Highlight
– Stormy winds in the English Channel: up to 130 km/h
– Stormy wind in the southwest and in Roussillon: 100 to 120 km/h
– Blizzard in the mountains from 1000 to 1200 meters
Maximum wind gusts © The Weather Channel
This morning
The disturbance stretches from the Pyrenees to the northeast with good rain and snow in the mountains dropping between 1500 and 2000 meters at midday. At the back, you experience many showers, especially near the coasts where the wind blows stormily.
Minimum temperatures: 5 to 14°C
This afternoon
The cold front is blocked on the northern slopes of the reliefs where the snow falls at the end of the day between 800 and 1200 meters depending on the massifs. Elsewhere, there are numerous showers and gusts are still powerful, particularly on the coasts. The tramontana is clearly strengthening over the Gulf of Lion. Only the far south-east and Corsica remain spared from this unrest.
Maximum temperatures: 8 to 16°C
Soirée
Heavy showers are coming down from the English Channel towards the Paris basin with still very strong gusts on the coast. The rains stop in the Pyrenees with snow from 1000 meters. It continues to snow, but more lightly on the other massifs, generally between 700 and 900 meters.
Weather trend: what you need to remember for the coming days
Winter conditions will continue on Sunday and at the start of the week with significant quantities of snow in the mountains, especially in the Pyrenees. The wind will always blow in a storm on our coasts. Temperatures will drop below seasonal norms with a very cold feeling in the wind!
