Météo-France has placed 19 departments on storm orange vigilance, from the South-West to the North-East. Three are also being tracked for rain flooding.
By Maeliss Innocenti for Le Point (with AFP)
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Metéo-France extends its vigilance. While ten departments were previously on orange alert for violent storms, the meteorological organization expanded the number of departments under surveillance in its latest bulletin. Nineteen departments are now monitored for this phenomenon, but three of them are also monitored for risks of rain and flooding.
The departments monitored for severe thunderstorms are as follows: Haute-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Gers, Lot-et-Garonne, Lot, Dordogne, Charente, Haute-Vienne, Corrèze, Creuse, Indre, Cher, Nièvre, Loiret, Yonne, Aube, Marne, Meuse and Ardennes.
Among these departments on alert, Loiret, Cher and Indre are also monitored for risks of rain and flooding.
Storms disrupt the Music Festival
Many concerts for the Fête de la Musique were canceled this Wednesday evening in cities such as Bordeaux or Clermont-Ferrand due to weather conditions on a diagonal linking the South-West to the North-East.
In Clermont-Ferrand or Bourges, concerts in the public space have been canceled due to forecasts requiring, according to Météo-France, “particular vigilance insofar as there is a risk of violent phenomena, heavy accumulations of rain in a short weather, hail, and locally strong gusts of wind”.
In Bordeaux, “several organizers prefer to cancel certain outdoor scenes, or move them indoors for security reasons”, informed the town hall in a press release, specifying that 11 of the 12 outdoor concerts were canceled. In Clermont-Ferrand, it is a risk of “thunderstorms, hail and gusts of wind at 65 km / h from 6 p.m.” which led the municipality to cancel all outdoor festivities.
Many cancellations concern New Aquitaine, with total bans decreed in Dax and Capbreton (Landes), Pau, Tarbes, and Lourdes (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), or partial in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne), Blaye (Gironde ) and Biarritz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques). In Tarn-et-Garonne, the department announced on Twitter the cancellation of the festivities in Montauban, the prefect advising all mayors and organizers to cancel the events.