Weather: damage on Sunday in the Loire and Haute-Loire, new storms this Monday

Thunderstorms once again caused damage in France on Sunday.

If they are on a smaller scale and their extent is smaller than what has sometimes happened since the end of spring, the departments of Loire and Haute-Loire have been particularly concerned.

Once again it was the hail that caused the most significant damage.

Damaged cars, affected furniture and roofs, partly lost crops: the images have been repeated in recent weeks.

Big hail storm in Haute-Loire 😱 hailstones of several centimeters… broken windows, damaged roofs, dented car bodies #thunderstorms pic.twitter.com/CQ08pmfejj

— Leo Chapuis (@leo_chapuis) ​​July 3, 2022

This video shows hail falling on a car parked in Saint-Chamond (Loire).

⛈ Violent hail storms are hitting the south of the Loire and are now reaching the south of Lyonnais.

Images from Saint-Chamond.

(© Olivier Dumas) pic.twitter.com/C0y3G33V0z

— Weather Express (@MeteoExpress) July 3, 2022

The weather channel explains that some flooding also took place "around Saint-Etienne" (Loire).

Accidents have also occurred “on the A47 motorway from Saint-Etienne towards Givors (Rhône)”.

According to Le Progrès, the Gier valley was particularly affected.

In addition to cars, roofs and garden furniture, fruit trees were damaged.

The cattle were brought to shelter in time.

Farmers fear seeing damage to their crops on Monday.

"Last day of storms in the south of the country"

This Monday, new thunderstorms are expected over a wide band from the southwest to the east of France.

Météo France places this part of the country on yellow alert (level 2 out of 4).

The meteorological organization evokes “high rainfall intensities as well as hail and strong gusts of wind in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in particular.

In addition, the storm cells can sink further south than the day before towards the lower Rhône valley and the Southern Alps”.

/Meteo France

In the Alpine regions, Keraunos, the French observatory for tornadoes and violent thunderstorms, evokes a risk of "supercells", that is to say massive storms with violent phenomena.

It warns against a risk of hail with a diameter greater than 2cm.

Keraunos specifies that this is the “last day of storms in the south of the country before a clear lull on the hail front”.