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French weekly weather forecast March 23 - 27: Temperatures to drop of up to 10C
Polar winds are set to sweep in from the north. Morning frosts to return
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French weekend weather forecast March 21 - 22: calm but cold front in south-east
Rain and snow will pepper Alps on Sunday as temperatures drop but sunny weekend elsewhere
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Storm Thèrese to bring gales of 100 km/h to south-west France
Atlantic storm will see ‘autan’ winds in Tarn and Haute-Garonne peak
Tide turns Mont-Saint-Michel into an island
Video shows how French World Heritage site was cut off from the mainland for several hours
High tides temporarily turned Mont-Saint-Michel in France into an island on Monday.
VIDEO: Mont-Saint-Michel island cut off during extremely high tide.
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Such a high tide is a rare phenomenon - in the space of a few hours water even covers the raised bridge connecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site to the outside world pic.twitter.com/mgTtWmI3Zq
The phenomenon, which can take place up to 20 times a year, saw the World Heritage site cut off from the mainland for several hours, as the 760m curving bridge - opened in 2014 - to the island flooded, as it is designed to do.
