Snow to hit most of France this week. Cars, pavements and a street in Toulouse covered by a blanket of snow
Snow is expected to cover large parts of France on Wednesday, according to Météo-France.
The national forecaster has predicted that snow showers will hit large swathes of the country from Hauts-de-France in the north to Nouvelle Aquitaine in the southwest as polar air heads south. Even Paris is expected to get its first dusting of the winter.
Météo-France said that a cold front will bring snow first to the north and east of the country and then the Massif Central from Wednesday, the first official day of winter, and will spread south and west in the hours and days that follow.
Most of the country is likely to experience some snow on Thursday, while the capital can expect its share overnight into Friday, although it is not expected to last long and at low levels the amount of snow falling is likely to be small, though several centimetres of snow could be recorded in the Grand-Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
The overnight forecast on Thursday November 30 into Friday December 1
Mediterranean regions should, mostly, remain dry and cold - though some local snow showers could make their way to low-lying areas of the former Languedoc Rousillon and western Corsica.
More snow is forecast in the east of the country on Saturday, notably in parts of Provence-Côte d'Azur and Corsica. Once the weather front has passed, Météo-France warned that most of the country will experience low temperatures and heavy frosts. It has forecast overnight temperatures as low as -11C in higher-altitude areas of Provence-Côte d'Azur.
Comment: In both hemispheres we're seeing increasingly destructive rain and hail, earlier and heavier snowfall with frequently erratic seasonal shifts; it's clear there are great changes afoot on our planet:
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- US: Polar vortex to bring 'extended period of severe winter weather', amidst already record breaking cold
- The state of ice and snow in Northern Hemisphere 2017
- Violent weather anomaly brings giant hail, unseasonal snow and destructive winds in New South Wales, Australia (VIDEO)
- Powerful Bering Sea storm undergoes incredible bombogenesis, producing 90 MPH winds in Alaska's Aleutian Islands
- Giant hail hits Formosa, Argentina damaging more than 1,000 buildings
- Freak hailstorm injures dozens and destroys 50 homes in Zimbabwe
- Winter storm covers Hawaii summits in snow
And for more information on why these increasingly strange changes are happening on earth and in our skies, check out Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk's book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection
That might explain the country's comorbid conditions which have allowed it to ignore reality in so many ways.
R.C.