The Aurora depression, which arrived from the near Atlantic, gave "stormy winds" overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, October 21 over the northern half of the country, reports
La Chaîne Météo *
.
The strongest gusts of wind affected the Normandy coast up to 175 km / h overnight in Fécamp.
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This Thursday, a
"rainy and windy disturbance"
is nevertheless expected over a good northern half of the country.
The Weather Channel
has placed four departments on orange vigilance for “violent winds”: Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse and Moselle.
Météo France adds the Val-d'Oise, Yvevlines, Essonne, Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Aisne and Ardennes.
The locally violent night gale in Haute-Normandie and south of Picardy shifts towards the Paris region, Champagne and the Ardennes.
At 6 a.m., the Weather Channel observed stormy winds from Ile-de-France to the northeast with 109 km / h in Paris 114 km / h at Châlons-en-Champagne and Blesmes (Aisne), 119 km / h at Chouilly (Marne) and up to 170 km / h on the Vosges ridges at Markstein.
In Normandy, the storm calmed down after very violent gusts of wind (122 km / h in Rouen, 125 km / h in Deauville, 150 km / h in Le Havre and 175 km / h in Fécamp).
In the Paris region, RER A traffic is also interrupted between Nanterre-Préfecture and Cergy-Le Haut / Poissy "
due to weather conditions
".
The traffic, which is
“estimated”
to
resume
at 8 am, is disrupted on the rest of the line.
The skies will nevertheless remain very busy over most areas for most of the day.
Short periods of clearing will alternate with frequent cloudy periods carrying showers, more numerous over the northern half of the country.
Only the Mediterranean regions, from the Languedoc-Roussillon coast to the PACA region will remain sunny.
The westerly wind remains very present over a northern half of the country with gusts reaching 70 to 80 km / h.
Vigilance yellow waves-submersion
At daybreak, the thermometer displays 8 to 16 degrees from the Belgian borders to the Mediterranean shore.
The maximums are generally between 14 and 19 degrees, close to 21 to 23 towards the Big Blue and Corsica.
A yellow wave-submersion vigilance is also marked out for Finistère, Morbihan and Seine-Maritime due to worsening sea conditions and rising sea levels.
* The Weather Channel is a company of the Figaro group.