France will experience this weekend the arrival of polar air and precipitation from the British Isles, says
La Chaîne Météo
*.
The wind, which will come mainly from the north, will accentuate this cold.
Snow will fall on all massifs above 600 m and will affect the plains and hills of the Northwest and East.
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If the precipitation will start as rain in the northern half, it will quickly turn to snow overnight from Friday to Saturday.
There may be locally 1 to 5 cm on the ground.
Elsewhere, with the exception of the PACA region, there will be showers and strong winds on Saturday.
On Sunday, this cloudy weather will persist mainly over the central-eastern half of the country and the Pyrenean massif.
Heavy rainfall is also expected south of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and west of the Pyrenees.
There could be a few centimeters of snow on the ground on the departments in yellow.
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The weather in your area
From
Brittany
and
Normandy
to
Pays de la Loire
and
Center Val de Loire
, the weather will be very unstable between sunny spells and showers.
Precipitation can also be rain, hail or sometimes snow, especially on hills above 200 m altitude.
The northwesterly wind will blow in violent gusts of 70-80 km / h inland and 90-100 km / h on the coasts.
Temperatures will oscillate between 1 ° C and 6 ° C in the morning, and between 5 ° C and 9 ° C in the afternoon, but the feeling will be much colder.
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From
Hauts-de-France
to
Ile-de-France
, the sky will be heavy and precipitation possible.
On the hills there may be a light blanket of snow.
The north wind will blow strongly on the Opal Coast.
In the morning, temperatures will be between 0 ° C and 5 ° C and in the afternoon between 4 ° C and 6 ° C.
From the
Grand Est
to
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
, there will be some low-altitude snowfall in the morning in Lorraine, Franche-Comté and the Vosges.
Despite a lull in the middle of the day, precipitation will resume in the afternoon, in the form of snow above 300 m altitude.
The thermometer will display -1 ° C to 3 ° C in the morning and 2 ° C to 6 ° C in the afternoon.
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In
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
, after some snowfall in the morning from 300-400 m altitude, instability will set in with rain showers or snow for areas above 500 m altitude. In the plains, temperatures will fluctuate from 0 ° C to 5 ° C in the morning and from 3 ° C to 7 ° C. In the mountains, temperatures will be negative in the morning and will remain around 0 ° C in the afternoon.
In
New Aquitaine
, rain will fall throughout the day in the Landes and regions near the Pyrenees. On the reliefs, the snow will fall from 700-800 m with significant quantities of snow expected above 1200 m on the west and the center of the Pyrenean chain. The wind will blow hard on the Aquitaine coast and the Pyrenean ridges. Temperatures will be between 2 ° C and 7 ° C in the morning and between 5 ° C and 9 ° C in the afternoon.
From
Occitania
to the
PACA
region
and
Corsica
, the sky will be overcast in the morning with some showers.
In the afternoon, the weather will be dry in Languedoc-Roussillon and in the PACA region but the mistral and tramontane will blow up to 90 km / h.
The weather will be unstable in Corsica with showers and wind.
In Midi-Pyrénées, the sky will remain loaded with showers and snow from 600 m on the reliefs.
Temperatures will be between 4 ° C and 8 ° C in the morning and between 6 ° C and 13 ° C in the afternoon.
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