Storm Amy: Six Departments Placed by Météo France on Orange Alert for Violent Winds this Saturday

Storm Amy is circulating in the British Isles and will generate strong gusts of wind this Saturday afternoon in the Channel coast departments, according to Météo France.

Météo France is strengthening its vigilance. After reporting nearly 60 departments on yellow alert for “violent winds” this Saturday 4th October 2025 morning, the institution draws the orange alert.

The cause: violent gusts expected on the northwest coast, in the wake of storm Amy which has been shaking France since Friday.

Six departments on orange alert

Previously placed on yellow alert. six departments are switching to orange vigilance, announcement by Meteo France in his 10 a.m. Saturday bulletin.

Aisne: wind
North: wind
Oise: wind
Pas-de-Calais: wind
Seine-Maritime: wind
Sum: wind

Moreover, around fifty departments remain on yellow alert this Saturday, especially for “strong winds”:

Ain: wind
Aisne: storms
Allier: wind
Ardennes: wind
Dawn: wind
Calvados: wind, storms
Charente-Maritime: wind
Dear: wind
Côte-d’Or: wind
Côtes-d’Armor: wind, storms
Doubs: wind
Eure: wind, storms
Eure-et-Loir: wind
Finistère: wind
Ille-et-Vilaine: wind, storms
Indre: wind
Indre-et-Loire: wind
Isère: wind
Jura: wind
Loir-et-Cher: wind
Loire: wind
Loiret: wind
Maine-et-Loire: wind
Channel: wind, storms
Marne: wind
Haute-Marne: wind
Mayenne: storms
Meurthe-et-Moselle: wind
Meuse: wind
Moselle: wind
Nièvre: wind
North: storms
Oise: storms
Orne: wind, storms
Pas-de-Calais: storms, waves-submersion
Bas-Rhin: wind
Haut-Rhin: wind
Rhône: wind
Haute-Saône: wind
Saône-et-Loire: wind
Sarthe: wind
Savoie: wind
Haute-Savoie: wind
Paris: wind, storms
Seine-Maritime: storms, waves-submersion
Seine-et-Marne: wind, storms
Yvelines: wind, storms
Deux-Sèvres: wind
Sum: storms, waves-submersion
Vendée: wind
Vienna: wind
Vosges: wind
Yonne: wind
Territory. of Belfort: wind
Essonne: wind, storms
Hauts-de-Seine: wind, storms
Seine-Saint-Denis: wind, storms
Val-de-Marne: wind, storms
Val-d’Oise: wind, storms

Up to 130 km/h wind

The reason for this change to orange? “Storm Amy is circulating in the British Isles and will generate strong gusts of wind in the departments near the Channel coast”, responds the institution weather french.

On the Channel coast, gusts of around 100 to 120 km/h, or even 130 km/h locally, are expected. Inland, gusts reach 90 to 100 km/h, or even 110 km/h locally.
Meteo-France

A few gusts are observable in the morning but it is especially from midday that the wind will strengthen, especially the west wind. On the menu: “strong gusts under stormy showers”.