Orange vigilance for the risk of thunderstorms and heavy rains, issued Wednesday morning by Météo France, has been lifted for the 32 departments, the organization announced in its bulletin published this Thursday morning.

Thursday, the weather will remain stormy from the southwest to the northeast, with significant accumulations to be feared in Occitania.

The 6 o'clock bulletin from Météo France forecasts "a lull this Thursday morning before a new rain-storm expected for the middle of the day from the Garonne valley to the south of the Massif Central, intensifying in the evening from the Piedmont Pyrenees between Ariège and Haute-Garonne, as far as Tarn / Tarn-et-Garonne, with significant accumulations expected in Midi-Pyrénées ”.

Thunderstorms monitored in the Midi-Pyrénées

The rain-storm wave will stretch from Haute-Normandie, Ile-de-France, in the center of the country to Occitanie, then Hauts-de-France and Grand-Est during the night.

We will particularly watch for rainy and stormy activity, which can be strong in Midi-Pyrénées.

For Thursday, the rainy-stormy zone will drag from Occitanie to Limousin to Burgundy, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine.

In the afternoon, over these areas, thunderstorms will become frequent again.

They will be strong locally, from Limousin down to the Pyrenees with significant accumulations again.

West of these regions, after a relative calm in the morning with more scattered showers, instability will restart from midday.

Locally thundery showers will increase.

Lower temperatures

On the rest of France, the sky will be mainly cloudy from the east of the Massif Central to the Rhône valley to the PACA.

On the Alpine massif and the Corsican relief, showers will develop, they will end up affecting, with the diurnal evolution, Franche-Comté and Alsace.

As for temperatures, it will be mild in the morning, between 15 and 19 degrees, locally, 20/21 around the Mediterranean.

In the afternoon, the drop in temperatures will be noticeable: expect 23 to 26 degrees in general, locally 20 to 23 in Brittany, and near La Manche, up to 27 to 30 in Provence and Corsica.

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