In its 4 p.m. bulletin, this Saturday, June 4, 2022, Meteo France had placed 65 departments on orange alert for very strong storm activity. In the evening, Météo France had not lifted this vigilance because other stormy episodes were expected during the night. These storms are moving towards the North and East of France.
Sometimes violent thunderstorms affected the south-west of the country and progressed towards the north and east of the country, accompanied by intense rains (locally 40 to 60 mm in a short time), gusts of wind and hail, in particular on the South-West and the Massif Central.
Landes and Gers affected
In the Landes and Gers, hailstones of several centimeters fell on part of the Armagnac vineyard, winegrowers and local officials told Agence France Presse (AFP). “This corridor of hail followed the entire Lando-Gers border and it is estimated that between 4 and 5,000 hectares of vines were affected and several tens of thousands of hectares of crops were affected in the Gers”says the president of the departmental chamber of agriculture Bernard Malabirade.
decimated vines
In Frêche (Landes), winemaker Nelly Lacave has regained her 8.5 hectares of vines “chopped. » In the vineyards, there is nothing left. “The roof of our agricultural building is a giant Swiss cheese and in the house, windows broke. My father who is almost 70 years old has never seen this”she laments.
Not far from there, in Labastide-d’Armagnac (Landes), Mayor Alain Gaube thinks he has “lost between 70 and 90% of the vines. On the ground, there is a large part of leaves and grapes. The remaining grapes (on the vine) are already brown, they are dead. » If no injuries are to be deplored in the Landes, 4,500 homes have been deprived of electricity.
Read also: Storms: State services are “ready to intervene”, assures Gérald Darmanin
Under the tents
In fact, the lightning lit up the sky both in Brittany and in Centre-Val de Loire, Normandy or Ile-de-France. Amateur photographers have posted images of the top of the Eiffel Tower struck by lightning on the networks. “State services and the means of @SecCivileFrance are mobilized, ready to intervene”reported on Twitter the minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanininviting the public “to follow the advice of the authorities and to remain very vigilant. »
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State services and means of @SecCivileFrance are mobilized, ready to intervene.
The population is invited to follow the advice of the authorities and to remain very vigilant. https://t.co/PKdfuIpAck— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) June 4, 2022
Festival canceled, scouts sheltered
In Vincennes, east of Paris, the music festival We Love Green had to stop because “the conditions are not pleasant for the public or for the artists”, announced a speaker on stage. On the National Estate of Chambord (Loir-et-Cher), 30,000 unit scouts from France, gathered for the Pentecost weekend, had to be sheltered, a third of them inside of the castle itself. “The storm passed around 4:30 p.m. It lasted a few minutes but it was relatively strong”, explained Damien Tardy, in charge of press relations for the movement, to Agence France Presse. Ten thousand young people, aged 8 to 12, were sheltered in the castle in cooperation with the prefecture.
The director of the National Estate of Chambord, Jean d’Haussonville, specified that the sheltering had taken place “passed in calm and good humor thanks to the fallback plan provided by the prefecture. The castle was closed to the public from 3:30 p.m. in anticipation of the storm. The idea was to welcome the youngest in the castle as a priority, i.e. around 10,000 people. »
The departments concerned
In the evening, the orange vigilance of the 65 departments concerned had still not been lifted. The storms are currently moving towards the North of France.
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?? 65 deposits in #vigilanceOrange
Stay informed about https://t.co/rJ24zzmmy4 pic.twitter.com/drbWdyktuy
– VigiMétéoFrance (@VigiMeteoFrance) June 4, 2022
The departments concerned by orange vigilance are Ain, Aisne, Allier, Ardennes, Ariège, Aube, Aveyron, Bas-Rhin, Calvados, Cantal, Cher, Corrèze, Côte-d’Or, Creuse, Dordogne, Doubs, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Indre, Jura, Landes, Loir -et-Cher, Loire, Haute-Loire, Haut-Rhin, Loiret, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Manche, Marne, Haute-Marne, Mayenne, Meurthe-et- Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Nièvre, Nord, Oise, Orne, Pas-de-Calais, Puy-de-Dôme, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Rhône, Haute-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, Sarthe, the entire Ile-de-France region (Paris and the three departments of the inner suburbs, as well as Yvelines, Seine-et-Marne, Essonne and Val-d’Oise), Seine-Maritime, Somme, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Haute-Vienne, Vosges, Yonne and the Territoire de Belfort.
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