As summer vacation approaches, our eyes will turn more often to the sky and wonder what the weather will look like over the next few days. The Weather Channel provides a trend for the entire month of July, which is a four-week period.
The weather will become drier for the second half of the week, with the stormy trend that began in the south over the weekend. The very hot weather will continue in the Rhone valley and Provence. Temperatures will be close to the thresholds for heat waves between Gard-Var and Haut-Var, until Wednesday. On Monday, the tramontane will be very strong, with a break on Tuesday and then a recovery on Wednesday with the mistral. The risk of fires between Roussillon et Provence will increase again during this windy period and in strong heat.
The general flow will move southeast and south between an anticyclone over Northern Europe, and a depression west-of-Ireland. The development will create a dry, very summery period with a gradual increase in temperatures. A second more scorching period will follow with a high risk of hailstorms. The signs of deterioration have been evident enough to trigger the risk of a heatwave, but it will be brief-lived.
Storms will eventually bring some relief to the weather, but it should remain unpredictable and unstable at the beginning of the forecast, particularly in the north. The southern half of the week will see calmer and drier conditions. The temperatures should be around the normal season temperature before they rise the weekend after.
The instability that has been looming over the last week should be stopped by a more anticyclonic, dry trend. Except for the occasional storms caused by diurnal evolution of the reliefs, they should be very rare. To be clearly above average, temperatures should rise rapidly.
