Snow all the way to the plains, temperatures worthy of a month of January: the first flakes of storm Caetano fell on Thursday morning on Brittany and Normandy as winter descends on France, where 54 departments are placed on orange alert for snow, ice and wind.
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This storm “will cross France from west to east and cause an early winter episode that is sufficiently notable to make traffic conditions difficult in the regions concerned,” Météo-France indicates on its website.
33 on snow-ice alert
In its Thursday bulletin at 6 a.m., Météo-France placed 54 departments on orange alert, including 33 for snow-ice, mainly in the northern part of the country and in the Alps, and 21 for wind, from Loire-Atlantique to the Gironde then on a line going to Savoie.
“In Ile-de-France, we expect 1 to 5 cm, locally 5 to 10 cm in the south of the region,” continues Météo-France, which adds that snowfall “is also expected at low altitude in the Alps.” of the South”.
Powerful winds on the heights of the Alps
Further south, the wind will blow strongly with “gusts generally between 100 and 120 km/h on the coast of the departments placed on orange vigilance”, even “130 to 140 km/h possible in the south of Brittany and occasionally on the exposed islands and capes.
Inland, gusts should be around 100 km/h and up to “110 to 130 km/h on the Massif Central and more than 150 km/h on the highest points of the Alps”.
In places, temperatures should be close to those of January. Strong winds could also cause avalanches in the Alps. “Extreme vigilance is required for the practice of all mountain activities and mainly ski or snowshoe hikes” and Haute-Savoie “has an avalanche risk of 4 out of 5 on the Mont-Blanc massif”, a indicated the prefecture.
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