With a promising start to the week (beautiful sunny spells in most French regions and temperatures reaching 24°C in some departments such as the Landes), this weekend promises to be rainy or even stormy.

No city will miss this weather degradation. Indeed, even if some cities will experience temperatures more or less in line with the average for the season (including Lille where it will be 12°C on Saturday afternoon), these are still falling.

The weather will cool down throughout France with a temperature that can drop to 6°C, as is the case for Seine-Maritime.

This weather change will start on Friday evening with rains and thunderstorms which are mainly located in the south-west and north-east of France. On Saturday, it will cool off and gray skies will persist in most departments.

In the process, Sunday will be a little more gloomy and will experience showers which will extend from the northwest, but spring temperatures will begin to return in certain French regions such as the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. ‘Azur where it will be up to 20°C in the afternoon.

Find in our slideshow the 15 departments that will experience thunderstorms during the night from Saturday to Sunday: