According to the agency, high temperatures will affect the southeastern territories of Rhône and Isère, also hit by a heat wave last week.

The remaining 50 departments included in the alert, which warns of unusual and dangerous phenomena, belong to the central region.

In these cases, towns in the Paris Region, Champagne, and Picardy could receive more than 40 millimeters of rain in one or two hours, hail, and winds with gusts exceeding 100 kilometers per hour.

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