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Thunderstorms: several departments in amber alert

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- By lefigaro.fr
- Update on 08/03/2015 at 20:01
- Published on 08/03/2015 at 13:18

Three departments are placed in orange alert Monday.

WEATHER - Severe thunderstorms are expected Monday night, from the Pyrenees to central Somalia.

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Seventeen southwestern departments of France, in the Pyrenees today Cher were placed in amber alert by Météo France , which provides strong rainstorms in these departments. The whole Atlantic coast to the Charente-Maritime is involved in alertness. These disturbances will spread to neighboring departments of central France. The orange alert, scheduled until 6 am Tuesday morning concerns the whole of the Limousin region and the following departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Cher, Dordogne, Gers, Indre, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, Tarn -and-Garonne, Vienna, Gironde, Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

At the same time late Monday afternoon, Météo Consult * placed only three departments in vigilance - the Gironde, Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques. were placed Monday in orange alert Météo France and Météo Consult *.

A stormy degradation should break out in the next few hours in these departments due to meet a cold front air from the Atlantic and high temperatures in the afternoon. Eleven other departments of the great Southwest quarter are also threatened.

According to Meteo France, the storms, which go back to Spain, "may be very violent" and could be accompanied by "intense rains giving accumulations of 20 to 30 millimeters or 50 millimeters in one to three hours." Hail, strong winds and electrical activity are not excluded.

Hail expected locally

By late afternoon on Monday, the first storm should burst in the departments placed on alert. They will extend evening to Limousin and Poitou-Charentes region. Thunderstorms marked by intense electrical activity and "locally" by heavy rainfall."Gusts of wind up to 80-90 km / h could even occur," said Meteo Consult. Weather services call for greater caution for people living in the areas concerned.

Météo France provides that these storms will extend to the Loire, in early night. These storms will lose intensity during the night progessant eastward toward Auvergne and Burgundy where they advertise less virulent.

In the departments placed in orange alert, a fire by lightning because of still very dry soils also expressed. Last week, the department of Gironde had already faced with large-scale fires. 340 hectares of forest went up in smoke when several fires .

* Weather Consult is a group company of Figaro