Large hail after 40 degree heat in central France

The storms that hit the department on Monday night were accompanied by huge hailstones that caused damage that is still hard to calculate. Dordogne, Charente and Béarn also suffered. Awakening promises to be difficult on Tuesday 21 June in the morning in the southwest and in the Gironde in particular, given the extent of the damage caused by the storms that hit the department this Monday evening. According to Météo-France, the storm episode that affected the Gironde, Charente and Dordogne, announced the day before with an orange “storm warning“, like many other departments, caused “heavy accumulations of rain“ and “strong gusts of wind“, in places “hailstones of several centimeters in diameter.“