Part of France is placed on snow-ice yellow vigilance all day Thursday.
The cold snap increases at the end of the week as a polar air mass arrives in France from Wednesday November 20, 2024. Temperatures drop “to mid-winter levels”, notes Météo France. “Temperatures should peak between 5 and 10°C at the best of the day, values comparable to the January averages.”
Precipitation is also expected, which could cause snow to fall in the plains. Météo France places 41 departments on yellow “snow-ice” vigilance for the day of Thursday, November 21, 2024. A move to orange vigilance cannot be ruled out throughout the day:
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The departments concerned: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Isère, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Ain, Jura, Doubs, Haute-Saône, Vosges, Haut-Rhin, Haute-Marne, Côte-d'Or, Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Nièvre, Yonne, Aube, Loiret, Cher, Loir-et-Cher, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Eure-et-Loir, Eure, Calvados, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et- Loire, Mayenne, Manche, Ille-et-Vilaine, Loire-Atlantique, Côtes-d'Armor, Morbihan, Finistère, Seine-et-Marne, Essonne, Yvelines, Val-d'Oise and Paris.
“The regions going from Lower Normandy, to the Pays de la Loire, via the Center and Burgundy to Franche-Comté currently seem the most privileged to observe a small layer of snow on the ground. “Uncertainty is still present on the extension of the snow episode towards regions further north of this axis (Brittany, Île-de-France, Alsace-Lorraine)”.
Big gusts of wind this Thursday
The day promises to be disrupted in almost all of France in terms of weather, almost the entire country is affected by a yellow alert. In a large southwest quarter, wind vigilance prevails due to the Caetano depression which crosses the country from west to east. “In the southern part of the depression, more precisely on the Atlantic coasts from Aquitaine to Pays-de-Loire up to the Massif Central, strong wind gusts that can exceed 100 km/h are possible. orange “strong wind” is not excluded in future updates of the vigilance map.”
Seven departments are also on rain-flood alert: Hautes-Pyrénées, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes, Gironde, Dordogne, Corrèze, Cantal and Aveyron.
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