Seventeen departments are placed on orange alert by the weather channel after a deep depression appeared last night in northern France.
The weather conditions continue to deteriorate on Monday, with the evolution of the Gérard storm which has been sweeping the north of the country since Sunday evening. The weather channel* placed seventeen departments on orange alert for high winds (Calvados, Charente-Maritime, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Finistère, Gironde, Ille-et-Vilaine, Loir-et-Cher, Loire-Atlantique, Loiret, Manche , Mayenne, Morbihan, Orne, Sarthe, Vendée and Yonne) and two departments with heavy rain (Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques).
Heavy rain is forecast for the southwest and heavy snowfall in the mountains. The wind is blowing hard all over the territory. The novelty is the drop in temperatures which pass below normal for the season.
Orange alert in the West for high winds
Monday morning, storm Gérard is located in Normandy and is progressing rapidly inland. The winds around its center are strong with stormy gusts. By the sea, the blast can reach 120 km/h. This gale will rise from Burgundy to the south of Hauts-de-France, with very strong winds, up to 90 km / h in gusts inland.
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In the morning the wind will still blow very strongly north of the Seine with gusts close to 80 to 90 km / h, up to 110 km / h in the Vosges.
From Monday 3 p.m., the winds will weaken. The lull will be general, but short-lived, as a new secondary low will deepen this time over the Bay of Biscay on Monday evening. It will cause, during the night of Monday to Tuesday and Tuesday morning, another strong gale with the threat of stormy gusts at more than 110 km / h in the lands of the Aquitaine basin to the south of the Massif Central and towards the Languedoc-Roussillon, with possible peaks at 140 km / h by the sea.
The weather in your area
Over a large southwest quarter, the rains are frequent and abundant. Heavy rainfall accumulations can cause occasional flooding. In the mountains, be careful because of the heavy snowfall on the Massif Central and the Pyrenees from 700 to 1000 meters above sea level with a risk of snowdrifts forming which can make access to ski resorts very complicated. In the evening, the arrival of the depression by the Bay of Biscay causes a strengthening of the wind with stormy gusts in the night from Monday to Tuesday.
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Of the Vosges to the Alps, the conditions are strongly degraded with a lot of snow from 600 to 800 meters. Be careful, because with the very strong wind at nearly 100 km/h blowing at altitude, access to the ski resorts will be very difficult.
Over a large northern half of the country, the weather is cold and often gray and unstable with showers, sometimes mixed with sleet. The wind blows very strong in the early morning up to 100 km / h, before weakening. The thinnings are more generous in the Pays de la Loire in the afternoon.
Near the Mediterranean, the weather is unstable with some showers and strong winds in the form of mistral, tramontana and strong westerly winds in Corsica at nearly 90 to 100 km/h where it rains a lot.
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