Météo France places five departments on orange alert from this Friday noon for the risk of strong winds, due to the passage of storm Diego. It is Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne and Charente-Maritime. Furthermore, Savoy remains on orange avalanche alert.
The weather will be very rough this Friday. Storm Diego arrives from the Atlantic coast, it will cross the country from east to west. The strongest winds will blow over part of Poitou-Charentes, northern Aquitaine, Berry, northern Limousin and the Massif Central as far as the Cévennes. Gusts of 80 to 100 km/h are expected inland, they will locally reach 110, even 120 km / h on the Charente coast, on the relief and certain valleys of Auvergne.
This situation is rather rare in April indicates Météo France From the Pays-de-la-Loire to the south of Paris, on the Grand-Est and the Sud-Ouest in the afternoon, the wind will blow between 70 and locally 90 km / h. Some snowfall are even possible between Normandy and the east of France. Of heavy rain are also planned from Franche Comté to the Alps. Heavy snowfall is also announced above 1800 meters in the northern Alps. In Corsica violent gusts are to be feared in the early morning on the relief and the north of the island.