Bad weather: the Var on orange wave-submersion alert on Thursday

Europe 1 with AFP 11:06 a.m., March 27, 2024

The Var department will be placed on orange wave-submersion alert Thursday morning, from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m., due to a strong southwest wind over the Mediterranean basin, Météo-France announced on Wednesday. Particularly concerned are “the vulnerable areas of the west of the Var”, towards Toulon, said the meteorological institute. For Wednesday, only Isère remains affected until 1 p.m. by the orange vigilance for snow-ice, now lifted for the Loire and Haute-Loire, according to the latest Météo France bulletin.

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“Precipitation is weakening in the west of Auvergne. It remains sustained from the east of the Massif Central to the Alps,” explained the weather organization, specifying that “the rain-snow limit is located around 600 m altitude in the east of Haute-Loire and the south of the Loire". The weather will also be disrupted in the west of the country. A rainy front will sweep across Brittany then the Atlantic coast in the morning, will stretch from Normandy to the South-West at midday, before fading away in the afternoon, shifting from Hauts-de-France to in Occitania. Behind, the sky will remain cloudy over regions bordering the ocean, with a few showers in the northwest. 

The west of the country swept by violent winds 

Minimum temperatures on Wednesday will range from 3 to 6 degrees in general across the country, around 0 degrees in the Massif Central and the Alps, and from 7 to 10 degrees along the Mediterranean. The maximums will vary between 10 and 14 degrees in the northern half, the Massif Central and the Alps, and between 14 and 18 degrees from Provence to the South-West. At the end of the afternoon, further moderate rain will affect Brittany, then the Aquitaine coast in the evening with local thunderstorms and a fairly strong westerly wind, up to 100 km/h near the coast.

“In connection with the Nelson depression, an episode of violent winds is expected in the west of the country” on Thursday, Météo France warned, and a worsening of the level of wind vigilance is possible in certain coastal departments, accompanied by a threat of wave-submersion vigilance at orange level in Loire-Atlantique for the evening high seas.