Marlène Duret, with AFP 19h23, December 31, 2021

For the first day of the year 2021, the mildness will continue, according to Météo France which forecasts a new rainy wave coming from the west overnight from Saturday to Sunday.

Anticyclonic conditions will persist over the country favoring the presence of a lot of low level humidity.

The mildness will continue on Saturday, according to Météo France which forecasts a new rainy wave coming from the west overnight from Saturday to Sunday.

Anticyclonic conditions will persist over the country, favoring the presence of a lot of low level humidity at this time of the year.

Numerous low clouds will persist throughout the day over the Mediterranean arc, going up to the middle Rhône valley as well as on the Isle of Beauty.

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A hazy sky further north

Further north, from the Loire estuary towards Brittany to the Normandy beaches, the sky will be obscured by high clouds at daybreak.

These clouds will become more and more dense over the course of the day, announcing the arrival of a new rainy degradation which will stagnate for a good part of the day in the regions near the English Channel.

From Nouvelle-Aquitaine to Occitanie, from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region to the interior of the PACA region, the few morning fogs will subside over the hours to give way to a fairly generous sunshine, thwarted at times of shallow high altitude clouds.

A sensitive wind on the English Channel

From Hauts-de-France going towards Île-de-France, Center-Val-de-Loire and Grand-Est, fogs and low clouds will evolve slowly, less favorably towards the Saône Valley.

The southerly to southwesterly wind will be sensitive on the Channel coasts.

It will reach 40 to 50 km / h in peaks.

The nocturnal greyness will keep temperatures at a good level on the northern third of the country as well as on the shores of the Mediterranean with minimums between 7 and 11 degrees, they will be between 4 and 7 in the south, around 9 to 12 on the Atlantic coast.

the maximums will always be just as gentle with 10 degrees towards Lyon, 12 degrees towards Strasbourg, 13 in Paris, 14 in Lille, 15 in Brest and Nice, 18 in Toulouse, up to 21 to 24 in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.