This Wednesday, March 27, Météo France placed three departments on orange alert for snow and ice. These are Loire, Haute-Loire and Isère. The rain-snow limit dropped to around 600 m during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, causing 10 cm of snow in Puy-en-Velay and 20 cm on the plateaus at 1,000 m altitude between now and Wednesday. mid-morning.
In the Loire and Isère, it may snow above 400 m. The snow will be heavy and sticky. It will also snow in the rest of the Alps and the Jura on Wednesday during the day. Snow has already arrived this night in Haute-Loire and in the Massif Central as shown in these images broadcast on X.
Sun in the South-East, unsettled weather in the West
In the South-East the weather will improve, the sun will return from Languedoc to Var, the west wind will be moderate. In Corsica, on the other hand, the sky will be heavy, the wind will reach 80 km/h and will accompany showers with a rain-snow limit around 1,200 m.
The weather will also be disrupted in the west of the country. A rainy front will sweep across Brittany then the Atlantic coast in the morning, then stretch from Normandy to the South-West at midday, before fading away in the afternoon, shifting from Hauts-de-France to ‘in Occitania. Behind, the sky will remain cloudy over regions bordering the ocean, with a few showers in the northwest.
At the end of the afternoon, further moderate rain will affect Brittany, then the Aquitaine coast in the evening with local thunderstorms and a fairly strong westerly wind, up to 100 km/h near the coast.
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The Nelson depression arrives
Thursday, in connection with the Nelson depression, an episode of violent winds is expected in the west of the country: a worsening of the “Wind” vigilance level is possible in certain coastal departments, and is accompanied by a threat of Waves vigilance -orange level submergence for the Loire-Atlantique for the evening high seas.
The Var has been placed on orange alert, this time for wave-submersion from Thursday due to an episode of strong waves in the southern sector requiring particular vigilance.
In the morning of Thursday, on the exposed capes of the Breton tip, the most sustained gusts could even locally exceed 130 km/h. The afternoon will be marked by strong gusts with alternating showers and clearings. As well as a strong swell over a vast area from the southwest to the Channel coast.