2023-09-11 11:56:32
A (small) wave of coolness, after the heat records broken this weekend. The weather this Monday will be marked by thunderstorms which will start in the west of the country, distancing the record temperatures observed in France during the weekend. Meteo France thus placed 9 departments in the south-west of the country on “storm” alert. These are Gironde, Dordogne, Lot, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Gers, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées.
On the Atlantic coast, Normandy and Hauts-de-France, the sky will be chaotic in the morning, after the storms at night. Stormy showers will circulate in places, interspersed with calms. In the afternoon, the sky will remain heavy over the western half of the country, while thunderstorms will resume on the Limousin side but also in the Basque Country.
These storms will sometimes be strong, with a risk of small to medium hail and wind gusts between 60 and 80 km/h, warns Météo France. The average temperature assessed in 30 cities in France will exceed 23 ° C on Monday (i.e. 5.2 ° C more than normal for the season), according to the Weather Channel.
Thunderstorms expected in the north of the country
At the end of the afternoon and in the evening, these storms will cross the Centre-Val de Loire then the Paris basin and reach the north of the country. A risk of isolated thunderstorms will also continue further west, from Aquitaine to Brittany and Normandy.
Around the edge of the Gulf of Lion, a veil will be accompanied by maritime entries of low clouds, persisting during the day over the Aude and Hérault. But the heat will resist on Monday in the eastern half of the territory, with temperatures reaching up to 35 ° C, according to the weather information channel.
Temperatures will certainly drop, but will remain above seasonal norms. Minimum temperatures will range from 15 to 20 degrees in general. The maximum temperatures, still hot, will range between 23 and 28 degrees in the regions bordering the Channel and the Pays de la Loire, and between 29 and 34 degrees elsewhere.
The country broke last week its temperature record for the month of September, which dated back to 1949, a furnace that hit the entire metropolis and exhausted tens of millions of people, in classrooms, nursing homes, on schools. construction sites,
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