Snowflakes on the plain? A good cold snap expected next week, what you need to know

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While meteorological winter began on December 1, 2024, the weather is not really freezing outside. Mildness records were even broken this last weekend of November. But the trend should be reversed this weekend, sincea cold snap is expectedeven snow on the plains.

“Temperatures are expected to fluctuate in our country in the coming days. Temporary cooling is in fact expected between Tuesday and Wednesday (…) bringing temperatures once again below normal for the period over a large part of the country, particularly between the North and the East,” we read in an article on the Météo-Cities website. .com.

Red spell then drop in temperatures

But the cold will not settle in for the whole week. First, “a new mild spell should affect our country between Thursday and Friday with the once again temporary shift in the flow to the West/South-West”, specifies the meteorology site. The fault of an anticyclone coming from the Azores.

For its part, Météo-France anticipates “values ​​more in line with seasonal averages” this Tuesday. “The sky is often cloudy, and can drop small showers locally, particularly in the North-East. A few flakes are possible on the eastern relief,” we still read on the website of the French meteorological organization.

It is rather at the end of the week that the situation will evolve more frankly, with “a change in flow”, since the Azores anticyclone should weaken towards the south, according to Météo-villes.com.

A much colder air mass coming from the North of Europe (…) will roll towards our country with this new shift in the flow at altitude with a much more wintry feeling increasing by the very end of the week .

“Parade of disruptions”

Météo-France speaks of a “parade of disturbances for the weekend”, and a new disturbance which will water a large part of the north-west of the country, and be accompanied by a strengthening of the wind. Then with a drop in temperatures this Sunday, December 8.

“There will be maritime polar air, but it should not be super cold, and would affect quite a few regions, mainly in the North and East, but not the Mediterranean. The northern flow will bring showers of sleet to the plain,” indicated Guillaume Séchet to actu.frfor a previous article.

From there to seeing snow fall on the country, like during the Caetano storm on November 21? “For the moment, the situation does not seem favorable to the occurrence of a more or less notable snowy episode in the plains between the end of the weekend and the beginning of next week despite the increasing cold air,” responds cautiously. site Météo-villes.com.

Snowflakes this Sunday

According to meteorologists from Météo-Villes.com, “high pressures should indeed assert themselves over the Atlantic from the start of next week, which will mean that the air mass should quickly dry out while the cold will increase.”

“No cold snap” is anticipated, however, Guillaume Séchet warned recently.

Please note that flakes should not be completely avoided: “ showers should still occur over a large part of the country during this period, accompanied by sleet/sleet falling down to the plains between this Sunday, December 8 and the beginning/middle of next week.

On the other hand, if you live in a city or in the plains and expect heavy snowfall, there is little chance. “The most notable snowfall should be observed on the reliefs, sometimes falling at low or even very low altitudes,” conclude the experts from Météo-villes.com.

Moreover, “the weekend should remain agitated with the passage of a fairly hollow depression over the British Isles which could cause strong gusts of wind as far as France. It is leading a new active disturbance which should once again give good watering to the country,” according to Météo-France.

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