Whereas Belgium has been placed on yellow alert, in view of the bad weather that will hit our country in the evening, France has already been experiencing strong storms since this Saturday followingnoon. A large part of France is crossed by bad weather. Météo France has placed 65 departments on orange vigilance for 4 p.m. and warns once morest this stormy episode “requiring special vigilance due to a high risk of violent phenomena”.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin also called for caution.
From the north to the south west of France, the inhabitants are subject to violent phenomena. In Paris, where the storm is brewing, the Eiffel Tower was struck by lightning, and the concerts of the We Love Green festival had to be canceled this Saturday evening due to heavy rain.
Hail fell in Puy-de-Dôme and Eure. Residents filmed and photographed impressive hailstones.
The Southwest also suffers hail. In the Landes and Gers, hailstones of several centimeters fell on part of the Armagnac vineyard, local winegrowers and officials told AFP. If no injuries are to be deplored in the Landes, 4,500 homes have been deprived of electricity.
Météo-France had warned that sometimes violent thunderstorms were going to develop in the South-West and progress towards the north and east of the country, accompanied by intense rains (locally 40 to 60 mm in a short time), gusts of wind and hail, particularly in the South-West and the Massif Central.
In Brittany, the region most affected by bad weather, it rained the equivalent of three weeks of precipitation this Saturday, reports BFM TV. In fact, the lightning lit up the sky both in Brittany and in Centre-Val de Loire, Normandy.
On the National Estate of Chambord (Loir-et-Cher), 30,000 unit scouts from France gathered for the Pentecost weekend had to be sheltered, including a third inside the castle. -same.
