Weather: Storm and strong wind, 18 departments placed in orange vigilance – The Independent

Météo France has placed 20 departments from the Massif Central to Alsace on orange vigilance this Sunday with the risk of violent gusts, high rainfall and hail. The stormy phenomenon could lead to violent phenomena indicates Météo France in its bulletin this Sunday morning. The number of departments concerned has been raised from 18 to 20. Other departments such as Pyrénéés-Orientales, Gard and Hérault are on yellow alert. Associated with the Béatrice depression on the near Atlantic, locally stormy rains go up over the north-west of the country, from the Massif Central to the Jura, Alsace and Lorraine. During the afternoon, from 3 p.m., storm cells will develop in the departments with orange vigilance, initially in the westernmost departments. These potentially violent thunderstorms will be localized and will only affect limited geographical areas. Moreover, their chronology and location are still very uncertain at this stage. It is likely that in many places put on orange alert, the risk of thunderstorms does not materialize. But where storms will form, the conditions are met for them to give rise to intense phenomena justifying the passage to orange vigilance. The #weather offers us a textbook case, with a superb low pressure winding over the Atlantic. This roping is bringing #gentleness to France as well as violent thunderstorms in a tropical flow this Sunday! pic.twitter.com/O5QBLpsmWx— La Chaîne Météo (@lachainemeteo) October 23, 2022 These storms are likely to be accompanied by violent gusts of wind that can exceed 100 km/h, large hail and high precipitation intensities. Electrical activity may be temporarily strong. The risk of severe thunderstorms disappears overnight from Sunday to Monday. To read also: Weather: Who is Armand, this storm which will hit the south, from Portugal to the Pyrenees, in the coming days? To read also: Weather: record 31.4° in Biarritz and tropical night in Carcassonne, after the heat a rainy deterioration arrives Note that in the other departments in yellow vigilance Storm, the risk of violent storms is not excluded but weaker. On Brittany, the storms in the afternoon will reinforce the already strong wind with gusts in the interior then between 80 and 100 km / h.