Ten departments placed on orange flood alert

The sky will remain disturbed in the coming hours. Tuesday morning, it will rain from the north of New Aquitaine to a large quarter northeast, while in Brittany, and gradually as far as Normandy and Poitou-Charentes, some clearings will reappear, interspersed with showers with wind from southwest, according to Météo-France forecasts.

The orange vigilance for rain-flood which had been maintained in Isère until midnight was lifted on the evening of Monday but will continue on Tuesday in Savoie and Haute-Savoie. On the other hand, the Lot department was added to the list of departments on orange flood alert, which also includes Charente, Charente-Maritime, Corrèze, Dordogne, Gironde, Isère, Savoie, Haute-Savoie and Deux-Sèvres.

Mild temperatures

In the afternoon on Tuesday, the unstable weather will spread over a wider north-western half to the north of Aquitaine, the Center and the Benelux: showers will be frequent and sometimes marked, locally stormy, particularly in the coastal departments .

The southwest wind will become noticeable throughout the north and may blow in gusts of 60 to 80 km/h as the showers pass. The area of ​​more regular rain will move into the South-West and linger over Auvergne, northern Rhône-Alpes, Franche-Comté and the Vosges. The accumulations will be significant in the eastern massifs and in particular in the northern Alps. Snow will fall at altitude above 2,200 m.

In the Mediterranean regions, except for some morning fog in the lower Rhône valley, some temporary gray weather on the beaches of the Alpes-Maritimes and in the west of Corsica, the weather will be very sunny. In Corsica, the wind will blow more moderately than the day before. Temperatures will remain very mild. In the early morning, it will already be 6 to 8 degrees from the north of the Seine to the Grand Est, 8 to 12 degrees elsewhere. During the day, the maximums will reach 12 to 16 degrees in general, 16 to 18 to locally 20 degrees around the Pyrenees and in the Mediterranean regions.


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