Storms: Hérault and Gard still on orange alert, how will the phenomenon evolve this Wednesday? – Free lunch

Météo France maintains this Wednesday, September 14 6 departments in orange vigilance to thunderstorms and adds the Var. The stormy degradation should shift and give rise to new accumulations. We take stock of what awaits us. While rains and thunderstorms have already fallen at the end of the night, in particular on the Hérault and the Gard, a new salvo could occur during the day on Wednesday. At the start of the morning, the vigilance services added the Var to the six departments already on orange vigilance, bringing to 7 the number of departments monitored due to storms. Météo France is expecting potentially violent phenomena, particularly in terms of cumulative rain which could prove to be substantial. Beware of strong accumulations On the two departments in orange located in Occitania, a temporary lull could well be felt. “The stormy rains will shift quickly towards Drôme, Vaucluse and Bouches-du-Rhône this morning”, indicates Météo France which forecasts “accumulations expected with this first passage are of the order of 30 to 50 mm in one at two o’clock”. But the lull could be short-lived and a “new stormy wave is expected from midday on the departments placed in orange vigilance, more particularly around the Rhône valley this time, which can locally give very heavy precipitation of the order of 70 to 100 mm in a short time”. Calm then possible resurgence of storms Beware of violent phenomena because “strong gusts may be observed locally”, even if it is especially heavy precipitation that you will have to be careful of. For this Wednesday afternoon, the Weather Channel also indicates that “instability will increase again and localized, but sometimes strong, thunderstorms may occur in the northern and eastern regions”. As for the departments placed in orange vigilance, “the heavy stormy rains of Languedoc and the Cévennes will gradually shift towards the Alps. Some heavy stormy showers may affect Provence, but they will circulate quite quickly”.