Storm wave approaching: Lightning to strike France at the end of the week during further deterioration of the weather

After a few days of calm, a new wave of storm disturbances is expected in France on September 20, 2024.

In the coming days, the weather is likely to deteriorate in France. Starting with the West, then the South of the country, which will be in the grip of violent storms by Saturday. The Weather Channel announces a wave of disturbances at the end of the week.

The West hit first

In the coming days, “the sun would resist more in the northeast while the weather would become threatening in the south and west of the country”.

As of Friday evening, the weather forecast site indicates that storms will hit the entire west coast of the country. Brest, Nantes, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Biarritz… a depression will arrive from the Atlantic and will rage all night.

Saturday afternoon. The Weather Channel.

The weather will calm down during the day on Saturday, before electrical activity starts up again in full force. In the afternoon, thunderstorms will once again hit the west coast, but also as far as Occitanie, and even Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur in the late evening.

Storms in the region

Because at the start of the weekend, the South will also be hit by thunderstorms. Starting with Toulouse, then Perpignan and finally Montpellier. Throughout the weekend, electrical activity will be higher at the end of the day. Apart from a few thunderclaps on Sunday morning in Hérault, Aveyron and Lozère.

At the end of the day on Sunday, a large part of France will be in the grip of thunderstorms. The entire region will be affected from 2 p.m., a risk that will last until nightfall.

The stormy instability will last until Monday, or even Tuesday. But given the unpredictable nature of storms, forecasts are difficult to give so much advance notice.