Thursday's weather will be marked by strong instability in most of the country, with the Pas-de-Calais in orange alert for flood risks, according to Météo-France forecasts. Over most of the country, the day will be under a cloudy sky carrying showers and sometimes even sleet, interspersed with short thunderstorms, with occasional storms.
The rain will be transformed into snow from 1,500 meters on the Alps, and from 1,800 to 2,000 meters on the Pyrenees. In the evening, precipitation will intensify both north of the Seine and on the southwest. The Mediterranean regions and the Rhone Valley will be relatively spared, with transient rains in the morning and then drier and brighter, sometimes veiled in the afternoon.
Gusts up to 150 km / h at Cap Corse
Only western Corsica is exposed to showers all day long. The wind will become strong again on the relief and the north of the island in the afternoon with gusts up to 100 to 120 km / h, even 150 to Cape Corsica. On the rest of the country, the wind will blow more moderately than the day before: the gusts will reach 70 km / h on the coasts of the Channel and Atlantic in the morning, 70 km / h in the area of the Tramontane and the Coast d'Azur.
Tomorrow morning, it will be between 6 and 10 degrees in general, sometimes 10 to 13 degrees by the sea. The maximum temperatures will reach 10 to 14 in general, 13 to 15 south of the Garonne, 15 to 17 around the Mediterranean, up to 17 to 19 degrees in Corsica.