This weekend, the situation is likely to be mixed, shared between very many clouds in the North-East and the sun.
Sunshine all day in the plains and in the valleys, contrasted by very many clouds in the northeast of the country: an overall very calm situation, indicates La Chaîne Météo. On Saturday, the sun should shine in the Mediterranean, in the South-West but also in the mountains. But everywhere else, the clouds are still present and sometimes even accompanied by snow in Alsace and Lorraine in the morning. Sunday, the calm weather persists, with gray weather in many plains regions and in the valleys and sunshine in the mountains and in the South.
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The weather in your area:
In the configuration of this Saturday, France is cut in two, globally at the level of the axis of the Loire and the central regions.
North of the Loire, the weather is gray and often very foggy in the morning. Thinnings still pierce on the Breton tip, in particular from Morbihan to Pays de la Loire. The greyness is thick in the northeast with some light rain in the north of Lorraine and Alsace, and a bit of snow to the north of the Vosges from 300 to 400 m altitude. In this generally gray context, the atmosphere is very foggy in Ile-de-France, Beauce, and especially the Center region. On the latter, given temperatures close to 0°C, fogs are locally freezing, between Sologne and the Loire Valley.
The afternoon, visibility is improving and cloud thinnings manage to break through at the level of the Loire, in Brittany and locally on the Côte d’Opale, but from the Paris basin to the North-East, the sky is likely to remain very gray all day.
The temperatures are seasonal, that is to say winter: they are close to 0°C in the morning, and do not exceed 4° to 7°C from Strasbourg to Brest in the afternoon.
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South of the Loire, the weather forecast looks more favourable, a bit like the day before. The sky is often clear in the morning on the reliefs, from the Jura to the Alps, Massif-Central and the Pyrenees, with severe frosts in the mountains (locally -8°C in Auvergne). In the plain, the grayness extends from the Lorraine plateaux to Burgundy and northern Auvergne, as far as the plains (Limagne, Forez, Dauphiné and Lyonnais). The Val de Saône remains fairly open.
Patches of mist are locally present in the plains of the South-West. Everywhere, on this southern half, it is cold with jellies sometimes quite marked, including near the coasts (South-West, Provence). Mistral and Tramontana are still blowing, but weaker now.
The afternoon, the southern half of France is experiencing good weather. The wind is less present than the day before between the Massif-Central and the Gulf of Lion, which therefore feels less cold. However, the temperatures remain at about the same level, still showing a deficit in the plains of the South-West. In the mountains, the big blue is assured.
The southeast quarter enjoys good weather, cold in the morning with frosts even around the Gulf of Lion and Provençal, in places sheltered from the wind. The wind is blowing less strongly than the day before but is still present in the middle and lower Rhône valley, as well as in the mountains. The Côte d’Azur is sheltered from the wind: it is therefore better there, just like in Corsica, where the sky remains a little cloudier.