Bad weather alert: the Var will be placed on orange wave-submersion alert Thursday morning, from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m., due to a strong southwest wind over the Mediterranean basin, Météo France announced on Wednesday.
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Particularly concerned are “the vulnerable areas of the west of the Var”, towards Toulon, said the meteorological institute.
For Wednesday, only Isère remains impacted until 1 p.m. by the orange vigilance for snow-ice, now lifted for the Loire and Haute-Loire, according to the latest Météo France bulletin.
Strong winds expected in the West
The weather will also be disrupted in the west of the country.
A rainy front will sweep across Brittany then the Atlantic coast in the morning, will stretch from Normandy to the South-West at midday, before fading away in the afternoon, shifting from Hauts-de-France to in Occitania.
Behind, the sky will remain cloudy over regions bordering the ocean, with a few showers in the northwest.
“In connection with the Nelson depression, an episode of violent winds is expected in the west of the country” on Thursday, Météo France warned, and a worsening of the level of wind vigilance is possible in certain coastal departments, accompanied by a threat of wave-submersion vigilance at orange level in Loire-Atlantique for the evening high seas.