A nice surprise upon waking in the Pyrénées-Orientales

Winter plays extensions! This Wednesday, April 16, some residents of the Pyrénées-Orientales had a nice surprise upon waking: The snow has returned to the high cantonslast night. As news Perpignan announced it, a drop in temperatures and the passage of a new disturbance gave rise to these beautiful images, less in the usual month in the middle of April, over the years.

Snow back in the Pyrenees

You never get tired of it, and even less at this period. The snow has fallen in recent hours in the Pyrénées-Orientales. As expected, stormy precipitation have swept away the driest department in France since Tuesday afternoon. And if rainy (and hail!) Showers have Bayé Perpignan and the plain, the flakes invited themselves at altitude.

Taking advantage of a sudden drop in the thermometer, the rain-snow limit also dropped last night. He snowed from 1,400 meters On the Catalan reliefs. The Cerdagne plateau, but also the Capcir and the Puymorens (where it is still snowing this Wednesday morning) were entitled to a small delivery of spring snow.

Here are the few images captured this morning at Angles (main photo), Font-Romeu Pyrénées 2000, has Porté-Puymorens or Formigueres :

The tramontane and the sun come back

A few centimeters of snow have thus covered the villages of the High Cantons, and a little more on The tracks of the ski resortsclosed since the beginning of the month. Elsewhere, we have also noted more than twenty centimeters of powder on the peaks of the coat, as confirmed by the weather station based in the refuge of Cortalets:

These snowfall may well be the latest in the season. This Wednesday and tomorrow Thursday, the tramontane is back in the Pyrénées-Orientales, and with it, the sun. Temperatures will exceed 20 ° C In Perpignan (and more than 10 ° C in the mountains), this Friday, April 18, before a weekend and an start to next week again sides, where the rain could fall again.

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