Thunderstorms will persist over much of the country this Friday.
But Météo France raised the orange alert (level 3 out of 4) for thunderstorms, however, maintaining a large part of the country in yellow vigilance (level 2 out of 4) for this reason.
Only the Rhône remains in orange, but due to an early heat wave episode for the season, without being exceptional in duration and intensity, specifies Météo-France.
Minimum late night temperatures were around 22 ° C to 23 ° C in the Lyon region.
This Friday, it can be up to 32 ° C to 35 ° C in the hottest of the day in this department.
🔶 1 deposit in #vigilanceOrange
Stay informed on https://t.co/rJ24zzDXpC pic.twitter.com/RN2uFGHhSb
- VigiMeteoFrance (@VigiMeteoFrance) June 18, 2021
Concerning thunderstorms, Keraunos, the French observatory for tornadoes and violent thunderstorms, warns against a "risk of strong thunderstorms on the reliefs of the Jura and the Vosges" in the afternoon.
Gusts of over 90 km / h are possible.
Elsewhere, thunderstorms will be moderate, with the exception of Hauts-de-France, where they will be more pronounced, especially in Flanders where "a whirlpool phenomenon
(of the tornado type)
is not excluded".
In addition, during the night of this Friday to Saturday, "new storms will approach the coast of Aquitaine as well as Charente-Maritime".
Here too gusts of around 100 km / h are possible.
Three injured and numerous disturbances in the South West
These bad weather deprived thousands of homes of electricity in Occitania on Thursday.
After having been up to 37,000 in all, France Bleu specifies that there are 15,000 left this Friday morning, that is to say a little more than 30,000 people.
Three people were injured as a result of thunderstorms, including a 3-year-old child in the head, after the car he was in was hit by a collapsed tree in Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe ( Tarn), details France blue.
These thunderstorms also caused flooding and damage.
Rainfall was therefore significant in the region of Limoux, in the Aude.
⛈ Thunderstorms cause flooding in the west of the Aude and the south of the Tarn.
Images of #Limoux where it fell 56.3 mm in 1 hour!
(video Christelle Guillebaud-Vigneau) pic.twitter.com/LKlifVbnMt
- Guillaume Séchet (@Meteovilles) June 17, 2021
The Toulouse agglomeration is also one of those which have been particularly affected.
⚡ The damage related to the powerful gusts under #thunderstorms is significant in Saint-Jean, north-east of the agglomeration of #Toulouse.
(Thierry Delarche video) pic.twitter.com/1gcVFMy89F
- Guillaume Séchet (@Meteovilles) June 17, 2021
During the night from Thursday to Friday, residents of Gironde, near Bordeaux, were victims of these floods.
An emergency accommodation center had to be opened in Artigues-près-Bordeaux, indicates civil protection.
🔴 #AideAuxPopulations
Following the #inondations in Gironde, opening of an emergency accommodation center in Artigues-près-Bordeaux.
The Civil Protection of Gironde is mobilized.
@ PrefAquitaine33 #Help
- Civil Protection of Gironde (@ Protec33) June 17, 2021
Transport is also disrupted due to these bad weather. Roads have been cut. This Friday morning, train traffic remains difficult on several axes. The SNCF lets it be known, for example, that in Occitania "the bad weather is disrupting several lines in the west of the region". To the east of the region, "traffic is interrupted on the Narbonne-Perpignan axis". In New Aquitaine, "the rains last night caused some difficulties in the circulation of your trains, mainly on the Bordeaux-Saintes, Bordeaux-Angoulême and # Bergerac-Périgueux axes".
