the essentials Intense stormy episodes affected several departments in the Occitanie region this Tuesday evening while 77 departments were placed on yellow alert.
While 77 departments are placed on yellow alert for thunderstorms and/or rain-floods this Tuesday evening, Aude and the Pyrénées-Orientales are facing bad weather this Tuesday evening.
At the end of the afternoon, from 5 p.m., violent storms hit Narbonne with episodes of hail observed in the region.
But the most impressive images this Tuesday evening come from the Pyrénées-Orientales.
South of Perpignan, in Sainte-Colombe-de-la-Commanderie, gusts of 118 km/h were recorded, reports infoclimat.fr. With the added bonus of hail and a significant amount of rain.
A little further north in Occitanie, in the Cévennes, 35 mm of rain was recorded in one hour, reports France 3. In Florac (Lozère), a record was broken with 72 mm of water per hour.
Numerous lightning strikes have also been noted in the region.
2023-09-12 19:30:23
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