Emergency services intervened once during the night from Saturday to Sunday, as part of the ice warning. On the A7 towards Luxembourg between the Grouft and Stafelter tunnel, a driver lost control of his vehicle. He was injured. “We were on alert, the offices were ready to act,” confides the CCGDIS spokesperson. But the ice did not do much damage.”
However, caution remains in order. MeteoLux indicates this Sunday morning that the roads remain slippery due to the formation of ice. On Saturday, MeteoLux changed its yellow alert to orange for the whole country. “Freezing precipitation across the entire territory” is expected, a press release said. The alert started from midnight this Saturday evening and remained valid for the entire night from Saturday to Sunday, until 7 a.m. Snowfall of one to four centimeters was possible, followed by freezing rain.
“From midnight, a warm front, coming from the southwest, will cross the Grand Duchy, initially accompanied by snowfall. This precipitation will turn into freezing rain from 3 a.m. Up to 6 liters/m2 can then fall in the form of freezing rain. With the rise in temperatures at the start of the morning around 7 a.m., it will turn into rain,” it was detailed.
The authorities warn citizens to be vigilant when traveling, to facilitate the passage of snow removal equipment on roads and highways, by parking their vehicles outside of traffic lanes and to protect themselves from falls.
In the Grand Est too, on the French side
Saturday afternoon, Météo-France placed 30 departments on orange snow-ice alert due to a “disturbance” which will begin late Saturday afternoon and particularly affect the north and east of the country, on this last weekend of school holidays.
Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Vosges were already placed on orange alert. This episode will affect “the south of the area concerned at the end of the afternoon” and will leave “the northern borders at the end of the night from Saturday to Sunday”. Météo-France predicts snowfall “generally quite brief”, but warns that “it can be more persistent in the border departments of the Grand Est, possibly giving up to five centimeters to the ground”.
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