nine departments of the South-West on orange vigilance | EUROtoday

Potentially violent thunderstorms are anticipated from the starting of the night in nine departments in the south-west of France.

By Jérémy Billault for Le Point (with AFP)

HASfter the warmth wave, the threat of thunderstorms. This Monday morning, Météo-France positioned nine departments in the South-West on orange alert in the face of the threat of thunderstorms at the finish of the day. The departments involved are the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the Landes, with a threat of thunderstorms from 7 p.m. in addition to the Gironde, the Dordogne, the Lot-et-Garonne, the Lot, the Tarn-et-Garonne, the Gers and the Hautes-Pyrénées, later in the night.

These storms will preserve away the warmth data damaged in France throughout the weekend, in line with Météo-France forecasts. On the Atlantic coast, Normandy and Hauts-de-France, after the storms of the evening, the sky might be chaotic, stormy showers will flow into in locations, interspersed with calms.

Dry and sunny climate in the east

In the afternoon, the sky will stay cloudy over the western half of the nation, whereas thunderstorms will resume in Limousin but in addition in the Basque Country. These storms will generally be sturdy, with a threat of small to medium hail and gusts between 60 and 80 km/h. At the finish of the afternoon and in the night, these storms will cross the Centre-Val de Loire then the Paris basin and attain the north of the nation. A threat of remoted thunderstorms will even proceed additional west, from Aquitaine to Brittany and Normandy.