this map of fog seen from space will not fail to please the Bretons

WEATHER – The image evokes the introduction to an album of Adventures of Asterix. While a large part of the country has only a vague memory of what the blue sky is, the fault is a thick sheet of fog which has been stagnating above France for ten days, Thursday November 7, an atmospheric curiosity could be captured from space: a remarkable gap, which offers summer weather to the tip of Brittany.

As you can see in the photos belowcaptured by Eumetsat, the organization which manages European meteorological satellites, the west of Brittany largely benefited from the sun's rays, from 1 p.m. this Thursday and until nightfall.

In Finistère, as well as part of Côtes-d'Armor and Morbihan, the sun's rays were able to warm the atmosphere, allowing thermometers to sometimes display more than 20°C, for example in Brest or in Lanmeur, near Morlaix.

Enough to provoke a striking contrast with the rest of the region, as reported by our colleagues from the local branch of France 3. Thus, further inland, it was barely 9°C in Dinart. Or, like what has been happening tirelessly in recent days over a large northern half of France, winter weather. Seasonal though.

The cause: an anticyclone which traps humidity (and therefore clouds and fog), which the sun, much too shy at this time of year, is unable to evaporate. This is why the period of gray weather is likely to continue, over eastern Brittany as well as the rest of the northern half of France.

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