here are the 15 departments placed on alert this Tuesday

The cold has set in in France and the negative temperatures are forcing the French to put on their warmest clothes to get around. After a mild end to 2024, the thermometer continues to fall and, this Monday, several departments were placed in yellow alert for risks of snow and ice. There are even more of them on Tuesday January 21, namely 15and even 23 in total vigilance, while the two departments of Corsica were recently hit by a depression called Gabri, and associated with stormy rains mainly in the South and East.

In detail, we must be armed in the departments ofAisneof Calvadosof the Côte-d’Orof theYourof theEure-et-Loirof Loiretof the Nièvrein theOrne or the Saône-et-Loirethe Seine-Maritimethe Seine-et-MarneTHE Yvelinesthe Sommel’Essonne and the Val d'Oisein Ile-de-France, in alphabetical order and not in terms of impact. The other vigilances decreed by forecasters are associated with flood risks in five departments, namely theDawnthe Charente-Maritimethe Marnel’Oise and the Somme. As for the latter, these are the avalanches which are feared (Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse).

Floods and avalanches forecast

Météo France draws up a general state of the sky in France for Tuesday and specifies that a “disturbance will begin to approach the Atlantic coast in the afternoon”while the mist is very low in the morning. Also, it is stipulated that “the sun may temporarily return to the North and East of the country”but also that the wind could blow stronger and stronger during the day, reaching 80 km/h at peak. As for the temperatures, they are still cold today, with minimums at -4 degrees and maximums at a height of 15 degrees.

In detail, by region it is in Normandy and in Centre-Val-de-Loire and up to the Grand-Est that it will be the coldest with temperatures between -4 and 0 degrees, we oscillate between – 3 and 2 degrees over the rest of the northern half and in the Massif Central, then from 0 to 5 degrees going down towards the South-West, and around 3 to 7 degrees around the Mediterranean. As is often the case, the Côte d'Azur and Languedoc are favored. As for the maximums, they are up compared to yesterday, being able to stagnate between 4 and 9 degrees in the northern half of the country as well as in Rhône-Alpes, between 8 and 12 degrees in the southern half, and even being able to reach 15 degrees at the foot of the Pyrenees and on the Mediterranean coast.

Relative mildness for the rest of the week

What to expect for the rest of the week. After the “cold” and the “gray sky”specialists announce the return of mild weather from Wednesday. “While the mild air from the previous day's front will have invaded almost the entire country, limiting frosts on the plains (more frequent, however, in the North-East), a new active disturbance will enter from the West and slide to the North, with a sensitive wind oriented to the south almost everywhere, accentuating the gentleness”specifies Météo France in its latest bulletin. We can expect a few showers in the South-East and snow on the heights. On Thursday, the North-East quarter will be subject to rain and coolness, while elsewhere the weather will be “generally dry, fairly cloudy, and calmer”. Friday, you should expect wind and rain in the Northto sun in the South.

Finally, regarding the coming weekend, Météo France predicts that the rain could play spoilsport in several parts of the country, including the South.

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