The violent summer storms which crossed part of France on Wednesday without causing major damage were spectacular in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, and again affected the Mediterranean arc in the evening.

Certain districts of Marseille have thus been transformed into paddling pools.

However, the situation is tending to improve.

The weather will still be stormy this Thursday in the East and near the Pyrenees, but with now only one department in orange rain-flood vigilance, the Pyrenees Atlantiques, according to Météo-France.

Hailstones in the north of Saint-Étienne

In the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, rain and hailstones hit the north of Saint-Étienne on Wednesday afternoon, causing traffic difficulties for cars and trains, with several tens of centimeters of water or hail. accumulated in certain sectors.

Wind gusts of more than 130 km / h were recorded by Météo-France and several buildings saw part of their roofs fly off, said Lieutenant-Colonel Florence Rabat, of SDIS 42. The south of Lyon has flooded, especially in the communes of Feyzin, where the chemical valley is located, and Saint-Germain Laval.

In the Mediterranean arc, already affected by summer thunderstorms overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, the Hérault again experienced thunderstorms in the early evening.

A cumulative rain of 123 millimeters was recorded in Lauroux, a village about sixty kilometers from Montpellier, said Météo-France.

The stormy line then shifted towards Nîmes then Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), further east, but without causing any significant disturbances.

Torrents of water in certain districts of Marseille

Around 9:30 p.m., the Gard firefighters assured that the storm had "passed" and that no significant damage had been reported.

The Vaucluse firefighters, for their part, received many calls in the evening from the Cavaillon sector, "for falling trees and water infiltration in houses".

In Marseille, lightning streaked the sky and the rain fell in a sustained manner around 9:30 p.m., with 35 mm of rain in less than 45 minutes, as well as in other parts of the department, “but no particular interventions or noticeable,” the firefighters said.

In the evening, torrents of water were noted in certain districts, as well as in Cassis, according to the newspaper

La Provence

, but without causing significant damage.

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