This Saturday morning, in addition to the placement on orange alert for snow and ice in 30 departments by Météo-France, some residents woke up with negative values.
Not surprisingly, the first week of the year is spent in the cold. In a bulletin, Météo-France announced a drop in temperatures in a large northern quarter from Friday January 3.
This Saturday morning, in addition to the placement on orange alert for snow and ice in 30 departments by Météo-France, some residents woke up with negative values.
On its X page, Météo Franc-Comtoise listed the temperatures recorded during the night from Friday to Saturday. “In accordance with today's forecasts, it is in Haut-Jura and Haut-Doubs that temperatures have reached completely Siberian values… Very often, the coldest since February 2013”, affirmed the service.
At La Combe Noire in Mignovillard, in the Jura, “a minimum of -33.9°C was measured by the Localsat group” in this uninhabited area, considered “the coldest in France”, according to Météo Franc-Comtoise. In the Doubs, -28.1°C was recorded at the coldest of the night in the hamlet of Reculfoz.
Furthermore, -33.1°C was recorded at the Solaison sinkhole (Haute-Savoie) during the night from Friday to Saturday.
13°C in Bordeaux
But France also woke up with contrasting temperatures between Aquitaine where the warm weather is beginning and the polar cold present in a good half of the country including Franche-Comté, indicated La Chaîne Météo.
At 8 a.m., 13.4°C was recorded in Cambo-les-Bains (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and 13°C in Bordeaux (Gironde). At the same period, temperatures were negative in Doubs with -19°C in Mouthe and -23.4°C in Pierrefontaine-les-Varans.
The warm weather is expected this Sunday in France.