It's cold and that's normal in winter. But wait for the rest. At the start of 2025, there could also be snow falling in France. Not on the Alps or the Pyrenees. No, this Wednesday it is in the north of the country that the snowflakes could fall. To the point that Météo-France has placed four departments on orange alert for snow and ice for Wednesday. Seine-Maritime, Somme, Pas-de-Calais and the North are affected by this alert issued by meteorologists.
The disturbance that arrived in the west on Tuesday should progress towards the north during the day. “In contact with colder air to the north, precipitation becomes snowy from Upper Normandy to Hauts-de-France,” forecasts Météo-France, which specifies that “this precipitation weakens in the middle of the night from Wednesday to Thursday” . The orange alert will be triggered at 2 p.m. In Brittany, copious amounts of rain are expected.
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The trajectory of the snowfall remains to be defined. According to Météo-France, the main snow axis could “also extend over the departments going from the east of Calvados to the north of the Ardennes via the west of Val-d'Oise, and less concern the extreme north of Nord-Pas-de-Calais”.
The year 2025 starts with a particularly wet climate, in line with 2024. One of the hottest years in contemporary history but which brought significant rainfall. Annual records were broken in several cities in the northern half such as Paris (900 mm in one year), Blois, Le Mans and Saint-Nazaire, which recorded 1,106 mm of rain over one year.
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