Caution, always.
While the weather on Wednesday still looks unstable in several regions, the sky remaining threatening with showers and thunderstorms, especially in the center-west of the country, Météo France continues to place 15 departments on orange alert: nine for a high risk thunderstorms and six others because of the heat wave, which is therefore coming to an end.
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The nine departments in orange vigilance for storms were already the day before, and during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, Charente-Maritime and the north of Gironde were thus affected by heavy rains (20 to 30 mm / h) associated with hailstorms.
This type of phenomenon, sometimes very violent in places, hit central and eastern France on Tuesday, causing a lot of damage.
This stormy wave now concerns all the departments of western Aquitaine as well as the departments of the Poitou-Charentes region.
This phenomenon will then go up to the north and concerns Haute-Vienne and Creuse in the early morning.
A lull is then expected in the middle of the morning even if these storms can still persist in Haute-Vienne and Creuse, details Météo France in its bulletin published at six o'clock.
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On the coastal edge of Languedoc-Roussillon and the south-east, the sky will be veiled to very cloudy with some passing showers on the PACA in particular.
Over the rest of the country, the sky will remain threatening with showers and a risk of thunderstorms.
Stormy activity could still be strong locally with a risk of hail and heavy rains in a short time, especially in the center-west on Wednesday morning.
This risk will generalize in the afternoon.
Only the Atlantic coast, from the Vendée to the Aquitaine coast, will find a little calmer weather with more spaced out showers and more clearings.
Towards the end of the heat wave
Regarding the very early heatwave episode that hit France in recent days, it is coming to an end precisely Météo France, which thinks to raise the orange vigilance on the last departments concerned in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, in the Lyon region, temperatures at 5 a.m. were still between 17 and 22 degrees.
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Aquaboulevard stormed during the heat wave in Paris
These heats, certainly attenuated, will therefore continue in part of Rhône-Alpes, Saône-et-Loire and Jura.
The maximum temperatures under shelter will remain very high in the afternoon in Rhône-Alpes, between 33°C and 37°C, apart from thunderstorms.
In addition, the maximum temperatures will be between 20 and 25 degrees near the Channel and on the Atlantic coast, between 26 and 28 in general on the rest of the country.
It will be less hot on the eastern flank with more locally 28 to 30 degrees, or even 31/32 in the average Rhône valley.
