Much of the country is shivering for the first weekend of the year.
From Orne to Bas-Rhin, via Paris, thirty departments are on orange alert for snow and ice.
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Snow, ice: France facing a new cold wave
Alsace is under a carpet of frost this morning, as we discover in the 1 p.m. report above. Roads, plains or puddles, frozen by the cold. Well wrapped up, some prefer to see the positive. “It’s very pleasant when there is blue sky, even if it’s cold,” comments a walker on TF1.
In Strasbourg, it was -4°C at market time. A customer found the solution: stack layers of clothing. “I move and dress like an onion, like that, little by little, I can eliminate and adapt”she says. His market gardener has also planned everything to counter the negative temperatures. “We have cover for the vegetables over there, we have heating for us here, if we are well equipped, it’s fine”he smiles.
Necessary cold for crops
The cold weather of winter, which forces humans to adapt, is rather good news for our crops. “The cold period will help neutralize insects and parasites that are harmful to the plant”explains a farmer. This morning, all of France was cold: -4° in Mende, -5° in Alençon or Lyon, -7° in Auxerre, and up to minus 9 in Colmar or Chaumont.
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Enough to surprise some motorists. On the A89 motorway, in Corrèze, freezing rain caused an accident: a heavy goods vehicle left the road without causing any injuries. “This disturbance will circulate over the entire northern half and in the northeast, between the afternoon and next night,” describes Louis Bodin, from the TF1 meteorology department, “so when arriving on frozen ground, it will cause either ice or some snowfall”. This is why Météo France has placed thirty departments in the north and east of France on orange vigilance.
