The weather is changeable this weekend. For some, summer is not over, but for many, the grayness is setting in.
Instability has dominated the country for several days, showers and storms are multiplying and reviving memories of a particularly gloomy month of June. Météo France has placed several departments on storm, rain-flood alert since the beginning of the week, but the weather forecast should change once again for the weekend. For some, bright sunshine and summer temperatures are on the agenda, but for others it is rain that will punctuate this weekend. Locally, storms and hail are also expected. You will have to pay particular attention to the weather.
On Saturday, France is divided, from the northeast to the Côte d’Azur, the heat and humidity continue, while the western half is cut into three. In the departments of Occitanie and Auvergne, thunderstorms will be the most heard while in Brittany and Normandy, you have to prepare for heavy downpours accompanied by hail and gusts of wind. Only the Gironde and the southeast quarter seem to be spared by the bad weather.
As for temperatures, it’s also mixed. In the east and south, the warm air arriving from the Mediterranean will make the thermometer rise, The Weather Channel forecasts averages around 25°C in the north and the Paris basin, 26 for the Grand-Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and up to 31°C in Corsica, and all around the Mediterranean. This heat, however, contrasts with the western half, where temperatures should hardly exceed 20°C.
On Sunday, the weather will go from bad to worse: the thermostat will drop throughout the country with significant temperature differences compared to the day before in the east of the country. Only Corsica and the Pyrénées-Orientales will keep temperatures above 25°C. In the rest of the country, it will be cool, especially along the Atlantic where the mercury will be plummeting. Inland, it will not be much warmer, the cold air will rush in and should remain over 3/4 of the country.
In terms of the sky, the storms should have moved to the south-east quarter and can be heard across the entire Rhone Valley. Less heavy rain is expected over a large part of the country: from Paris to Aurillac and from Brest to Strasbourg. As on the previous day, the south-west quarter should maintain pleasant weather, as should the north of France.