A winter time is announced from Friday on a good part of the country. Snow should fall in places, not just in the mountains!
The first flakes are expected on Friday in France. According to forecasts of Météo France and The weather channelwet and even winter time is looming at the end of the week, with snow in the mountains, but also in the plain! The Massif Central will be particularly affected by this snowy episode. “Particularly abundant” snowfall are announced by the weather chain in its bulletin.
In detail, it will start, according to Météo France, with a cold drop, that is to say a cold air pocket at altitude, in the northwest of France. A phenomenon that will generate low precipitation from southwest to the north, sometimes with a little snow mixed with the rain of the Pays de la Loire to Normandy Friday morning. If in places of snow on its own can fall, it should not, however, hold on the ground, the temperatures announced being close to +1 or +2 ° C. In Île-de-France, no snow expected a priori. A “slight sprinkling in the countryside” will be at most observed in the countryside, estimates the weather channel.
During the night from Friday to Saturday
On Friday evening, precipitation will move to the center-west. The forecasts announce Limousin snow to the Center region. This should fall, sometimes far enough to obtain several centimeters on the ground, on the night of Friday to Saturday. On the Massif Central, the snow will also be on the program from Friday evening and until Saturday evening.
Still between Friday evening to Saturday morning, the snow should “invade” the Massif Central, warns the weather channel. On the Limousin and the west of the Massif Central, the flakes will fall from 600 to 800 meters, or even from 400 meters in Auvergne on Saturday, estimates Météo France. From Puy-de-Dôme, to Haute-Loire via the Cévennes, no one will be spared. On the Rhône side, the rain-snow limit will be around 1,400 meters at the start of the night, before descending, in turn, at 600-800 meters on Saturday morning.
Complications are expected on the roads in the morning on Saturday in Limousin, Auvergne and towards Aveyron. On the other hand, in the plain, whether in Saint-Etienne, in Forez or to Clermont-Ferrand, a rain-snow mixture will be observed at most at the start of the weekend.
What will be the departments most affected by snow?
Météo France is cautious. The meteorology department evokes an “high uncertainty, given the uncertain positioning of cold gout” and judges that the scenario must still be refined in the coming days. But for the weather channel, it already seems clear that certain departments will be more affected than others. With “20 to 30 cm generalized from 1,000 meters above sea level, and up to 80 cm (locally 1 meter)”, the Lozère and the Ardèche summits should dress in a beautiful white coat. If the Cantal should also be very white, Saturday morning, it is the Loire, the Haute-Loire, the Ardèche and again La Lozère which will be the most affected by this snowy episode, from 600 meters, on. The evolution remains to be specified for the rest of Saturday and more generally on weekends.