Rain, thunderstorms, cool temperatures… What is the weather forecast for this week ?

La pluie sera encore au rendez-vous cette semaine. ILLUSTRATION Midi Libre – SYLVIE CAMBON

Le temps reste perturbé cette semaine, avec des fortes pluies et des orages au programme. Météo-France alerte sur le risque de crues de plusieurs départements, notamment en Occitanie où un épisode cévenol est toujours en cours.

After a gloomy and rainy weekend, marked by severe bad weather, particularly in the Rhône and Languedoc, where an episode in the Cévennes continues, the last days of April promise to be just as humid, warns Météo-France in its morning bulletin for this Monday, April 29.

The rainy axis which stretched from Languedoc towards Franche-Comté is shifting towards the west little by little. The rain will be there – you over a large part of France, in particular this Monday April 29 where heavy rain is expected from Occitanie towards Burgundy.

Flood risks

The accumulations promise to be significant in Occitanie but beneficial from Hérault to the Pyrénées-Orientales, notes the forecaster.  Météo France places four departments of Occitanie on yellow alert for risks floods; Hérault, Gard, Aveyron and Lozère are concerned.

Épisode cévenol: Cumuls en 3 jours depuis vendredi mi-journée. Les 200mm ont été dépassés malgré des intensités horaires restant modérées (27mm/h max sur Cévennes ardéchoises). #cevennes #vigilancejaune
Restez informés https://t.co/Rjr8doTgIi https://t.co/agdfZRWU6S pic.twitter.com/xX9oX3AGL8

— Météo-France Sud-Est (@MeteoFrance_SE) April 28, 2024

According to La Chaîne Météo, the Cévennes episode should continue until this Wednesday, May 1, with several heavily rainy sequences. The heavy rains take on a marked stormy character over the Hérault.

Temperatures below seasonal norms

In the coming days, temperatures will range from 14 °C to 17 °C in the north of the country and 12  °C to 18 °C in the South. They will be 4 °C to 5 °C lower than seasonal norms, locally a little more.

France should remain under the influence of the cold drop until Friday May 2. It is only from the weekend that the sun could return, in most regions. Temperatures would then return to seasonal values ​​with around twenty degrees and should even approach 25 °C this first Sunday in May from North to South-East.