This Thursday morning, snow and ice can make driving conditions difficult, across the entire secondary high-altitude network as well as on the plains. In the Loire, Pilat, the Madeleine mountains, the Roannais plain, the Forez mountains and the Forez plain are concerned.
In Haute-Loire, it is especially in the north of the department that traffic conditions are delicate. In these two departments, salting operations are underway.
Lots of wind expected
The weather conditions will change during the day. A rain-snow disturbance accompanied by strong gusts of wind will cross the region this afternoon and until the middle of the following night.
Several weather alerts are in progress in the Loire and Haute-Loire. A yellow snow and ice alert for the two departments and an orange alert for violent winds for the Loire.
Gusts of 90 to 100/110 km/h are expected locally. On the relief, we can record 110 to 130 km/h on the relief of the Massif Central which can extend locally to Cantal and Haute-Loire, and more than 150 km/h on the highest points of the Alps. The wind should stop quite suddenly in the middle of the night from Thursday to Friday.
