Thunderstorms: 22 departments placed in orange alert Sunday: News

In its latest bulletin of Sunday July 20 at 6 p.m., Météo France said that twenty-two departments were placed in orange vigilance. Meanwhile,

Drastic change of time in the east of the country. Meanwhile, In its 6-hour bulletin on Sunday, July 20, Météo-France placed twenty-two departments in orange alert. Furthermore, Drôme. Similarly, Ardèche, Isère, Loire, Rhône, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Ain, Jura, Doubs, Territoire de Belfort, Haute-Saône, Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Moselle, Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin and Dawn are placed in orange thunderstorms, indicates the Meteorological Institute on its official page. Therefore, Savoy, Haute-Savoie, Isère, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Vaucluse, Bouches-du-Rhône and Gard are also placed in orange rainy-overnight vigilance.

“In the evening. next night, a rainy-stingy front concerns the Alps and the Basse Valley of the Rhône, to the East Languedoc. This forehead can bring marked rain: 50 to 80 mm, thunderstorms: 22 departments placed orange locally 100 mm”, specifies Météo-France. Beyond the thunderstorms. eight departments will also undergo significant cumulation and have therefore been placed in orange vigilance ‘Rain-rude’: Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Isère, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Vaucluse, Bouches-du-Rhône and Gard. Caution, these accumulations of rain “can cause problems of muds and/or streams,” warns the last bulletin.

Gusts up to 130 km – Thunderstorms: 22 departments placed orange

For the territories confronted with stormy episodes. the Meteorological Institute speaks of a “notable storm episode requiring particular vigilance insofar as there is a high probability of violent phenomena”. “In the early afternoon Sunday. a fairly marked thunderstorm wave will concern the departments of Côte-d’Or and Haute-Marne then quickly spread to Lorraine in the afternoon,” it writes in the account of the day.

Several important phenomena will accompany this degradation scheduled for the beginning of the afternoon: “Wind gusts often between 70. 90 km/h and which can very punctually the 100 to thunderstorms: 22 departments placed orange 120 km/h; rainy intensities of the order of 15 to 30 mm in a short time, or even very locally up to almost 40 mm in an hour; small small, or even average hail); a particularly marked lighting density. “

If no extension is planned for orange vigilance at present. Additionally, “monitoring the situation and the latest forecasts could lead to a potential extension to the west and the south of the area already in orange.” Stay vigilant.

Posted on July 20 at 4:43 p.m., Sébastien Salpietro & François Bouttemy, 6medias

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