The new year brings cold weather in its wake and, perhaps, a few snowflakes. Météo-France placed around forty departments on yellow alert for snow and ice on Friday, compared to only around twenty this Thursday. Virtually the entire north-eastern half of France is affected.
The weather monitoring organization is concerned about the formation of “icy patches during the night from Thursday to Friday”. You will therefore need to be careful on the roads, especially in the morning. “Except on the Atlantic coast, the south-west and the Mediterranean rim, morning frosts are widespread, between 0 and -4 degrees in the North-East, locally -5/-7 on the Jura plateaus”, specifies Météo -France.
Rare flakes
Elsewhere, a few flakes could appear at the tips of their branches, but only residually. Indeed, “from Center-Val-de-Loire and Auvergne Rhône-Alpes to the Grand-Est, the morning is gray and cold, with a little snow from 400/500 m on the Massif Central and the Alps of north, freezing fogs in the northeast and a risk of ice patches due to refreezing of wet soils on the plains or snow-covered ones on the heights,” notes the meteorological organization. Elsewhere, dry weather is more likely.
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