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Weather: six departments placed on orange alert, violent storms and heavy rains in the south

2022-08-16T16:16:41.134Z


Violent thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rainfall will break this Tuesday evening in the south of France.


Intense rains and powerful thunderstorms are expected from this Tuesday at the end of the day, in the south-east of the country, notes the Weather Channel in its daily press release.

These rainy and stormy events, correlated with a slowly evolving depression between the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean, should last until Wednesday evening.

On the Mediterranean side, storms are likely to be violent because of the high water temperature.

Thus, the Weather Channel placed six departments on orange alert:

Aude

,

Aveyron

,

Gard

,

Hérault

,

Lozère

and

Tarn

.

Several departments are experiencing a significant risk of thunderstorms: Allier, Ardèche, Ariège, Bouches-du-Rhône, Cantal, Corrèze, Creuse, Haute-Garonne, Loire, Haute-Loire , Lot, Puy-de-Dôme, Pyrénées-Orientales and Tarn-et-Garonne.

The weather in your area

From

Occitania

to the

Massif Central,

violent storms, accompanied by gusts of 100km / h and hailstorms, are breaking out this Tuesday.

They are expected to reach the

Rhone

Valley and the

PACA

region on Wednesday.

In the

Cévennes

, watch out for floods, floods and heavy rainfall.

Torrents and rivers could come out of their beds.

The rains that fell in 48 hours should represent three weeks of precipitation.

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In

Languedoc-Roussillon,

waves of 1m50 to 2 meters are likely.

Static thunderstorms will break out around 6 p.m. accompanied by hailstorms.

In

Hérault, Aveyron

and

Lozère

, rain accumulations reaching 50 to 80mm will be present locally as well as gusts of wind up to 100 km / h.

A lull arrives around 2 a.m. Wednesday on the storm front: they will disperse, losing intensity in all the regions concerned.

However, some stormy rains will continue in the Cévennes departments as well as in

New Aquitaine.

* The Weather Channel belongs to the Figaro group.

Source: lefigaro

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