Météo France has just unveiled its first forecasts for the coming winter, and this one would tend to remain within the normal season.
At the end of October, it’s hard to believe that autumn has set in. With temperatures approaching 30°C in some regions of France, we can legitimately wonder if we are going to have a real winter in the months to come. Or if we will celebrate Christmas like in California, or in Australia, with a Santa Claus in swimming shorts. To try to answer this question, Météo France has unveiled its forecasts for the seasonal trends for the next three months. Result, according to their report this winter we will see: “conditions that should be close to normal, taking into account atmospheric circulation. However, the document specifies that these are averages. Indeed according to them “an alternation of milder and cooler periods remains possible.”
While a few months ago specialists feared a particularly icy winter, this hypothesis now seems entirely ruled out. The Météo France report clearly indicates do not rate “real cold signal.” According to the signals studied by meteorologists, high pressure conditions “more frequent than normal” should prevent temperatures from dropping unduly.
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A winter that is too cold could have disastrous consequences
As energy prices soar, this report from Météo France is perhaps a reassuring signal, at least as far as the energy crisis is concerned. The threat of particularly low temperatures hanging over this winter would have forced the French to turn up the heating more. An increase in the use of heaters over a given period could further weaken the electrical network. Indeed EDF is already almost certain that there will be power cuts for some users during winter consumption peaks. Electricity production has been at half mast for several weeks. Between the strikes that raged until last week in several reactors and the sites under maintenance: nearly half of EDF’s nuclear reactors were shut down at the end of September.