 km/h “.
A phenomenon to be monitored therefore. If the heat wave is planned to last at least until next Tuesday, a new stormy episode could also occur by Tuesday-mercredi.
Next week, “the time may be unstable with showers and thunderstorms,” warned meteorologist Guillaume Séchet withactu.fr In recent days.
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