The weather this Tuesday will be dominated by a strong stormy degradation around the Gulf of Lion, with five departments placed in storm orange vigilance by Météo-France.

The departments concerned are Tarn, Aveyron and Aude from 4 p.m., then Hérault and Gard from 6 p.m., according to the first morning bulletin from Météo-France.

The stormy degradation will take place in the south-west of the country during the morning.

The storms will become more violent during the afternoon in the south of the Massif-Central (Tarn and Aveyron) as well as in the Aude, according to Météo-France.

These storms will be accompanied by strong electrical activity, heavy hailstorms and heavy accumulations of precipitation.

Bonus gusts of wind and a restless night

Local accumulations of 20 to 40 mm are expected in less than an hour.

Wind gusts around 80 to 100 km/h may occur.

These thunderstorms are expected to subside in the evening.

Over the rest of western Occitania, locally strong thunderstorms could break out during the afternoon, then again in the evening and first part of the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.

In Languedoc, at the end of the afternoon, the storms will spread towards Hérault and Gard.

Rainfall intensities will be very high, reaching 80 millimeters in a very short time.

We can locally exceed 100 to 120 millimeters.

The storms will also be accompanied by violent phenomena, very strong gusts, hail and marked electrical activity.

Eddy phenomena, waterspouts, or even tornadoes could also occur.

In the second part of the night, it will be necessary to monitor the shift towards the PACA region of this stormy system.

Vigilance may evolve accordingly, warns Météo France.

In Occitania, locally strong thunderstorms could break out during the afternoon, then again in the evening and first part of the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.

Forget the full sun on the country

The weather will also be variable in the west.

From the beginning of the morning, locally stormy showers will circulate in Brittany, and on the Atlantic coast, going up from the Basque coasts towards the Vendée.

They will gradually reach all of New Aquitaine, Pays de la Loire, Centre-Val de Loire and Normandy.

In the afternoon, clearings will return through the Aquitaine coastal departments, while the stormy degradation will extend towards the east.

A few stormy showers will spread towards Ile de France and Hauts-de-France.

The wind in the Autan area and in the southern sector from the Gulf of Lion to the Rhone Valley will blow moderately.

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