The weather Wednesday: light rain or showers under cloudy skies, rising temperatures

Marlène Duret, with AFP 7:19 p.m., April 05, 2022

From the north of New Aquitaine to the west of the Vosges, to the Massif Central and to the east of the Pyrenees, from Wednesday morning the sky will be very cloudy overcast, announces Météo-France in its forecast.

The rains or showers will be quite frequent, the rain-snow limit will be around 1,600 to 1,700 m on the Pyrenean chain.

Lasting rain over Corsica in the afternoon 

On the other hand, from Languedoc and PACA to the Alps, the weather will be drier and brighter in the morning before the arrival of clouds and rain in the afternoon, snowfall will occur on the Alpine massif from 1,800 m .

On Corsica on the other hand, the sky will be overcast in the morning and the rain will fall durably in the afternoon.

On the rest of the country, the few clearings will be brief.

Near the English Channel in particular, the clouds will regain the advantage in the morning.

From Brittany to Nord-Pas-de-Calais, numerous showers will break out before midday, accompanied by a strengthening of the south-westerly wind up to 60 to 80 km/h, sometimes 90 km/h on the ribs.

During the afternoon, this turbulent weather will extend to the Belgian border and the Pays de Loire, passing through the Paris region.

Minimum temperatures will range between 2 and 7 degrees over the southern half

Minimum temperatures will range between 2 and 7 degrees in the southern half, locally -1 to +1 degrees in the interior of Provence or near the Pyrenees, between 4 and 10 degrees in the northern half and in the plains of Languedoc-Roussillon.

The maximum will vary from 10 to 15 degrees in general, 14 to 17 degrees around the Mediterranean.