The weather Thursday: Rainy passage with wind in the north, cloudy near the Mediterranean

Marlène Duret with AFP 8:04 p.m., February 23, 2022

A new disturbed wave will reach regions from Brittany to the Belgian borders on Thursday morning.

It will be accompanied by light precipitation, but also by a moderate to fairly strong wind, at the beginning of the afternoon, in particular on the coastal departments of the Channel with gusts at 60/80 km/h, and no more than 70 km/h in the Paris region.

Winds up to 100 km/h on the coast 

It is on the Hauts-de-France that the gale will be the most sensitive with gusts ranging from 60 to 80 km / h inland and from 90 to 100 km / h on the Somme and the coast.

The slightly rainy and narrow front will move quickly and will extend, in the afternoon, from Aquitaine to Centre-Val-de-Loire as far as Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, with a moderate to quite wind. strong in the Grand Est from 60 to locally 85 km/h.

At the end of the afternoon and first part of the night, the disturbance will finish crossing France, giving rains over Rhône-Alpes, Franche-Comté, the Vosges mountains and Alsace, in the form of flakes between 800 and 1000 m in the mountains. .

Up to 18 degrees in the south 

Nice clearings will develop quickly behind the disturbed passage, on the north-western quarter of France.

Further south, a few gray spells or ephemeral fogs in the Garonne valley will start the day.

But the sky will generally be variable, more cloudy from the South-West to the Massif Central and Rhône-Alpes.

In the morning, sea entries will load the sky from Languedoc to Provence to Aveyron and Tarn, then the sky will gradually clear.

As for temperatures, the minimums will range from 3 to 8 degrees, with some possible frosts in the Northeast, and 7 to 10 degrees near the coast.

The maximum will generally vary from 9 to 13 degrees on the northern half of France and from 13 to 18 on the southern half.