Météo-France has placed 30 departments on orange snow-ice alert due to a “disturbance” which will begin late Saturday afternoon and particularly affect the north and east of the country, during this last weekend. end of school holidays.
“A disturbance associated with a lot of mild air will sweep across the entire country in a southwest/northeast direction, this Saturday and the night from Saturday to Sunday. In the departments in orange, this disturbance will encounter a cold air mass, causing snowfall and especially freezing rain for a few hours, the time for the mild air to gain definitively”, indicates the meteorologists' bulletin.
Aisne, Ardennes, Marne, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Nord, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Bas-Rhin, Haut- Rhine, Seine-Maritime, Somme, Vosges and the Territoire de Belfort were already placed on orange vigilance.
The Ile-de-France departments of Orne, Eure-et-Loir, Eure, Côte-d'Or, Aube and Haute-Saône were added.
This episode will affect “the south of the area concerned at the end of the afternoon” and will leave “the northern borders at the end of the night from Saturday to Sunday”.
Météo-France predicts snowfall “generally quite brief”, but warns that “they can be more persistent in the border departments of the Grand-Est, possibly giving up to five centimeters to the ground”.
Freezing rain could then last “between one and three hours, which could cause traffic difficulties”.
“Traffic conditions could be delicate in the areas concerned,” also warns Bison Futé, which calls on road users to “use extra caution, as well as to find out about changes in weather and traffic conditions before traveling. leave”.
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