Extreme caution.
Until then placed on yellow vigilance for thunderstorms, Corsica has just turned orange this Thursday morning, due to a sudden and violent episode that occurred shortly after 8 a.m.
Météo France, which evokes "violent gusts of wind, intense lightning, and strong rainy activity giving rise to substantial accumulations in a short time" has thus placed the Ile-de-beauté on alert for violent storms.
🔶 3 dpts in #vigilanceOrange
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— VigiMeteoFrance (@VigiMeteoFrance) August 18, 2022
The Pyrénées-Atlantiques, they remain concerned by an orange vigilance for a risk of rain-flooding.
A particularly organized line of strong #storms will approach Western #Corsica in the coming minutes.
Violent gusts of wind, intense lightning, and strong rainy activity giving rise to substantial accumulations in a short time are expected.
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— VigiMeteoFrance (@VigiMeteoFrance) August 18, 2022
The forecaster, who has already noted "an exceptional gust" of 224 km / h at the Marignana station (on an exposed part of the west coast) and another at 131 km / h in Ajaccio, anticipates winds that can blow "from 150 to 180 km/h km/h, occasionally a little more”.
