This week was tough.
The weather was cold and wet on Monday, accompanied by snow and ice.
On Wednesday, depression Irène caused heavy rain, accompanied by wind, snow and ice, making traffic conditions very complicated in the north and east of France: 36 departments, from Haut-Rhin to Finistère, were then placed on orange snow-ice or rain-flood alert.
Thursday and Friday, temperatures were plummeting from the southwest to the center-east with a drop of 10 to 15°C in 24 hours.
The north of France woke up to freezing cold.
In Arras, the previous temperature record, which dates back to the cold snap of January 1987, was even beaten: it was -14.7°C on Friday morning.
Unsettled weather in the north and sunny weather in the south
Next week, the northern half of France
“will be under the influence of a disturbed ocean flow from the west to the southwest with periods of rain in a turbulent atmosphere”
, anticipates
La Chaîne Météo
* in its bulletin .
The disturbances will be
“especially active at the start of the week”
, before losing intensity subsequently thanks to
“high pressures which will increase again from the south”
, adds the specialist site.
The southern half of France will therefore be affected by dry weather, cloudy in the southwest,
“but sunnier in the Southeast”
.
“The great mildness will spread throughout the country
,” concludes
La Chaîne Météo
.
*The Météo Channel belongs to the Le Figaro group.