The weather is calming down this week, with an event that has not occurred for months in France.
While a stormy episode crossed the southeast this weekend, vacationers are hoping for more favorable weather this week, which will also be marked by the long weekend of November 1st. If fog was noticeable this Monday morning, the weather should calm down this week thanks to an anticyclone in the Azores. The sky will remain overcast, particularly from the English Channel to Lorraine, and showers are still possible near the Mediterranean this Monday. An anticyclone, especially in autumn, does not necessarily mean bright sunshine.
The rest of the week promises to be calm thanks to the particular situation in which France currently finds itself: the country “will be located between a solid anticyclone at 1030 hPa positioned in the North Sea and depressions evolving between the Balearic Islands, Spain and Morocco”, a positioning which “is favorable to maintaining calm weather over 95% of the territory”, explains La Chainé Weather. This prolonged absence of disturbance is a fairly exceptional event: the Weather Channel specifies that we must go back to October 2023 to find a period of one week without rain across the country. You read correctly: France will therefore experience a phenomenon unprecedented for a year: no rain in the territory for 7 days! This should make people happy!
According to Météo France forecasts, nice clearings should arrive on Tuesday over a good part of the territory, even if the gray weather will be persistent in the North and Brittany. It’s Wednesday and especially Thursday which look set to be very beautiful days, with sunshine almost everywhere in the afternoon after the morning fog has passed. For All Saints’ Day, fog will be present in the north and east, while a beautiful sun will persist in the west.
In terms of temperatures, they will still be above seasonal norms, although with a small drop which will be noticeable at the end of the week with a slightly cooler weekend. More good news: this calm weather could last a little while. In its trends, Météo France predicts, in fact, for the beginning of November, that “the weather remains anticyclonic, therefore calm and generally dry. Temperatures should be higher than normal for the season”.