Weather: orange alert for thunderstorms, all of New Aquitaine concerned – South West

Around 7 p.m., these storms will first form over New Aquitaine, western Occitania and Poitou-Charentes. They will then go up towards the Loire and the Paris basin in the night. These strong storms may be locally accompanied by gusts of wind between 80km / h and more than 100 km / h, heavy rainfall, even violent hail, according to the French Observatory of tornadoes and violent thunderstorms Keraunos. Intense rainfall accumulations are announced, occasionally reaching 30 to 50 mm, locally 60 mm, sometimes in less than an hour. A stormy weekTuesday, new storms are expected during the day over a large central part of the country. These spare the Mediterranean rim, the approaches to the English Channel and the far north of the country. in the storm. The warm air will slowly recede towards southern Europe. But the temperatures, although falling, will remain high in the east of the country, where 11 departments were still on heat wave orange vigilance on Monday. However, the mercury will eventually return to seasonal values ​​in the second part of the week.