Sixteen departments on orange snow and ice vigilance

Météo-France has placed 16 departments in the north-east of France on orange snow-ice alert due to“a winter episode requiring special attention” which is scheduled to begin Saturday evening. The sixteen departments will go into orange vigilance from Saturday evening, including two, Seine-Maritime and Oise, after 8 p.m., indicates the latest meteorologists' bulletin published at 6 a.m. “The highest risk period extends from Saturday 8 p.m. to Sunday 3 a.m.alerts La Chaîne Météo*.

“A disturbance associated with a lot of mild air will sweep across the entire country in a southwest/northeast direction” Saturday and during the night from Saturday to Sunday, Météo-France predicts. “This disturbance will encounter a mass of cold air, causing snowfall and especially freezing rain for a few hours, while the mild air definitively gains control”further specifies the meteorological site.

The departments concerned by vigilance are Aisne, Ardennes, Marne, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Nord, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Seine-Maritime, Somme, Vosges and the Territoire de Belfort. Météo-France calls for a “special vigilance” because the “Ice, even in small quantities, can be particularly annoying for road traffic”.

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