The sky is fierce in the Southwest.

About 200 firefighter interventions were underway Monday evening in Gironde for material damage following thunderstorms and major hailstorms accompanied by gusts of wind which affected in particular the agglomeration of Bordeaux and the Gironde coast, announced the service. departmental fire and rescue (Sdis).

Around 10:30 p.m., the firefighters were still engaged mainly for "damaged roofs, cables on the public road, flooded premises, fallen trees", detailed an official from Sdis in Gironde, specifying that at this time, no victim was was to be deplored.

Hail the size of golf balls

In Gironde, placed on orange “storm” alert by Météo-France like 20 other departments of the South-West and Center-Val-de-Loire, hailstones the size of golf balls fell in certain places, as in the Bordeaux metropolis.

“The locally virulent thunderstorms” circulate over the South-West, “giving hailstones several centimeters in diameter, gusts of wind (…), intense precipitation (…) and very marked electrical activity”, detailed Météo- France in its 10:30 p.m. bulletin.

Under these storms, it fell in one hour 17 mm in Pauillac (Gironde) and more than 50 mm in Clion (Charente-Maritime) while the wind blew in gusts reaching 112 km / h in Angoulême and Cognac (Charente), 109 km/h at Cap-Ferret (Gironde) and 105 km/h at Mérignac, near Bordeaux.

According to the forecaster, another “stormy system is circulating from the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, going up towards the south-east of the Landes and the Gers, with heavy showers and strong gusts of wind”.

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