“The cold air is reaching us, with rain and wind,” warns the monitoring director of a Météo-France subsidiary

We should expect a drop in temperatures this week, with frosts. The rain will be particularly important to watch out for in the north and east of France.

Winter is coming, and the temperatures will make us feel it this week. “Currently we have a depression which is centered on the south of Greenland, which gradually descends towards the British Isles and which will affect France at the start of the week“, warns Guillaume Ferry, the surveillance director at Predict services on franceinfo.

“The cold air is gaining on us, with a lot of rain, wind, and also snow probably in mid-mountains and perhaps in the plains in the middle of the week“, he continues.

Temperatures will drop several degrees, with frosts. “It’s a winter situation, nothing exceptional, but you have to watch the amounts of rain which can fall quite abundantly both along the Normandy coast, along the Belgian and German borders, between Lorraine and the Ardennes. notably”, specifies the specialist.

In Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Guillaume Ferry mentions a fairly significant rainy episode the next night from November 18 to 19, “but not to the extent of last year’s floods at the moment.” He adds that there is “monitoring in Seine-Maritime in particular, there are rain values ​​of more than 50 mm which are forecast north of Le Havre.”

It should be noted that this is the first somewhat serious episode, “we know that last year, it was the repetition of rainy episodes that posed a problem in Pas-de-Calais, so we are not at all in this situation yet“, concludes Guillaume Ferry.