Weather: five departments in orange vigilance for heatwave and thunderstorms

Five departments in the South-East are kept on alert orange heatwave and / or thunderstorms until Saturday 10 a.m., Météo-France announced in a bulletin published shortly after midnight.

The five departments are Ardèche, Drôme, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes and Var.

Heat wave episode until Sunday

In these departments, "minimum temperatures on Friday will generally be around 19 to 22 degrees, or 4 to 5 degrees above seasonal norms, and sometimes even higher on the Côte d'Azur, around from 23 to 26 degrees ", warns Météo-France. As for maximum temperatures, they will often be between 36 and 39 degrees, even reaching 40 degrees in Provence, according to the agency. "It should start to drop a little bit in the afternoon of Sunday", however predicted in a press point Frédéric Nathan of Météo-France, assuring that this heatwave was "not exceptional as we could live in 2019 ".

This heatwave episode, even if it is not extreme, will continue until Sunday, according to Météo France. In the rest of the country, the day begins under the clouds in the South-West. Beautiful clearings manage to develop over the morning. The sky remains very blue on a western half during the day, apart from the Breton point on the Channel coast where the clouds are more numerous. From the Massif Central to the Alps and Jura, some showers resist in the morning. In the afternoon, the sky is changeable. Thunderstorms started, but they were limited to the relief.