The disturbed and temperate episode at the start of the week will give way this weekend to summer temperatures for the school holidays. From Friday, the 30°C mark will generally be exceeded in France, except on the coast of Brittany and along the Channel. “An episode of heat, the first of the season on the scale of France begins Friday”, announces Météo-France.

Peaks of 35°C are expected in New Aquitaine, and possible as far as Burgundy. On Saturday, a drop in temperatures is expected in the northwestern regions but the heat will increase in the east. The maximum could reach 35 to 36 ° C in the Rhone Valley and the interior of Provence, with peaks at 37 ° C. Elsewhere, on the eastern half, and Corsica, they will generally be between 32 and 35 ° C. On Sunday, the heat should rise a notch further in the east of the country, with peaks at 35-36 ° C in Burgundy and Alsace. On the minimum side, they could reach 15 to 19 degrees in Normandy, Brittany and Hauts-de-France on Saturday and Sunday.

Friday evening, strong thunderstorms come up from Spain on the extreme southwest, they reach the plains of Aquitaine and Occitania then. Hail and strong gusts are present under the most intense cells. Saturday, rather scattered stormy showers develop at midday from Pays de la Loire to Normandy, they shift in the afternoon towards the Center, the Paris Basin and Hauts-de-France. Then on Sunday, a stormy degradation rises in the morning from the center-west to the north of the country, evacuating in the evening by the Belgian border.