The orange snow-ice vigilance was lifted on Friday for Hauts-de-France, the day after a snowy episode in the region which caused at least one death and several dozen minor injuries, but caused rivers to overflow. persisted elsewhere.
Seven departments thus remained on orange flood alert: Oise and Val-d’Oise, Seine-Maritime, Eure and Calvados, as well as Ille-et-Vilaine and Maine-et-Loire, according to the 10:00 a.m. point from Météo-France.
The North, Pas-de-Calais and the Somme had once again switched to orange snow-ice alert on Thursday evening, but returned to yellow on Friday at 10:00 a.m.
Twenty-four additional minor injuries were recorded between late Thursday afternoon and Friday morning in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais, according to the Hauts-de-France prefecture.
Flooded houses in Feuguerolles-Bully, in Calvados, January 9, 2025 / LOU BENOIST / AFP
Due to a refreeze during the night from Thursday to Friday, the Hauts-de-France region had extended as a precaution the total suspension of school transport and intercity bus transport lines in its four departments until Friday 11:00 a.m.
A homeless person was found dead Thursday morning in Valenciennes.
-On the other hand, the link was not formally established between the snowy episode and the death of a man in his fifties on the public highway in Croix, in the Lille metropolis, according to the Northern prefecture.
“The snow remains on the ground in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and the north of the Somme, even if the main roads are clear”according to Météo-France, warning that “sliding phenomena are still possible”.
Temperatures were largely negative at the end of the night in the northern half of Hauts-de-France, with between -2 and -5°C recorded and up to -7.1°C in Fiefs (Pas-de-Calais). , noted Météo-France.
The “almost all” Homes affected by power cuts in the region have been reconnected since late Thursday evening, according to an Enedis spokesperson interviewed by AFP on Friday.
Early Thursday evening, Enedis had recorded another 1,200 homes without power due to snowfall, mainly in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais.
