Be careful if you drive in the Bouches-du-Rhône and the Var this Sunday. Météo France has placed these two departments of the South-East on orange alert for the risks associated with snow and ice.
On the east of the Bouches-du-Rhône, the west of the Var, the east of Vaucluse and the west of the Alpes de Hautes-Provence, the snow accumulations could reach 2 to 5 cm in the plain, from 5 to 10 cm above 400 m.
The snowy episode is expected tonight and Monday. It is “not exceptional for the region, but sufficiently notable to make traffic conditions difficult at the end of the afternoon and evening of Sunday”, writes Météo France at midday, announcing “expected accumulations”.
On the rest of France, “a disturbed weather has settled in the Mediterranean while cold air pushed by an increasingly present north to northeast wind is progressing over the whole country”, notes Meteo France.
Mistral and tramontana will strengthen, blowing from 90 to 110 km/h. The east-northeast wind will blow hard on the Var coast in the afternoon and evening with peaks at 90 km/h. On the Alpine peaks, gusts can reach 90/100 km/h. Near the Pyrenees, the sky will also be very cloudy, with some snow from 600 m.
The cold sets in
On the rest of the country, except on the Channel coasts where a few light showers will occur at the start of the day, dry, sunny but colder weather will set in. The northeast wind will blow quite strongly, the cold will be sharp. On the Norman and Breton coasts, the northeast wind will blow in gusts at 60/70 km / h.
Minimum temperatures will range from -4 to 0 degrees in general from east to west, 2 to 6 at the edge of the Mediterranean and on the tip of Brittany. The maximum will range from 4 to 8 degrees over a large northern half of the country, from 8 to 12 from the Southwest to the Mediterranean, 13 to 15 on the Côte d’Azur and in Corsica.