Europe 1 with AFP 11:34 a.m., July 20, 2022
Orange vigilance for heat waves is maintained Wednesday morning in 14 departments, in Alsace and Center-East, announced Météo-France, which also issued orange vigilance for thunderstorms in 16 departments ranging from Alsace Lorraine to Franche-Comté and the center east.
The weather is stormy in the northeast of the country and still hot on the eastern side.
Orange vigilance for heat waves is maintained Wednesday morning in 14 departments, in Alsace and in the Center-East, announced Météo-France in its midday bulletin.
Météo-France has also issued an orange vigilance for thunderstorms in 16 departments ranging from Alsace Lorraine to Franche-Comté and the center-east.
Overall, the weather is stormy in the northeast of the country and still hot on the eastern side.
This Wednesday, from Normandy and the Hauts de France, to the Paris region, the Centre-Val de Loire and as far as Champagne-Ardennes, the weather remains very cloudy, the showers are quite frequent and often stormy, especially on the heights of France.
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Over the afternoon, this disturbed weather extends to Lorraine, Alsace, Franche-Comté and Rhône-Alpes where the storms locally take on a violent character with hail and gusts of wind up to at the start of the night.
From Brittany to Pays-de-Loire, Poitou and up to the north of Auvergne, there too clouds and showers become scarce at midday and sunny spells become wider and wider as the afternoon progresses. midday.
On the South-West, in the afternoon, beautiful clearings develop between the Loire and the Garonne, they are more timid near the Pyrenees and on Brittany.
25 to 29 degrees in general
From Languedoc to the Alps, Franche-Comté to Alsace, after fine clearings, the sky becomes threatening on the relief in the afternoon with a risk of sometimes stormy showers on the Alpine massif.
The tramontana rises over Roussillon during the day.
The PACA region and Corsica benefit from maximum sunshine, at the cost of high temperatures.
Maximum temperatures are falling everywhere except in the southeastern quarter where they still reach 34 to 38 degrees.
We expect 25 to 29 degrees in general, no more than 22 to 26 degrees from the coasts of the Channel to Brittany, but 30 to 34 degrees from Roussillon to the north of Rhône-Alpes and to the east of Lorraine, the Franche-Comté and in the plain of Alsace.
For Thursday, Météo-France predicts drier weather across the country and hot weather in the south.