A growing list. Drôme, Ardèche, Isère and Savoie are in turn placed in orange vigilance, Tuesday July 11, due to thunderstorms expected in the afternoon and in the evening. by Meteo France. These four departments join Ain, Allier, Aveyron, Bas-Rhin, Cantal, Côte-d’Or, Doubs, Haut-Rhin, Haute-Loire, Haute-Marne, Haute-Saône, Haute-Savoie, Jura, Loire, Lozère, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Moselle, Puy-de-Dôme, Rhône, Saône-et-Loire, Territory of Belfort, as well as the Vosges. SFollow our live.
“Particularly violent” thunderstorms expected. According to Meteo France, “potentially very violent storms will develop from Auvergne to the Lorraine plateau and Alsace”. “They move quickly towards the East and North-East during the afternoon and evening of Tuesday, sweeping the departments placed in orange vigilance. These violent storms evacuate towards Germany in the evening or at the beginning of night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
The SNCF adapts its traffic. Due to deteriorating weather conditions “very significantly”, the SNCF has decided to interrupt right now the circulation of TER “on different axes” from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Tuesday 11 July. The lines concerned are as follows: Lyon-Bourg-en-Bresse, Lyon-Paray-le-Monial, Saint-Etienne-Le Puy-en-Velay, Lyon-Macon, Lyon-Ambérieu, Lyon-Saint-Etienne, Lyon- Roanne, Saint-Etienne-Roanne, and Saint-Etienne-Montbrison.
Disturbances to come also on traffic in Burgundy-France-Comté and Alsace. In Bourgogne-France-Comté, the trains between Besançon and Saint-Amour, Morteau or Clerval have not run for 15 hours. Same thing for Dole-Vallorbe, Vesoul-Culmont and Paray-Montchanin. In Alsace, some lines will be interrupted at the end of the afternoon.
Nancy, Strasbourg and Dijon are closing their public gardens, parks and cemeteries. In the Alsatian city, the Saint-Jean fair must stop at 5 p.m. At Nancy, the green schoolyards have been closed since 3:30 p.m. In Dijon, other precipitation is expected for the end of the afternoon and the evening is reminiscent of France Bleu Bourgogne.
Nine departments placed in heat wave orange vigilance. In total, 25 departments are concerned by an orange alert, including the nine still placed on heat wave alert. These are Ain, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Côte-d’Or, Isère, Jura, Loire, Rhône and Saône-et-Loire.