Storm Isha is not expected to be as violent as its predecessors, but it has prompted Météo France to activate yellow vigilance for many departments in the north of the country.
This Sunday, 24 departments in the North-West are already affected by the yellow alert for wind.
There will be 41 on Tuesday for the same reason in the northern half of France.
Brittany, Normandy, Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France, Grand Est, northern Burgundy-Franche-Comté, but also Mayenne, Eure-et-Loir and Loire -Atlantic have been placed on yellow alert.
The Calvados prefecture, for example, warned its residents against the arrival of storm Isha.
“The wind will blow between 70 and 95 km/h this evening and tonight,” she specifies on X (ex-Twitter).
According to La Chaîne Météo, the depression only needed 36 hours to cross the Atlantic, witness to “the power of the jet stream” which drives this storm born off the Canadian island of Newfoundland.
Gusts of nearly 120 km/h
Still according to La Chaîne Météo, the winds are strengthening near the English Channel this Sunday evening.
Finistère is particularly affected with gusts reaching 100 km/h inland.
The fastest gust was reported at Barfleur, in Normandy, with 117 km/h.
The storm has already reached the United Kingdom and Ireland this Sunday evening, reports The Independent.
Gusts of more than 135 km/h have been measured.
Several flights and trains have been canceled.
At the beginning of November, Ciaran and Domingos had already hit France two days apart.
Météo France then placed many departments on orange alert.