Weather Wednesday: prolonged lull with clouds to the northwest

Marlène Duret, with AFP 7:12 pm, January 11, 2022

Orange "flood" vigilance is maintained in 8 departments: Haute-Garonne (31), Gers (32), Gironde (33), Landes (40), Lot-et-Garonne (47), Pyrenees -Atlantiques (64), Hautes-Pyrénées (65) and Tarn-et-Garonne (82) Meteo-France announces.

Some light rain or drizzle will be possible in the morning near the English Channel

From Brittany to Pays de Loire and Normandy, to the Belgian border, Wednesday will take place under many clouds. Some light rain or drizzle will be possible in the morning near the English Channel, while in the afternoon we can hope for a few brief clearings in places. From Languedoc-Roussillon to PACA, east of the Alps as well as in Corsica, the sun will prevail in the morning, the mistral and the tramontane which will still reach 60 to 80 km / h at the start of the day will weaken. On the Isle of Beauty, the north wind will strengthen to 80 to 90 km / h before weakening at the end of the day.

In the rest of the country, conditions will be wintry in the early morning, with numerous low clouds or freezing fogs in the plains and valleys, from Lorraine and Alsace to the Center Val de Loire, eastern Poitou and up to Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, as well as in the South-West, a clear but cold weather elsewhere.

In the morning the greyness will slowly dissipate and the sun will prevail, a few patches of low cloud may nevertheless persist, particularly towards the Alsace plain, the Val de Saône or the Garonne valley.

Generalized frosts in the land

Minimum temperatures will remain positive in Brittany, Pays-de-la-Loire, Normandy and the west of Hauts de France, between 1 and 6 degrees, or even 6 to 10 degrees in Brittany and Cotentin.

Likewise on the coastal borders, the minimum will go from 1 to 6 degrees.

In the interior, on the other hand, the frosts will become generalized, most often between -5 and 0 degrees, down to -6 / -7 in the Massif Central, the Pré-Alpes and the Jura foothills.

In the afternoon, the maximums will remain between 0 and 5 degrees from Grand-Est in Berry and Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, they will range from 5 to 10 degrees in the rest of the country, they will reach 9 to 12 degrees in Brittany. and the Cotentin, 10 to 15 degrees on the Mediterranean rim.