The heat will persist this Wednesday from Lyonnais to Provence. Five departments are thus still placed in heat wave orange vigilance, while the storms will shift from the center to the northeast, announces Météo-France.
The departments in heat wave orange vigilance remain Ain, Rhône, Isère, Savoie and Haute-Savoie. Maximums can reach 35-37°C there, occasionally a little higher in the Rhône Valley, Alpine valleys, and in the interior of the Mediterranean South.
Thunderstorms that can be accompanied by strong gusts
Elsewhere, the thunderstorms, which arrived on Tuesday from the Aquitaine coast, will spread at daybreak as far as Limousin, and will shift during the morning towards the north of Auvergne, Burgundy and Champagne and then spread the afternoon on Lorraine and Alsace. They will be able to give good accumulations of precipitation and strong gusts of wind.
The clouds present in the morning on the Pyrenean foothills, the Channel coasts and the Gulf of Lion will break up little by little, the sky becoming variable over the whole country, divided between cloudy periods and clearings, clearer on the south-east quarter. East. Note a low risk of thunderstorms over the Pyrenees in the afternoon, over the Massif Central in the evening.
Minimum temperatures will vary from 11 to 13 degrees on the Channel coasts to 15 to 18 degrees elsewhere, 19 to 21 in the Center East, the Mediterranean arc, 22 to 23 in Corsica. The maximum will be around 19 to 21 degrees on the Channel coast, from 26 to 33 in the interior, from 36 to 37 from Provence to Lyonnais.