Intense thunderstorms and heavy rains have broken out over much of France since Tuesday evening.
After the torrential rains that fell in Paris, the southeast was not spared.
On social networks, videos captured early this Wednesday morning show torrents of water in the streets of Toulon, hailstorms in Hyères and the Old Port of Marseille under water.
The Var and the Bouches-du-Rhône were placed on orange rain-flood and thunderstorm vigilance until 10 p.m. this Wednesday.
No swimming
After this intense stormy episode, various municipalities decided to close access to the beaches and to prohibit swimming.
As is the case in Hyères and Bandol.
Emmanuel Macron's trip to Bormes-les-Mimosas scheduled for the same day, to commemorate the Liberation of the village, had to be postponed until Friday, due to bad weather.
In total, thirteen departments were placed on Wednesday afternoon in orange vigilance due to the risk of violent storms, “in particular in the Lyon region and in Pas-de-Calais”, announced Météo-France.
Vigilance now extended to the departments of Ain, Isère, Rhône and Haute-Savoie, as well as Pas-de-Calais, threatened by intense rainfall under potentially stationary storms.