A cold front will cross the country this Thursday evening with sustained gusts and showers. For the weekend, storm Ellen will bring little wind while we can expect 10 centimeters of snow in the Ardennes from next Friday.
For a little over two weeks, the weather has been at the heart of the news. After the Ciara storm, it was storm Dennis that blew over our country causing a lot of damage. And as if two episodes were not enough, a third is in sight for this weekend. Storm Ellen is the one threatening northern Europe this time.
But, good news, it shouldn’t be as powerful. “A priori, the threat is less strong for this weekend, announces Pascal Mormal, meteorologist at the IRM. The storm is expected to remain over northern Europe, and an average wind of 30 km / h is forecast in Belgium. This means that we could have gusts of 70 to 80 km / h inland, or even 90 km / h at the coast.“
So it will blow, but the danger will be less compared to the two weekends that we have just lived. By cons, it will be wary of the wind this Thursday evening! “A cold front will cross the country, with sustained rain and some gusts of wind at around 80 km / h. But it won’t last long”, Warns the meteorologist.
Wind, still wind, but it seems that the lull is finally coming, with the return of more winter weather for next week. “From the middle of the week, we will find temperatures close to normal for the season, with 6-7 degrees in the center of the country, and frosts in the Ardennes, he analyzes. And for the weekend, we can even hope for snow on the heights. A layer of 10 to 15 centimeters is possible.“
Paradoxically, this first real winter offensive of the year would take place on the first weekend of the meteorological spring. As a reminder, it runs from December 1 to February 29. “It will be the first time that such a thick layer of snow has formed in Belgium this year.“
Winter 2019-2020 is indeed exceptionally mild, and will certainly be one of the top 3 mildest winters in history. “The last days of winter will determine whether this winter will be the second or third milder. Winter 2007 will remain the mildest ever, but it will be played to the nearest tenth with winter 2016”, He explains.
For the moment, 2014 is still on the podium, which proves the increasingly repetitive nature of the phenomenon. “This is very worrying, and it confirms the observation that we have been making for several years.“
A graph released by Météo France on Wednesday also shows that between December 1 and February 19, the overwhelming majority of days had temperatures above the average temperatures recorded. “The scenario is the same with us“, concludes Pascal Mormal.
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