The wind will blow across the north of the country. Nineteen departments are on orange alert on Thursday. Two departments are also placed on alert for rain-flooding.
“Heavy rain and strong gusts of west wind on Thursday over a large part of the country”, summarizes Météo-France in its bulletin this Wednesday evening. In detail, no less than 21 departments are placed on orange alert. The majority of them, all located in the north-west of France, from Hauts-de-France to Île-de-France, via Normandy and Eure-et-Loir, are in watch out for wind. An alert planned between noon and 9 p.m. The departments concerned are: Pas-de-Calais, Nord, Somme, Aisne, Seine-Maritime, Oise, Eure, Val-d’Oise, Yvelines, Seine-et- Marne, Essonne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Paris, Eure-et-Loir, Calvados, Orne and Manche.
In its bulletin, Météo-France specifies that wind gusts could reach “up to 90 to 100 km/h inland, sometimes 110 km/h”, while on the coasts, “gusts [pourront] reach 120 km/h”. Note that with the exception of the Mediterranean rim, almost the entire rest of the country will be affected by a yellow wind warning.
An orange rain-flood alert was also triggered by Météo-France on Wednesday. It concerns only two departments, located in the West: Vendée and Deux-Sèvres. The alert runs from midnight to 4 p.m. this Thursday. “Although marked, this episode of rain does not seem exceptional,” specifies Météo-France. Over the episode, accumulations reaching “30 to 50 millimeters, locally up to 60 millimeters” are expected. “The accumulations observed in 24 hours will correspond to a little less than the monthly accumulation usually observed in this season”, however tempers Météo-France.