Cold record.
Météo France noted, on the night of Sunday April 3 to Monday April 4, the coldest temperatures for the month of April since 1947. The organization specified that the latest measurements were being verified.
The lowest temperatures were recorded in Champagne, where they fell to -9°C, while the frost affected almost the entire country, with the exception of intramural Paris and the Mediterranean coasts and the English Channel.
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"Rapidly falling temperatures"
"The frost affected more than 90% of the country and was more or less intense depending on the area," Météo France forecaster Patrick Galois told AFP, "there was a rapid drop in temperatures during the night but it heats up quickly."
Records have been broken in particular in Mourmelon (Marne, -9.3°C), Châteauroux (Indre, -5.6°C) and Vannes (Morbihan, -3.2°C).
“From sunrise (Monday morning), the temperatures will rise and should be positive almost everywhere around 10 a.m.,” added Patrick Galois.
According to Météo France, the layer of very fresh, very thin air dissipates quickly with the appearance of the sun and requires relatively little energy to be reduced.
"Last Cold Night"
The weather forecasting body also stressed that it should be the last cold night for the coming weeks.
In anticipation of this particularly cold night, the electricity network manager RTE had warned of a potential tense situation on Monday morning, calling on companies and individuals to curb consumption, in particular between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m.
In the agricultural world, winegrowers and market gardeners in particular have tried to best protect the buds, and therefore future harvests, which are particularly sensitive to these spring frosts.
With AFP
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