Approaching bad weather wiping out French seat of government (8)
I believe the answer is:
stormont
'approaching bad' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'weather wiping out french seat of government' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'weather' could be 'storm' (I have seen 'Violent weather' mean 'storm' so perhaps 'weather' could also mean 'storm') and 'storm' is located in the answer.
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for stormont that I've seen before include "Seat of Northern Ireland assembly" , "N. Ireland parliament" , "Site of Northern Ireland parliament building" , "Name for the Northern Ireland Assembly" , "Was seat of government in N Ireland" .)