Friday weather: rain, strong winds and avalanches, orange alert in 4 departments

Marlène Duret, with AFP 7:27 p.m., April 07, 2022

The weather on Friday will be very rough, with orange vigilance for wind in Deux-Sèvres (79), Vienne (86) and Charente-Maritime (17), as well as orange vigilance for the high risk of avalanche in mountain in Savoie (73), according to Météo-France forecasts.

Gusts of 80 to 100 km / h inland, locally 110, even 120 on the Charente coast

As storm Diego passes over the country, the wind will become strong then locally violent in the afternoon over part of Poitou-Charentes, northern Aquitaine, Berry, northern Limousin and the Massif Central up to in the Cévennes, with gusts of 80 to 100 km / h inland, locally 110, even 120 on the Charente coast, on the relief and certain valleys of Auvergne.

From Pays-de-la-Loire to the south of Paris, on the Grand-Est and the Sud-Ouest in the afternoon, the wind will blow between 70 and locally 90 km / h.

In terms of precipitation, a new wave of rain will quickly invade a large northern half of France in the morning.

Precipitation will be temporarily sustained and sometimes mixed with thunderclaps from Brittany and Normandy to Ile-de-France and the Grand Est.

In the afternoon, snow may mix with rain on the Normandy hills, in the interior of Upper Normandy and from the south of Picardy to the Ardennes and the Lorraine plateau.

It can locally and very temporarily whiten the soil.

From Franche-Comté to the Alpine massif, it will still rain durably and copiously.

Snow will fall in quantity above 1,800/2,000 m in the northern Alps.

Precipitation will be more irregular in the center-west, weak and scattered in the afternoon in the south-west and the Rhône valley.

The Mediterranean rim will retain dry and bright weather, temporarily overcast.

In Corsica, violent gusts will be feared until early morning on the relief and the north of the island.

The wind will then lose some vigor.

Between 3 and 8 degrees on the northern third

In the morning, it will be between 3 and 8 degrees on the northern third, 7 to 12 going south, 12 to 15 on the shores of the Mediterranean.

In the afternoon, the maximum temperatures will reach 17 to 21 degrees south of the Garonne and in the Mediterranean regions, locally 23/24 on the Côte d'Azur, at best 6 to 9 degrees north of the Seine, and 10 to 16 for the rest of the country.