Lightning and heat.

Thunderstorms are still to be expected on Saturday, first in the west before the thunderstorm rains reach the east in the evening, forecasts Météo-France.

The chain also keeps the Rhône department on orange vigilance for heatwaves.

In the regions bordering the English Channel and the Atlantic, the sky will be loaded in the morning with already a few scattered showers and sometimes thunderclaps.

On the plains of Occitania, the sky will be covered with low clouds, the Autan wind will pick up and blow at 60 to 80 km / h at the end of the day, the southerly wind will be even stronger over the Pyrenees.

Strong thunderstorms and hail

In the afternoon, the sky will cover over a western half of the country, the muggy weather will turn to a thunderstorm.

At the end of the day, the sometimes sustained stormy rains will stretch from the southwest to the Belgian border, with locally strong thunderstorms and hail, then spread towards Lorraine and Burgundy in the evening.

On the Atlantic coast, the thunderstorms will stop and the sky will clear up at the end of the day, in a cooler atmosphere.

In the eastern half of the country, the weather will be calmer, still warm.

The sky will be quite bright but more and more hazy, the stormy rains will arrive from the west in the evening.

33 degrees east

Stormy showers will develop over the Alps in the afternoon, accompanied by a fairly strong southerly wind.

Some showers will also be possible in the Jura and the Vosges.

Minimum temperatures will range from 12 to 16 degrees in the north-western quarter of the country and the Massif Central, from 17 to 21 elsewhere.

The maximums will vary between 19 and 23 degrees over Brittany, Normandy and Pays de la Loire, between 24 and 28 from Hauts-de-France to Aquitaine and Occitanie and another 29 to 33 degrees further east.

Miscellaneous

Occitanie: Damage following storms, a 3-year-old child injured in the Tarn

Bordeaux

Gironde: Around 500 firefighters' interventions after the heavy rains of the night, 59 people evacuated

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