May 1st will be rainy and so will the weekend that follows. All hopes now rest on the super bridge on May 8th and 9th. Here are the forecasts.
The weather was very changeable in April. So in May, will we really be able to do “whatever we want”? For the May 1st public holiday, this already seems compromised. We will have to take out the umbrellas again. According to La Chaine Météo, the weather will remain gloomy this Wednesday with disturbances which will cross the country from east to west. Strong winds are also expected from the Cévennes to the Rhône valley, in PACA and Corsica. The only ones protected: the Alsatians who will experience some clearings. Temperatures will range between 12 and 17 degrees maximum, but with this fall weather, it could feel much lower.
This isn’t going to get better right away. The Weather Channel is predicting a similarly unsettled weekend for the weekend of May 4-5, with temperatures that are barely seasonable. France will remain under the influence of a cold drop. The disturbances will even be sustained from the southwest, to the northeast via Paris… The southeast quarter will be drier, but subject to very windy weather.
The Weather Channel has further forecasts for May 8-9. If it is still uncertain, “the weather is likely to be drier with temperatures more worthy of a month of May,” said Cyril Wuest, meteorologist at the institute in the newspaper La Dépêche. The specialized site announces the arrival of an anticyclone next week which “could bring the much-hoped-for good weather for a few days.” These beautiful days would coincide with the big bridge of May 8 and 9. If the morning coolness remains present (5 to 10 degrees), the afternoon temperature should be around 20 degrees.
As early as last week, La Chaine Météo showed optimism in its four-week trends: “The weather should finally start to dry out in this second week of May. This is good news with the big bridge on May 8 and of the Ascension”, we could read. The glimmer of hope seems to be confirmed since Météo France also indicates that “temperatures and precipitation should remain close to seasonal norms”.
The forecasts for the weekend of May 11 and 12 should still be taken with a grain of salt, with confidence indices of 2 to 3 out of 5. But the maps displayed on the Météo France website are all or almost all covered in yellow suns at this stage, with temperatures sometimes even approaching 15 degrees in the morning and 25 degrees in the afternoon.
Unfortunately, this may not last and the month of May could, in turn, prove to be changeable. The Weather Channel is currently only forecasting 3 to 4 consecutive days of good weather. Thunderstorms will even be possible in the south and in the mountains. The forecasts will obviously, again and again, need to be clarified as your days of rest approach.
