Météo-France maintained Monday night vigilance orange 37 departments, due to an episode of locally-intense autumn storms that can cause intense and hail, and accompanied by strong winds, but raised its warning in nine departments of the West and the Atlantic facade already crossed by the weather.
The nine departments that are no longer subject to an orange vigilance are the Orne, Maine-et-Loire, Sarthe, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Gironde and Les Landes, according to bulletins of Météo-France broadcast at 19 hours.
Storms will reach the shores of the Mediterranean during the night
In its latest national bulletin, Météo-France warns that "locally violent thunderstorms are still developing this night from the Pyrenees and part of the Massif Central to the Hauts-de-France", and adds that they will reach the shores of the Mediterranean during the night ".
Météo-France said thunderstorms, arriving from the west of the country, "circulate a little faster than expected in the previous bulletin" broadcast at 16 hours. Heavy rainfall is expected "over a short period, between 20 and 30 mm may cause runoff, hail and especially violent gusts of wind, up to 110 km / h locally," warned Météo-France. On the shores of the Mediterranean, precipitation could "reach 30 to 50 mm or locally 80-90 mm" in one to three hours and strong gusts of wind will affect the Pyrenees, had also warned the weather forecast organization.
Météo-France recommends limiting travel
The departments still concerned by the orange vigilance are as follows: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Ardeche, Cher, Dordogne, Drome, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret, Haute-Vienne, Aisne, Aveyron, Bouches-du-Rhone, Corrèze, Eure, Gard, Hérault, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, North, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts-de-Calais de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Var, Seine-Maritime, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Somme, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Vaucluse, Essonne and Val-d'Oise.
Météo-France recommends limiting travel, taking care of falling trees and other objects and not intervening on roofs.