2023-12-04 15:33:00
Weather: snow expected once more this Monday, yellow alert for prolonged slippery conditions… Be careful!
An episode which completes a cold streak but which will not have broken any records. “We will experience a return to normal in the coming days,” announces Pascal Mormal, meteorologist at IRM. During the week, we will see the mercury rise around seasonal norms, reaching around twelve degrees on Sunday. A southwest ocean flow will once once more influence our weather and which will also bring rain. The quantities will not be enormous but the risk will be constant.”
As for the cold, it won’t be far away. “It will always be cold in Central Europe where the cold episode is also intense. We were on the margins in Belgium but we broke snowfall records in Munich, for example. In the Northern Alps too, snowfall has not been this high since 2010, he continues. On the heights of the Ardennes, the snow cover will still hold for a few more days but everything will have melted by the end of the week.”
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And then ? Is December still going to be as mild? “The models have revised their forecasts downwards. We will not normally reach the anomaly of one to one and a half degrees as feared, he indicates. So much the better, actually. We will have a little mildness until mid-December and then we expect new descents of polar air for the end of the month. It is very cold in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, and this can quickly influence our weather.”
From there to hoping for a white Christmas? “It should be freezing by now,” he smiles. In general, the chances are 5 to 10% in the center of the country, and 30% in the Ardennes. We will have to refine the forecasts but the cold signal concerns the last week of December.”
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