All that’s missing is the polar bears. Pas-de-Calais, and more precisely, the countryside around Arras, broke a cold record during the night from Thursday to Friday. With the persistent snow, the thermometer dropped to -14.6°C, reports The voice of the North. Colder than the -14.1°C recorded in 1987 or the -12.4°C in 2013.
“The white floor reflects the heat”
The region nevertheless remains below the records recorded in 1985 with cold reaching almost -20°C in Cambrai and Lille. “This extreme cold can also be explained by the snow cover,” explains Jean-Michel Meunier, climatologist at Météo-France, to the regional daily. The white floor reflects heat, which accentuates cooling, at equivalent temperature. »
Temperature variations thus oscillated between -6°C and -14°C depending on the Hauts-de-France territories, which will still face temperatures below 0 on Saturday, before a rise in the mercury on Sunday, accompanied by strong gusts that can exceed 100 km/h on the coast.