Météo France maintains 31 departments in orange snow-ice vigilance and 43 in yellow vigilance for wind, snow-ice, avalanches, and/or thunderstorms this Friday, November 22, 2024 after the passage of storm Caetano.
Winter storm Caetano hit France this Thursday, November 21, 2024 and has now left France. While a cold snap has set in over most of the country, and the first snows, sometimes in abundance, have fallen particularly in the northern part of the country (Brittany, Normandy, Paris, etc.), Météo France has decided to maintain orange vigilance for snow, ice and/or wind this Friday, November 22, 2024 for 31 departments. And yellow vigilance for 43 departments.
Document – Météo France
According to forecasts from the weather police, “behind, the very clear freeze is now in place, making the roads particularly slippery where the snow fell on Thursday. A few showers of snow or mixed rain and snow circulated this night still near the Channel, on Corsica, the wind has clearly strengthened with stormy gusts.
Snow-ice: 31 departments on orange alert
For the snowy episode, “we recorded snow depths of between 2 and 8 cm and locally 10 or even 15 cm on the first heights, up to 20 cm or more very occasionally”. Thirty-one departments are placed on orange vigilance this Friday which remains to be a complicated day in the northern half of the country. First, because “the snow will turn into ice due to negative temperatures”, announced the Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, to BFM Business, estimating that we should expect ” traffic difficulties” on the main roads.
For its part, Météo France mentions the refreezing of the snow, therefore making the ground very slippery.
- Seine-Maritime
- Calvados
- Some
- Your
- Orne
- Mayenne
- Sarthe
- Eure-et-Loir
- Yvelines
- Val-d'Oise
- Paris
- Essonne
- Seine-et-Marne
- Loir-et-Cher
- Cher
- Loiret
- Nièvre
- Yonne
- Dawn
- Haute-Marne
- Côte-d’Or
- Vosges
- Haute-Saône
- Doubs
- Haut-Rhin
- Territory of Belfort
Wind and snow-ice: 43 in yellow alert
For the wind, in the west of the country, we recorded 111 km/h in Brest, 123 km/h in Lorient, 126 km/h in Quimper for the strongest gusts. In New Aquitaine, we recorded 122 km/h in La Rochelle, 117 km/h in Limoges and 107 km/h in Poitiers. In the Center-East, we recorded 119 km/h in Clermont-Ferrand. In Corsica, 150 km/h on the coast of Balagne and the north of Cap Corse, 100 to 120 km/h by surge in Conca and Porto-Vecchio, 90 to 110 km/h in the Bastia region.
- Channel (wind)
- Calvados (wind)
- Seine-Maritime (wind)
- Doubs (wind)
- Jura (wind and snow-ice)
- Saône-et-Loire (wind and snow-ice)
- Loire (wind and snow-ice)
- Rhône (wind and snow-ice)
- Ain (wind and snow-ice)
- Haute-Savoie (wind and snow-ice)
- Savoie (wind and snow-ice)
- Haute-Loire (wind and snow-ice)
- Isère (wind and snow-ice)
- Hautes-Alpes (wind and snow-ice)
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (wind and snow-ice)
- Alpes-Maritimes (wind and snow-ice)
- Lozere (wind and snow-ice)
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques (wind)
- Landes (wind)
- Finistère (snow-ice)
- Côtes d’Armor (snow-ice)
- Morbihan (snow-ice)
- Ille-et-Vilaine (snow-ice)
- Loire-Atlantique (snow-ice)
- Maine-et-Loire (snow-ice)
- Indre-et-Loire (snow-ice and floods)
- Vendée (snow-ice)
- Deux-Sèvres (floods)
- Indre (snow-ice)
- Hollow (snow-ice)
- Haute-Vienne (snow-ice)
- Dordogne (floods)
- Corrèze (snow-ice)
- Puy-de-Dôme (snow-ice)
- Cantal (snow-ice)
Temperatures falling sharply
“Temperatures are wintery with minimums between – 3 and + 1 degree in the north-west as far as Poitou-Charentes as well as in Rhône-Alpes, widespread frosts between – 5 and 0 degrees from the north-east to the Massif Central From the south of the Garonne to the Mediterranean rim, the minimums range from 2 to 7 degrees. In the afternoon, the Atlantic coast and the Mediterranean rim are the mildest regions with 8 to 7 degrees. 13 degrees. Elsewhere, it is 2 to 7 degrees, but not more than 1 to 4 degrees from the Grand-Est to Bourgogne Franche-Comté.
