Ten departments have been placed on orange alert according to the Météo-France bulletin released this Thursday morning.
During the day, the weather will be rainy and snowy in the Southwest and cold elsewhere.
The departments of Aude, Aveyron, Dordogne, Lot, Hautes-Pyrénées, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pyrénées-Orientales, Tarn, and Tarn- et-Garonne.
The Landes department is placed in flood orange vigilance, concerning the Adour.
This Thursday morning, the showers will remain frequent from the Landes to the Pyrenees, with a rain-snow limit which will rise slowly.
A few extra centimeters will be possible from 300 to 400 m altitude in the Pyrénées Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées.
A new disturbance will approach western Brittany, giving rain.
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In front, the clouds will dominate despite some small clearings from the Midi Toulousain to the Pays de Loire and Lower Normandy.
The clearings will sometimes be a little wider from Haute-Normandie to Nord-Pas-de-Calais, but some small local showers of rain sometimes mixed with snow will be probable on the Normandy coast.
Thinnings will dominate from the Mediterranean coast to the Alps, east of the Doubs and south of Alsace.
1 to 4 degrees near the coast
Elsewhere, the grayness will be present, with some light snowfall, even some freezing drizzle very locally between Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and southern Burgundy.
Corsica will see variable skies all day with a few showers, and snow from around 400 m.
In the afternoon, the disturbance will enter via the Atlantic seaboard.
At the end of the day and evening, it will sometimes bring snow to the plain in the south-west, in particular along a Dordogne - Tarn - Roussillon axis where 5 to 10 cm of sticky snow is expected in places.
The northwest wind will blow strong south of the Garonne.
The sun will prevail from PACA to the Alps, while over a north-eastern half of the country, cloudy periods will dominate, giving a few light and scattered showers, often in the form of snow to the plains.
The northwest wind will blow in the Mediterranean, with gusts up to 70 to 80 km / h.
The frosts will affect most of France, and will be well marked in a North-East quarter and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, between -5 and -1 degrees, down to -9 degrees in Lozère and Aubrac.
Temperatures will be less cold near the coast with 1 to 4 degrees.
On the western half and near the Mediterranean, the maximum will be between 4 and 8 degrees, up to 9 to 13 on the south of Aquitaine, the Côte d'Azur and Corsica.
In the east of the country, the maximum will not exceed 1 to 5 degrees.
“Following a strike notice by the public service unions for Thursday 19 and the adjoining nights, disruptions are possible with regard to the development and distribution of the next bulletins.
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In addition, Météo-France warns that "disturbances are possible in the development and distribution" of weather reports for this Thursday and the following night due to a strike.