{"id":244036,"date":"2025-06-26T14:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/?p=244036"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:38:42","slug":"paris-massive-hailstorm-flood-26-06-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/news\/paris-massive-hailstorm-flood-26-06-2026","title":{"rendered":"Massive Hailstorm and Flash Flood Devastate Paris: Two Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Massive Hailstorm and Flash Flood Devastate Paris: Two Killed, Dozens of Buildings Damaged Across France<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-244037\" src=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hail-paris.webp\" alt=\"Massive Hailstorm and Flash Flood Devastate Paris\" width=\"1431\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hail-paris.webp 1431w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,height=200,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hail-paris.webp 300w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=600,height=400,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hail-paris.webp 600w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=512,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hail-paris.webp 768w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=150,height=100,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/hail-paris.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1431px) 100vw, 1431px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A violent summer storm system has swept across France, leaving a trail of destruction from <strong>Tarn-et-Garonne<\/strong> to <strong>Paris<\/strong> and <strong>Mayenne<\/strong>, with at least <strong>two fatalities<\/strong>, hundreds of emergency responses, and widespread flooding. The capital witnessed <em>golf ball-sized hail<\/em>, over <strong>39,000 lightning strikes<\/strong>, and flash floods that submerged metro stations, overwhelmed drains, and flooded city streets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chaos in Paris, France! Massive Hail Storm and Flood Hit the Capital, Paralyzing the City\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C9Z2alsVwKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">Chaos in Paris, France<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>12-year-old boy<\/strong> was killed in southern France when a tree collapsed near a riverbank amid <strong>gusts reaching 114 km\/h (71 mph)<\/strong>. In <strong>Mayenne<\/strong>, a <strong>59-year-old motorcyclist<\/strong> died after colliding with a fallen tree.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Paris<\/strong>, scenes of chaos unfolded as powerful storms struck late on June 25:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Metro stations flooded<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pedestrians waded through waterlogged streets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Firefighters responded to 40+ calls<\/strong> about fallen trees<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rainwater leaked into the French National Assembly<\/strong>, halting parliamentary debate<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u26a1 Historical Context: When Paris Last Faced Nature\u2019s Fury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>France is no stranger to severe summer weather, but the <strong>intensity and timing<\/strong> of this system is rare. The last comparable event was in <strong>July 2021<\/strong>, when a hailstorm damaged vineyards in Bordeaux and a &#8220;supercell&#8221; system swept through central France. In <strong>June 2016<\/strong>, Paris faced devastating floods that forced the Louvre Museum to evacuate artworks and pushed the Seine River above 6 meters.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>June 2025 storm<\/strong>, however, stands out due to the <strong>combination of extreme heat and rapid convective development<\/strong>, setting the stage for high-energy thunderstorms capable of hail, downbursts, and lightning clusters across urban centers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udca8 A severe thunderstorm hits Paris, France, June 25, 2025. Wind gusts during the squall reached 25 meters per second. On the streets of Paris after a squall.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FZr7DAoVoI\">https:\/\/t.co\/FZr7DAoVoI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Paris<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hail?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hail<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/THUNDER?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#THUNDER<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/France?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#France<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0D8CbP4ovX\">pic.twitter.com\/0D8CbP4ovX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; City Weather (@ukcityweather) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukcityweather\/status\/1938199984798671162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>\ud83c\udf26\ufe0f Forecast: Paris &amp; France \u2013 June 26 to July 2, 2025<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Short-Term Outlook (June 26\u201328):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thunderstorms are forecast to gradually <strong>weaken and shift northeast<\/strong>, bringing temporary relief to central France.<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>lingering instability<\/strong> may trigger <strong>localized storms<\/strong> in the <strong>Grand Est<\/strong> and <strong>\u00cele-de-France<\/strong> regions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday (June 27):<\/strong> Dry and sunny over most of France, but <em>thunderstorm watches<\/em> remain in effect for <strong>eastern Burgundy and Alsace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Extended Outlook (June 29\u2013July 2):<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Extreme heat will return<\/strong> over the weekend, with highs near <strong>36\u00b0C (97\u00b0F)<\/strong> in Paris and <strong>40\u00b0C (104\u00b0F)<\/strong> in southern valleys.<\/p>\n<p>New convective outbreaks are likely <strong>July 1\u20132<\/strong>, especially in <strong>central and southern France<\/strong>, increasing the risk of <em>new hailstorms and flash floods<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UV and heat warnings<\/strong> expected to be reissued by M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/news\/hail-storm-chaos-in-paris-2025\">Storm in Paris France<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A violent summer storm system has swept across France, leaving a trail of destruction from Tarn-et-Garonne to Paris and Mayenne, with at least two fatalities, hundreds of emergency responses, and widespread flooding. The capital witnessed golf ball-sized hail, over 39,000 lightning strikes, and flash floods that submerged metro stations, overwhelmed drains, and flooded city streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6649],"class_list":["post-244036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nature-disasters","tag-flood","tag-hail","tag-heat","tag-storm-en","tag-thunderstorms","tag-navodnenie","tag-shtorm"],"acf":[],"wpml_data":{"original_post_id":244036,"trid":"2410009","lang":"en","source_lang":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}