Snow, rain, wind: there will be everything.
Hans depression will fall on northern Italy (Piedmont, Lombardy) and Switzerland (Ticino, Valais). Up to 300 mm of cumulation in places are expected, especially in Swiss Ticino.
A depression which should also bring its share of bad weather in France.
Indeed, Météo France has placed three departments on orange alert. These are Savoy (avalanches) and two Corsican departments (flood rain). An orange color of rigor this Wednesday evening as well as all day Thursday.
Snow, wind, rain …
Météo France provides in particular “Remarkable avalanche activity on the massifs of Haute-Maurienne and Haute-Tarentaise (Savoie). In conjunction with the hauns of precipitation is in place on Corsica and intensify the night from Wednesday to Thursday”.
“On the third party in the country”, “The rain-snow limit around 800 to 1100 m on the Jura and the Alpine valleys, dating back to 2000-2200 on the border ridges where the expected snowfall are very important. On the rain side, it is on the east of PACA that the expected cumulation are more important with locally 40 to 60 mm and up to 80 mm on the relief areas. Corsica will be particularly watered with more than 100 mm.
Question vent : “The conditions are windy around the Gulf of Lion with notably Mistral and tramontane blowing up to 70-80 km/h, locally 90 km/h, just like on the caps and Corsican reliefs where the threshold of 100 km/h could be exceeded”.
