After a summery start to the week, the weather is going to get worse on Thursday. The beginnings of unstable weather as we approach the last weekend of the school holidays. The sky is overcast this morning on the Aquitaine coast. "We are expecting some fairly disorganized, but occasionally heavy, thunderstorms," warns La Chaîne Météo.
The storms will then reach the Pays de Loire on Thursday afternoon and "will spread towards the Centre then the Paris Basin and the Ardennes in the evening and following night", adds Météo France.
Deterioration in Paris from Friday morning. In Aquitaine, a new storm is expected during the night from Thursday to Friday and will move north. The regions of Poitou-Charentes to Île-de-France, Normandy and also Hauts-de-France are affected by the risk of storms.
"In Paris, showers will be possible from the morning, and could become stormy from midday, with an improvement in the evening," specifies Météo France. The key is a drop in temperatures "approaching seasonal values in the north-west half" with 21°C expected in the afternoon in the capital. In the South-East, however, the weather will remain summery.
The forecasts predict an unstable weekend, due to "a slow movement of a cold Atlantic droplet over the country," explains Météo France. The risk of thunderstorms could again affect the western regions on Saturday, then could progress further east on Sunday. Temperatures should remain above seasonal averages.
Mildness at daybreak, stormy deterioration in New Aquitaine, strong heat in Alsace in the south-east, drop in temperatures in the west... Discover today's weather according to the latest report from La Chaîne Météo.*
Warm morning in the eastern half. Thunderstorms are expected in the Bay of Biscay and are circulating in Aquitaine with heavy precipitation. Ahead of this stormy deterioration, the sky is chaotic over the Pays de la Loire and Poitou with sun and clouds. A few clouds also hover over Brittany and Normandy. Elsewhere, the sun shines, except for a few banks of low coastal clouds in Languedoc-Roussillon. It quickly gets hot in the sun over a large eastern half.
Temperatures are rising at daybreak with 17°C in Paris, 18°C in Bordeaux and Dijon, 20°C in Biarritz, 22°C in Marseille and 25°C in Nice. Cloudy afternoon. The weather remains unstable in New Aquitaine with skies still cloudy with a few stormy showers. Clouds are moving up from the southwest towards the Centre-Val de Loire and Île-de-France but the weather remains dry. Elsewhere, the sun continues to shine with a very summery feeling in the east and south-east with strong heat. Rare stormy showers may break out at the end of the afternoon on the Alpine terrain and the Corsican mountains.
Temperatures are dropping in the west and northwest with 23°C in Rennes, 24°C in La Rochelle and Lille. It is still very hot in the east and south-east with temperatures of 29 to 34°C. Heavy evening. Hot and muggy weather is expected over much of the country. Cooler air seeps into the northwest. Weather conditions remain unstable in Aquitaine with stormy showers.
Trend of the next days. On Friday, instability arriving from the southwest gains ground towards the northwest and the Paris Basin with a risk of stormy showers. The eastern and southeastern regions. For the weekend, the stormy trend is gaining ground but storms often circulate randomly.
