DAs of Wednesday morning, from Normandy and Hauts-de-France to the Paris region, the Centre-Val de Loire and as far as Champagne-Ardenne, the weather will be very cloudy with frequent and often stormy showers, according to forecasts from Meteo France. Over the afternoon, this disturbed weather will extend towards Lorraine, Alsace and the Jura. During the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, Météo-France reduced the number of departments in orange “heat wave” vigilance from 58 to 14, located in the south-east of the country plus the two in Alsace.
The institute has also reintroduced orange “storm” vigilance for 9 departments in the north-east of the territory: Jura, Doubs, Haute-Saône, Territoire de Belfort, Vosges, Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle. From Brittany to the Pays de Loire, to Poitou and to the north of Auvergne, there too clouds and showers will be numerous in the morning, before a lull in the course of the afternoon. On the South-West, the sky will be quite busy in the morning with a few drops possible. In the afternoon, beautiful clearings will develop between the Loire and the Garonne, they will be more timid near the Pyrenees and in Brittany.
Up to 38 degrees in the Southeast
From Languedoc to the Alps, from Franche-Comté to Alsace, after beautiful morning clearings, the sky will be cloudy on the relief in the afternoon with a risk of sometimes stormy showers on the Alpine massif. The tramontana will rise over Roussillon during the day. The Paca region and Corsica will benefit from maximum sunshine, at the cost of high temperatures.
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Minimum temperatures will range from 15 to 20 degrees on the western half of the country, 19 to 22 degrees in the east with peaks of up to 25 or 26 degrees on the Mediterranean coasts. The maximums will be down everywhere, except in the southeastern quarter, where they still reach 33 to 38 degrees. We expect 25 to 29 degrees in general, no more than 22 to 26 degrees from the coasts of the English Channel to Brittany, but 30 to 34 degrees from Roussillon to the east of the Massif Central and to the east of Lorraine and Franche-Comté, another 35 to 36 in the Alsace plain.