Thunderstorm warning: 24 departments placed on alert

“Storm alert: 24 departments departments placed on alert”

Météo-France has placed a large part of the north of the country on orange alert for storms this Wednesday late afternoon. The forecast.

All of Ile-de-France, but also the Ardennes, Marne, Aube, Haute-Marne, Eure, Seine-Maritime, Orne, Oise, Aisne, Eure-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret, Cher, Yonne, Nièvre and Côte-d'Or were placed on orange alert this Wednesday, July 31. Storms are indeed expected to break out in the late afternoon and evening, “in a disorderly manner”, Météo-France specifies in its bulletin.

Concretely, between 20 and 40 mm of rain could fall in an hour, “sometimes more”, warns the meteorological service, which warns that “strong electrical activity, locally hail, and wind gusts of around 70 to 90 km/h locally more” are also on the agenda. The storms are expected to continue until late at night. For the time being, the orange alert runs until 3am Thursday. 

A first stormy episode Tuesday evening

Tuesday evening, a dozen departments had already started working. été placed on alert for violent thunderstorms. If no victims are present, deplore à following the stormy episode, some damage is still possible. deplore, especially flooding of homes. Images and videos on X also show the violence of the storms and the intensity of the storms. rains and winds.

In Seine-Maritime, there are the municipalities of Bois-d'Ennebourg and Martainville-Épreville, but also Yerville and Bois-l'& ;Eacute;bishop, who were é the most affected, report our colleagues at Actu, with 44 homes flooded. L'Orléanais was also' assigned due to strong winds and hail. Flooding of homes in the Puiseaux sector, in Pithiverais, kept the firefighters busy at the end of the night, we can read on the site La Central Republic.