If Ascension Thursday is summery everywhere in France, the heat and the sun should disappear after the Ascension Bridge…
This has probably not escaped you: the sun and the heat reappeared this Ascension Thursday, everywhere in France, after a long period of gloomy weather, with temperatures below seasonal norms. As Meteo Consult points out, the month of April saw a deficit of -7% in sunshine nationally, with even a 15 to 30% deficit in the northern half. This Thursday, May 9 afternoon, on the other hand, the mercury will rise to 25°C in the southwest of the country and even in Finistère! Friday May 10 will also be a beautiful day across the country, with still the mildest temperatures in the southwest. Same program for Saturday May 11 and Sunday May 12, with temperatures approaching 30°C on the southwest coast, according to forecasts from Ta Météo.
We must take advantage of it, because the return of the sun will be fleeting, just long enough for the Ascension Bridge! From Sunday, everything is gone: the weather will once again be unstable and stormy, with weak anticyclonic pressure. Result: the week from May 13 to 19 will be rainy and cooler… There will be no more sun on the horizon except on the Côte d’Azur and Corsica. Highs will barely reach 20 degrees in the afternoon.
Successive waves of storms are also forecast from the southwest to the northeast, as well as heavy precipitation and a new risk of hail. And this stormy trend will continue even the week of May 20 to 26! Only the south-east and the Mediterranean will once again be excluded…