Weekend weather: severe frosts and temperature drops

The weather is icy and cold this weekend according to the Weather Channel*.

Temperatures are expected to drop on Saturday and Sunday morning, with severe frosts expected in the north and east of the country.

Only the Mediterranean coast benefits from positive temperature values.

In question, the return of the anticyclone at the end of the week: the skies remain clear during the night, but the minimum temperatures are expected to be very low.

The weather in your area

Saturday, the cold is particularly sharp in the morning in the

and the ground covered with a carpet of fog.

In the afternoon, the clearings end up prevailing in the middle of a few high clouds.

The mercury can drop to -15°C in the plains.

In the

it is also cold with frosts in the morning, sometimes severe in the center of Normandy.

It freezes all the way to the seaside. Freezing fog in the morning gives way to wide sunny spells in the afternoon.

Saturday, in the

, caution due to totally frozen ground in the morning and freezing fog in the valleys.

In the afternoon, a cold sun prevails.

In the mountains, you benefit from superb weather, with snow on all the massifs, but beware of the risk of avalanche in the Alps.

, mists are numerous in the Garonne valley and on the Pyrenean foothills, sometimes freezing.

In the afternoon, the clearings prevail, and it must be very beautiful in the mountains.

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Near the Mediterranean

, if large cumulus develop from the Côte d'Azur to Corsica, the weather is fine elsewhere despite some recalcitrant low clouds on the Vermeille coast.

The weather on Sunday is rainy and windy in the north of the country.

The rest of France is dry, but still affected by a major cold snap in the morning.

*The Météo channel is a property of the Figaro group.