WEEKEND WEATHER: The forecast for the weekend in Lorient is for a nice springlike Saturday, but a stormy episode on Sunday …
The central Atlantic anticyclone with Central Europe blocks the oceanic disturbed flow. The weekend of March 30th and 31st, 2019, the sun will be generous in the area of Lorient, before a stormy episode Sunday afternoon.
Saturday 30th March, 2019
Mists and misty atmosphere in the early hours of the day before a sunny morning with beautiful rise of mercury in the area of Lorient . Generous sun and beautiful sweetness at midday. In the afternoon, the spring sun, omnipresent from Groix to Lorient via the peninsula of Gâvres, is embellished with beautiful and discreet cumulus of good weather north of an axis “Quéven-Hennebont-Kervignac”.
Wind easterly southeast, weak on the mainland, weak to moderate over Groix (gusts 25-35 km/h). From Kerroc’h to Guidel Plage: beautiful sea. Min: 5 / 6 degrees; max: 15 / 16 degrees; (from 4 / 5 degrees to 16 / 17 degrees north of “Gestel-Lanester-Kervignac”). Clear skies in the evening; 12 degrees at 8pm and 8 degrees at midnight.
Sunday 31st March, 2019
Morning mists at dawn preceding a bright and foggy atmosphere in the early morning, then a second sunny part with rapid rise in mercury. Generous sun and softness at midday. In the afternoon, the sun, generous on the littoral border and Lorient, is aggravated with cumulus clouds, developing more and more north of a “Quéven-Lanester-Kervignac” axis, generating sometimes stormy showers from 4 pm to 5pm
After 6pm, the instability descends towards Lanester and the north of Lorient; the littoral border, and the axis Ploemeur / Lorient-south / Locmiquelic remaining to protect with nice clearings and cumulus. Weak winds from east to southeast. From Kerroc’h to Guidel Plage: beautiful sea. Min: 6 / 7 degrees ; max: 16 / 17 degrees (from 5 / 6 degrees to 17 / 18 degrees north of “Gestel-Lanester-Kervignac”). The cumulus dissipates quickly via the return of a stronger north-east wind (gusts 35-45 km/h, 45-55 on Groix); 14 degrees at 8pm and 8 degrees at midnight.
Spring decade
With an average of 16.31 ° (March 21 to 29), the third dekad of March 2019 appears as the third softest since 1983, after the 19.27 ° of 2012, the 17.85 ° of the year. 2003 and close to the 15.98 ° of 2017. If last year, the third dekad of March generated 11.4 ° of average, the years 2013, then further in time 1992 and the trio 1985 to 1987, have generated a third decade of late winter with almost 9 ° to 10.5 ° average.
