A stormy return. Twelve departments were placed on orange alert by Météo-France on Monday, mainly in the north of the country. This vigilance was put in place due to “risks of locally violent gusts” Monday afternoon and in the evening.
The twelve departments concerned are Loiret, Cher, Oise, Aisne, Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val -de-Marne and the Val-d’Oise. “In the middle of the afternoon, a stormy line is expected, which will form towards the Center-Val-de-Loire, to rise quickly and circulate towards Ile-de-France then Hauts-de-France”, indicates Météo-France in its midday bulletin.
These storms “will give marked temporary precipitation between 10 and 20mm, even 40mm in places, hail and marked electrical activity”. But it is “especially the risk of locally violent gusts which requires particular vigilance”, underlines the establishment, adding that “the most marked gusts are planned to give 80 to 110 km / h at peak”.
Most of the metropolis, with the exception of the south-east and the Atlantic coast from the Basque Country to the Vendée, is placed on yellow vigilance and “punctually virulent storm cells cannot be excluded”.