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The weather for Friday May 20: arid climate in the South and Center-East, thunderstorms in the North-West

2022-05-19T16:45:38.940Z


The weather remains very heavy and hot this Friday, with temperatures still very high in the South and in the Center-East, as well as still violent thunderstorms in the morning in the north-west.


The thunderstorms persist this Friday morning, between Pays de la Loire, Normandy, Île-de-France and Hauts-de-France, according to

La Chaîne Météo

*.

They are accompanied, for most of these regions, by brutal rainfall, making the roads very slippery.

For the central-eastern area of ​​the country, the heat is not abating and temperatures are still reaching record highs for the season.

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The storms will be due to high pressures, causing a wave of cold current in the north of France.

Strong gusts are also blowing at the border with Belgium.

Temperatures are high in the southeastern part of the country, in particular, while they are milder in the northwestern area, cooled by the stormy disturbance.

The weather in your area

In the

North-West

, the risk of thunderstorms reappears, between the Pays de la Loire and Normandy and is accompanied by heavy rainfall.

The sky is overcast in western Brittany, without storms.

The weather improves during the day, with the intermittent return of the sun.

The temperatures will however be milder in the afternoon, with between 20 and 23°C.

Between

Ile-de-France

and

Seine-Maritime

, violent thunderstorms break out in the morning, making the atmosphere heavy and tropical.

Rain falls locally, in the form of showers.

The risk of thunderstorm increases at midday, before giving way to the sun for the rest of the day.

If the temperatures are already high in the morning, they remain normal during the day, between 23 and 25°C.

In

Hauts-de-France

, the sky is cloudy in the morning and the weather is rather mild, before the storms break out around noon.

Heavy rainfall arrives suddenly from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., accentuated by a very powerful wind, particularly in Picardy and Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

At the end of the afternoon, the risk of thunderstorms fades as the deterioration moves towards Belgium, where they are more intense in the evening.

In the south of the

Loire

, the weather remains very summery and the sun dominates, despite a few clouds.

The temperatures do not decrease, and are already high at night and at daybreak.

In the Rhone valley, the south wind is very hot.

Temperatures fluctuate between 28 and 33°C in the Southwest.

As far as the Center-East and the plains in Alsace are concerned, the maximums reach 30 to 34°C, a record figure which concerns, for example, Clermont-Ferrand and Saint-Etienne.

A few thunderstorms can break out at high altitude in the evening, but the risk is lower in the rest of the region.

In the

South-East

, the wind blows hard on the coasts, and makes the temperatures more bearable.

On the other hand, they are very high inland, especially in the lower Rhone Valley, where they climb to 31 or even 34°C, reinforced by a peak sun.

*The Weather Channel is a property of the Figaro group.

Source: lefigaro

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