13 departments on orange alert to thunderstorms

Météo France placed 13 departments on orange vigilance for storms this Sunday morning. Stormy episodes will start in the early afternoon in Auvergne before moving to the south-west and will go up towards the Center-Val-de-Loire at the end of the day.

The departments concerned are: Gironde, Charente, Vienne, Haute Vienne, Dordogne, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Corrèze, Creuse, Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal, Haute-Loire and Loire.

Wind gusts and hailstorms

“_A stormy episode not exceptional for the season but which can generate strong gusts and hailstorms”, specifies Météo France. Vigilance is for now maintained until 4 p.m.

Heat records for a month of May were again broken in several places yesterday, in particular 34.4°C in Albi, 32.4°C in Mende or 31.7°C in Aurillac.


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