Temperatures will drop drastically over the next few days. The weather will be cool this Saturday and temporarily unstable in general, windy and dry along the Mediterranean, according to Météo-France. A cold wave will sweep across France from this Sunday.
Temperatures will begin to drop on Saturday and the feeling will be accentuated by the northerly breeze which sets in. The minimums will generally vary between 1 and 5 degrees in the interior with some frost possible in the North-East and the Massif Central, and from 6 to 10 near the coast. The maximums will also begin to drop with 5 to 8 degrees in general, 8 to 10 degrees near the Atlantic coast, and 11 to 15 degrees near the Big Blue.
Tuesday, coldest day
The frosts should start to arrive in the plains from Sunday before becoming widespread during the night from Sunday to Monday. Next week, temperatures are expected to gradually drop more than 10 degrees nationwide. And Tuesday is expected to be the coldest day.
As for precipitation: Saturday, the weather will remain dry and increasingly sunny as the hours go by, from the lower Rhône valley to Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon, thanks to a strong mistral and a tramontane blowing from 80 to 100 km/h during the day.
From Brittany to Normandy to northern Aquitaine, the weather will also remain dry and quite sunny. A few fog banks may be present at daybreak but will dissipate quickly during the day.
Snow in the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Massif Central
Elsewhere, in a flow which establishes itself to the north, it will be much more mixed with a sky alternating between clearings and cloudy passages carrying a few showers here and there.
Showers will be more numerous in the northern Alps, the north of the Massif Central and the Pyrenees. They will be more marked in the Basque Country and on the Landes coast where the accumulations could be significant.
Snow will fall around 800/900 m in the Pyrenees and around 600 to 700 m in the Alps and the Massif Central. A few snowflakes are expected in the Vosges above 600 m in the evening.