PARIS, June 5, 2018 (News Wires) - France has been lashed by violent storms for the past few weeks and 28 more departments were on alert on Tuesday. Forecasters say the lightning, thunder, hail and downpours are set to last a while longer. Since mid-May France has been battered by a series of storms that have affected most of the country. Departments have taken it in turn to be on alert as thunder, lightning, hail showers and downpours have repeatedly swept across the country. Some areas like Finistere in Brittany and Bas-Rhin department in the east have seen severe flash flooding. On Tuesday a 35-year-old man was found dead in his car in Eure, Normandy after it was submerged during flooding. The area had been hit by storms on Monday evening. To put the stormy period in context, the month of May saw 182,000 lightning strikes touch the ground. That's double the previous record for a month of May.