Here are the weather forecast for the weekend leading up to Christmas for Lorient and the surrounding area. Plenty of grey skies are predicted although it should be mild temperatures for Christmas
Saturday
Fog and mist at dawn progressing to cover and hazy sky in the morning. Little change in mid-day under a cloud dense cover with remaining rare drizzle. In the afternoon, the sky remains cloudy, hazy appearance, with rare drizzle, despite the massive presence of the anticyclone of the Atlantic centered in Brittany.
Wind is very low veering southwest morning low in mid-day and afternoon. Fort Blocked: westerly swell <1 m. Low: 7 / 8 degrees; maximum: 11 / 12 degrees; (6 / 7 degrees to 11 / 12 degrees inland). Overcast, grey and misty evening with light drizzle and a lingering sweetness; 9 degrees from 8pm to midnight.
Sunday
Overcast, grey and foggy in the morning and midday with light intermittent drizzle generating a great feeling of moisture. No changes during the afternoon when the humidity that continues to circulate in the central Atlantic coast of the English Channel via Britain, generates, despite this very high pressure, overcast, hazy appearance and quite grey with small intermittent drizzle under a small variation of mercury.
Low wind south and southwest in the afternoon (low to moderate Groix). Fort Blocked: westerly swell 1m. Low: 8 / 9 degrees; maximum: 11 / 12 degrees (7 / 8 degrees to 11 / 12 degrees inland). Overcast, grey and mild with a low mist; 10 degrees from 8pm to midnight.
Monday
Overcast, grey and misty morning with light drizzle. By mid-day, the arrival of a new disturbance generates overcast with moderate rain at first then becoming continuous and abundant enough from 4pm.
Moderate wind from the southwest in the morning freshening (force 5 gusting 65-75 km/h, 80-90 Groix and exposed headlands). Fort Blocked: westerly swell 1.5 and 2.5 m. Low: 8 / 9 degrees; maximum: 11 / 12 degrees (7 / 8 degrees to 11 / 12 degrees inland). The skies will be unstable with showers and gusts in the evening (southwest and west of 60-70km/h).
