Marlène Duret, with AFP 7:22 p.m., February 17, 2022

Friday will be marked by a strong south-westerly gale in the north of the country requiring the passage of orange wind vigilance for four departments (76,80,62,59).

The southwesterly gale will sweep the north of the country.

Gusts of wind blowing up to 90 to 100 km/h will hit Brittany and Normandy then gradually move east. 

Friday will be marked by a strong south-westerly gale in the north of the country requiring the passage of orange wind vigilance for four departments (76,80,62,59) announces the Météo-France bulletin.

A rain-snow limit around 1,000m in the Pyrenees

At daybreak an active disturbance will water Brittany and the Cotentin.

Further east, from Pays de la Loire to Île de France, Hauts de France and the Grand-Est, the sky will be overcast, light precipitation will occur at times.

Greyness will dominate from Aquitaine towards Limousin and Poitou-Charentes, banks of mist or fog will even be possible.

Thick high clouds will cover the Massif Central and the northern Alps.

Clearings will largely dominate from the Pyrenees towards Languedoc-Roussillon, the PACA region and Corsica, even if a few pockets of low clouds may obscure the sky towards the Gulf of Lion and the north of the Island of Beauty.

Over the hours, the disturbed wave will sweep the country.

At midday, sometimes heavy rains will water the regions ranging from the North-East borders to the Aquitaine coast.

In the afternoon, these precipitations will stretch from the Jura massif north of the Alps towards the Massif Central and the Pyrenees.

The rain-snow limit in the Alps will be around 2,000 m at the start of the episode, then will drop to 800 to 1,400 m at the end of the day, around 1,000 m in the Pyrenees.

Gusts of up to 130 km/h

Aft, a trolling regime will set in, alternating between cloudy periods and sunny spells, showers will be rather rare.

Languedoc-Roussillon and the PACA region will continue to benefit from rather generous sunshine.

The southwesterly gale will sweep the north of the country.

Gusts of wind blowing up to 90 to 100 km/h will hit Brittany and Normandy then gradually shift to the east, reaching up to 130 in the coastal region of Hauts de France, 90 in the Paris basin, 90 in 100 on the Grand-Est at the end of the day.

A wave-submersion vigilance is also launched on the coast of Pas de Calais, Somme and Seine-Maritime.

The Tramontane will rise at the end of the day to reach 60 to 70 km/h. 

The minimums will be between 6 and 10 degrees.

The maximum will range from 11 to 12 degrees towards the Channel coasts to 18 to 20 in the South-East.