Hurricane Kirk is moving across the Atlantic and heading for the European mainland. The incoming weather system, now classed as an extratropical storm, has led meteorologists at Météo France to issue a yellow weather alert for large parts of southern and eastern France.
A yellow weather alert for potentially very heavy rain, strong winds, and violent stormy conditions has been put in place for around half of France by the national weather monitoring service, Météo France.
The worst of the weather is expected to hit the Cévennes in the early hours of Tuesday 8th October, where an orange-level alert has been activated.
The Alpes-Maritimes, the Var and Monaco currently fall under the yellow weather alert, which will remain in place between 2am and 6pm on Tuesday 8th October. Météo France has acknowledged that the storms could be more intense than anticipated and has stated that the yellow-level alert may be upgraded to a more serious orange alert.
The storm will begin moving further northwards in the afternoon before petering out over the following days.
Forecasters in the UK are predicting similarly poor weather conditions for southern England between Wednesday and Friday of this week.
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