“In April, do not discover yourself with a thread”, goes the saying, and the weather forecasts do not seem to contradict it. After a month of March rich in bad weather, the beginning of April is a continuation. Indeed, the last week of March was marked by storm alerts in many departments in France. This is also the case for the first week of April.
These many rains in March have reversed the trend this winter. The Weather Channel records a rainfall indicator of 70 millimeters on average in the 30 largest cities in France. These data are beginning to reassure about the droughts that we could experience this summer. If the month of March was therefore described as “the wettest for five years”, by Cyrille Duchesne, meteorologist for the Weather Channel, what about this month? Discover in our slideshow below the departments affected by thunderstorms for the first week of April.
Gilles Matrico, meteorologist for La Chaîne Météo, announces the return of frost for this first week of April. Indeed, if certain departments were spared by the rains and showers this last week, at the level of the Mediterranean coasts, this is not necessarily the case this week. Indeed, we are crossing an anticyclone that leaves Scandinavia to reach Spain. Gilles Matrico specifies that “depressions evolve from central Europe to the Mediterranean”.
We will therefore find fewer showers this week, but morning frosts will be present in certain departments. For example, “from the south-west to the Alps and the Jura, the sky remains fairly cloudy with a risk of showers in the morning which will disappear in the afternoon. It is cool with the return of frosts in the morning in the north”, recalls Gilles Matrixon. For temperatures, we will generally be 1 to 2°C below normal for the season. So which departments are still affected by thunderstorms on Monday April 3 and Tuesday April 4, 2023?
Consult our slideshow below to find out which departments have been placed on yellow storm alert by Météo France.
