He notably fell from the golf size of golf balls in the Bordeaux metropolis. The damage is material, and no victim was to be deplored at 10:30 pm
Le Monde with AFP
Material damage consecutive to heavy bad weather led to very many interventions from firefighters in the bordeaux agglomeration and on the Girondin coast, Monday, June 20 in the evening.
Around 10:30 p.m., firefighters were still engaged on “around 200 interventions” linked to an episode of “storms, hail and wind,” said a manager of the departmental fire and rescue service ( SDIS). They mainly worked for “damaged roofs, cables on the public highway, flooded premises, fallen trees”, detailed this manager at the France-Presse agency (AFP), specifying that at 10:30 p.m., no victim was not to be deplored.
winds at more than 100 km/h
In Gironde, placed on an orange alert “thunderstorms” by Météo France as twenty other departments of the South West and Center-Val de Loire, he fell from the golf size of golf balls in certain places, as in The Bordeaux metropolis, noted AFP.
“Locally virulent storms” circulate on the southwest, “by giving hailstones several centimeters in diameter, gusts of wind (…), intense precipitation (…) and a very marked electrical activity”, A Detailed Météo France in its evening bulletin.
Under these thunderstorms, it fell in an hour 17 mm in Pauillac (Gironde) and more than 50 mm in Clion (Charente-Maritime) while the wind blew in gusts reaching 112 km/h in Angoulême and Cognac ( Charente), 109 km/h at Cap-Ferret (Gironde) and 105 km/h in Mérignac, near Bordeaux.
According to the forecastist, another “stormy system circulates from the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, going up south-east of the Landes and the Gers, with strong showers and strong gusts of wind”.