Rain and thunderstorms are forecast for much of the country this weekend. The start of autumn is likely to be wet while temperatures remain summery.
The good weather at the beginning of the week should come to an end in the coming days. Although the sun will still be mostly present until the end of the week, from Friday evening thunderstorms will arrive from the west, they will extend over the entire Atlantic coast before reaching the land in the following days.
From Saturday morning, according to The Weather Channel Instability seems to be settling in more in France, even if the sun is still quite present in the north-east. Over the rest of the country, cloudy weather is looming, from the tip of Brittany to Burgundy and from Normandy to Occitanie. In the afternoon, the weather deteriorates again, the clouds continue to advance towards the east of France while storms continue on the Channel coast and along the Atlantic coast. Rain will also appear over most of the western half, cutting France in two. On the shores of the Mediterranean, only the departments of Occitanie are currently affected by these showers.
The day’s temperatures are above seasonal norms. In the morning, the minimum temperatures are forecast for Strasbourg with only 11°C and the maximum temperatures for Toulouse, Perpignan, Montpellier and Ajaccio with 17°C. For the rest of the day, temperatures rise especially in the north, with up to 24°C in Lille, 23°C around the Paris basin. In the evening, the weather does not seem to want to calm down, showers and thunderstorms continue, over the western three-quarters of France.
For Sunday, the weather is getting worse again. In the morning, clouds and bad weather will have reached all the departments in the south and east of France. A large part of the country will be under the influence of a depression moving up from the Mediterranean towards the Bay of Biscay. The afternoon is not looking much better with thunderstorms that will have left the Normandy and Brittany coasts to spread to the rest of France.
Temperatures remain seasonal, however, around twenty degrees nationally and locally, The Weather Channel forecast for the morning between 12°C in Strasbourg and Aurillac and up to 18°C in Montpellier, Perpignan and Ajaccio. In the afternoon, temperatures change slightly, the minimums are once again for Aurillac with only 17°C, while in three quarters of the country we approaches 20°C. It is only in In the southernmost regions, the thermometer will exceed 20°C, with 21 in Bordeaux and Montélimar, and 22 in Nice, Marseille and Toulouse.