Overview

• After a night of downgrades, only two departments remain under orange vigilance until around midday, with a possible short‑lived extension to nearby areas, according to Météo‑France.
• At the peak on Wednesday, 28 departments from the Pyrénées to the Bas‑Rhin were placed on orange alert for violent thunderstorms before most were lowered to yellow by midnight and others by 06:00.
• The active convective episode is characterized by very heavy rainfall of 20–40 mm in one hour, locally 50–80 mm over the event, accompanied by hail and gusts often 70–80 km/h and up to 90–100 km/h.
• Emergency services report about 770 people evacuated from a campsite in Saint‑Honoré‑les‑Bains (Nièvre), and a woman in her forties died after a tree fell during storm conditions.
• Atlantic coasts faced yellow ‘vagues‑submersion’ advisories for powerful swell, and forecasters noted exceptional rainfall totals in parts of Allier and Auvergne with several records broken.