The end of the late heat wave that has hit France for several days began this Thursday evening, as announced by Météo-France. The disappearance of the heat dome that hovered over the territory allowed the meeting between the warm air released by the dome and that, colder, located at altitude. The result of this encounter generated particularly intense and violent thunderstorms. Much more than usual.
This arrival of precipitation also marks the gradual cooling of the territory, after a multitude of heat records. The bad weather first swept through the northwest of the territory. The opportunity for many to immortalize the storm and publish the pictures on social networks.
Demonstration of such extreme weather: the formation of arcus. These rather rare clouds are proof of particularly violent and intense storm phenomena. They take the form of a scroll and can be up to tens of kilometers long. They usually form after a strong contrast between the temperature of the ground and that of the air and are harbingers of violent weather, based on torrential rains, hail and thunderstorms.
A massive arc first formed along the Normandy coast near Trouville, before rolling over the region. The city of Le Havre was also affected by one of these clouds.
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Another of these phenomena was observed near the Ardennes, easily recognizable by its characteristic cylindrical shape.
Arcus photographed by Pierre Galine on the western
These severe weather events gave rise to a festival of lightning, much more abundant than usual. In Lorraine, near Nancy, a user superimposed several lightning strikes over two minutes to show their impressive rate, for a total of 22 impacts.
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In Yonne too, photographers had a great time immortalizing the stripes in the sky, in addition to the particularly large number of impacts (2,000 were recorded).
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Heavy rains are also responsible for a lot of damage. This wave of bad weather was no exception: destroyed cars, damaged infrastructure, flooding, trees uprooted in the program.
In Chalon-sur-Saône, lightning struck an obelisk on the Saint-Laurent bridge, destroying it instantly and dropping the debris on a motorist. He and his two dogs luckily escaped unscathed.
@Chalon_officiel’s Saint-Laurent bridge struck by lightning this afternoon! Fortunately, in the crushed car, neither the driver nor his two dogs were injured! Lots of damage throughout the region.
In Chauny, in the Aisne, the area was the victim of gusts measured at 113 km / h for the most part, which uprooted some trees, the latter crushing parked cars.
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