The day will be wintry throughout the country, forecasts Météo-France, which placed Haute-Savoie on Friday morning in orange vigilance “ice snow”. Significant snowfall will occur at the end of the night and at the beginning of the day in the west of the department and locally in the east of Ain. Eleven centimeters of snow were noted in particular in Evian at 5:30 a.m., and seven centimeters in Bonneville.
Similarly, freezing rain may occur at the end of the night on a central-eastern portion of Paris, from the north of the Massif Central towards Franche-Comté, indicates Météo-France. The grayness will be in place throughout the day in the regions from Poitou-Charentes to Lorraine, even if a few ephemeral clearings will try to break through in the afternoon.
The risk of showers will be present along the Channel coasts, they could make the roads slippery inland at the very beginning of the day and the following evening, where temperatures will be lower.
The sky will be overcast
Further south, the sky will remain overcast. It will rain lightly until the beginning of the afternoon from the Aquitaine coast to the Vosges mountains. The rain-snow limit will oscillate between 800 m on the Jura and 1,200 m on the south of the Alps. In the afternoon, the precipitation will fade, only affecting the northern Alps in the evening.
The rains will return to the west of the Pyrenees in the second part of the day, extending for the evening to the entire chain up to the foothills, the rain-snow limit being around 1,400 to 1,800 m. In Corsica, the sky will be overcast, giving showers which will become stormy over the hours. The south-westerly wind will blow from 70 to 90 km / h in the morning, a notch lower from midday.
Minimum temperatures will be around 0 to -3 degrees over the northern two-thirds of the country, from 0 to 6 further south but will reach 6 to 9 over the Mediterranean arc. The maximum will be between +1 and +3 degrees on the North-East quarter, between 3 and 6 on the North-West, between 6 and 12 further south, 14 to 15 on the shores of the Mediterranean, up to 19 at 20 on the Corsican shore.