The scorching temperatures will begin to drop sharply on Friday August 25, giving way to a stormy wave over three quarters of France, with the exception of the west. The red heatwave alert level was lifted at 6 a.m. for the 17 departments on red alert. Meteo France placed 43 departments on orange alert for storms and/or heat waves. Follow our live the latest weather information.
Heatwave alert for the South-East quarter. The departments concerned by orange vigilance in the heat wave are: Ain, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardèche, Aude, Bouches-du-Rhône, Haute-Corse, Drôme, Gard, Hérault, Isère, Loire, Haute-Loire, Pyrénées-Orientales, Rhône, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Var, Vaucluse. Andorra is also targeted.
Vigilance to thunderstorms in the Drôme in the North. The departments concerned by orange thunderstorm vigilance are: Ain, Aisne, Allier, Ardèche, Ardennes, Aube, Côte-d’Or, Doubs, Drôme, Isère , Jura, Loire, Haute-Loire, Marne, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Nièvre, Nord, Oise, Puy-de-Dôme, the Bas-Rhin, the Haut-Rhin, the Rhône, the Haute-Saône, the Saône-et-Loire, the Vosges, the Yonne, the Territoire de Belfort.
Thunderstorms “sometimes violent”. “A new stormy wave will be organized in the afternoon of Friday on Auvergne then reach the Rhône valley, the Lyon region, Burgundy and the north-east of the country”according to Meteo France. “The storms will sometimes be violent. They can give intense rain (up to 50 to 60 mm in a short time), hailstorms and very strong gusts of wind (around 100 km / h)”warned the same source.
Temperature records broken. Thermometers continued Thursday to smash records, with 42.9° C in Mirande (Gers), 42.5° C in Montauban and Agen, 41.4° C in Lyon… “We are on a series of three hottest days recorded after August 15 across France“, said Thursday to AFP Lauriane Batté, climatologist within Météo-France.