The weather for Wednesday, December 8: a department on orange alert for heavy rainfall

The weather remains disturbed by two depressions, with heavy rains which come up against the west of the Pyrenees and snow falling to lower and lower altitudes, explains La Chaîne Météo *.

The Barra depression produces strong winds in the English Channel and generates a very strong swell in the Bay of Biscay.

These waves can cause submersions at the time of high seas.

In the rest of France, the clouds are numerous except on a strip stretching from the Pays de la Loire to the Hauts-de-France.

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The Pyrénées-Atlantiques are on orange alert with a risk of heavy rainfall

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, very strong waves of 7 to 8 m off Finistère will propagate on the northern coasts of Brittany and the Atlantic coast with waves of 3 to 6 m on the sectors the most exposed.

The sky will be very cloudy and the north-westerly wind will blow strongly with gusts exceeding 90 km / h in the coastal zone.

Showers sometimes accompanied by sleet are expected.

Afternoon temperatures will be between 4 and 9 ° C.

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, clearings are expected throughout the day.

The minimum will be between 1 to 5 ° C and the maximum between 3 to 8 ° C.

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clouds will be numerous, but precipitation will remain rare despite a small risk of showers in the afternoon.

Temperatures will drop slightly with no more than 4 to 7 ° C in the afternoon.

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stormy rains will cross Corsica and the Alpes-Maritimes. On the Corsican capes, the weather will be windy with gusts of over 120 km / h. Significant depths of snow will cover the entire chain, with a risk of snow at very low altitude, the thickness of which could reach 30 to 50 cm in the alpine valleys. Maximum temperatures will be between 5 to 17 ° C from Auvergne to the east of Corsica with a westerly wind.

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, continuous and sustained rains will occur in the western part of the Pyrenees where it will snow in abundance from 1,500 meters in the morning then 900 meters in the evening, record snow depths for this time of the year. year. These new snow depths will reach 80 cm to 1 m from an altitude of 2000 m. For this purpose, the Pyrénées-Atlantiques has been placed on an orange alert for precipitation by La Chaine Météo. Elsewhere, numerous showers sometimes accompanied by sleet and strong gusts of wind will concentrate on the Aquitaine basin, while the weather will be drier in Languedoc-Roussillon, due to the strong tramontane. Maximum temperatures will drop sharply with only 5 to 9 ° C.

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