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As promised for days, snow is there this Thursday, November 21, 2024. Since this morning, the snowflakes have been falling over part of France.

Météo France notes snow on the plains from northern Brittany to the Grand Est, via Normandy. But also “sometimes heavy snow in the Alps”. This Thursday, 54 departments are also placed on orange alert for snow, ice and/or wind.

The return of snow also causes some traffic difficulties. Follow this early winter episode in our regions, live.

3:45 p.m. – End of live

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1 p.m. – Only 56 departments left on orange vigilance

Shortly after 1 p.m., Météo France lowered the number of departments placed on orange vigilance. From 58 this morning, there are now 56 to be under reinforced surveillance for risk of snow-ice and strong winds.

12:35 p.m. – Update on traffic in the south of the Channel

The bad weather on Thursday, November 21 caused several accidents and left a few injured in the south of the Channel. In total, 41 firefighters were mobilized for interventions on the road, reports our local editorial staff La Gazette de la Manche.

As a reminder, the Manche prefecture recommends avoiding taking the road all day.

12:20 p.m. – The magnificent photos of Perche under the snow

For the second time in 2024 (after January 2024) snow appeared in Perche.

In the east of Orne, it fell up to 10 centimeters of snow in place this Thursday, November 21, 2024. And it should not stop all day, according to the weather forecast. In the meantime, our editorial staff The Whys has collected several magnificent photos.

11:33 a.m. – Photos of the snow in Saint-Malo

It can be read by our colleagues at Country Malouinand we never get tired of it.

11:04 a.m. – Accidents in the Channel

Firefighters intervened six times for road accidents this Thursday, November 21, 2024, since the first snowflakes fell on the Channel. Read the Presse de la Manche article here.

10:18 a.m. – A “Christmas decor”, in Flers

The article from our colleagues at Orne Combattantewith some pretty magical photos. However, be careful too, although the streets of the city have been salted, this is not the case everywhere around, and it is very slippery.

10:12 a.m. – New departments placed on orange vigilance

9:49 a.m. – Rennes under the snow

The Breton capital is adorned with a pretty white coat, this Thursday, November 21, 2024. As announced by the meteorologists, contacted by News Rennesthe snow did indeed fall in Rennes from around 7:30 a.m.

Traffic is also disrupted on the main roads in the departments of Ille-et-Vilaine and Côtes-d'Armor. Residents are also asked to sweep the sidewalks to avoid any risk of falling.

9:40 a.m. – Snow and ice in the Vitré region

In the Pays de Vitré, several centimeters of snow cover the roofs and the countryside. Many roads in the area are also covered with ice, reports Le Journal de Vitré.

And remember that in Ille-et-Vilaine, the speed limit is set at 80 km/h, on the entire road network of the department. “The prefecture also calls on the entire population to exercise the greatest caution on the roads and invites people to limit travel as much as possible. »

9:22 a.m. – Turns under the snow

Calvados is also entitled to its white coat of November this morning, reports The Voice the Bocage. In their article, our colleagues report still heavy falls at 9 a.m., causing truck blockages, and therefore difficulties in traveling. Be careful, then!

9:18 a.m. – The situation in the Channel

Our colleagues from La Presse de la Manche have been providing live coverage of snowfall in the department since the beginning of the morning. To view it, click here.

9:13 a.m. – Very delicate conditions in the South Channel

Photos from our colleagues at Gazette de la Manche are impressive. This morning, visibility is largely reduced in the South Channel, and the roads are completely white. Be careful if you have to take these routes.

9:08 a.m. – Ferns under the snow

Weather France announced, it was under a white blanket of snow that the town of Fougères woke up this morning. For the moment, “traffic is moving, even if it is slow in several places”, specify our colleagues at The Republican Chronicle.

9:05 a.m. – In Dinan, it’s chaos on the roads

“On the 4 lanes, the RN176, we drove quite well but at a slower pace, in the fairly heavy downpours, essentially on a single lane, even we have to remain careful,” relates Le Petit Bleu. And to add that at least two accidents have been reported to date, one “in the Dinan/Lamballe direction, a little after the Caulnes/Plancoët road exit. The other, a little later, near Pleslin-Trigavou, in the same direction. Be careful, then!

9 a.m. – Update on the state of the roads in Sarthe this Thursday

At 7 a.m., the departmental council took a first look at the situation on the roads of Sarthe. “Throughout the Department, traffic conditions are good. Traffic is normal, there is no treatment in progress,” report our journalists fromnews Le Mans.

The Prefect, however, issued two decrees this Wednesday, the first banning school transport and the second limiting the speed of heavy goods vehicles.

8:50 a.m. – Salting in progress on certain roads in Côtes-d’Armor

The Côtes-d'Armor Department announces salting operations in progress in various areas, due to snow showers that fell during the night of November 20 to 21, 2024.

“They continue in the sectors of Lannion, Rostrenen, Callac, Loudéac, Collinee, Saint-Brieuc sud, Caulnes and Plouaret”, report our journalists from Independent Mail.

8:45 a.m. – Snow, freezing rain and sleet: what’s the difference?

Did you know? The cold doesn't just bring snow.

Other meteorological phenomena occur when water falls with very low temperatures: this is the freezing rain a you sleet. Definitions and differences in this article.

8:25 a.m. – Difficult traffic conditions this morning in Lannion

This Thursday, the forecast snow was there in the streets of Lannion (Côtes-d’Armor) as in the rest of the territory. The roads are not clear outside the main roads, nor even in the streets of Lannion.

A school bus fell into the ditch of a road near Prat, reports our local editorial staff Le Trégor.

8 a.m. – Due to storm Caetano

This winter episode bringing its share of snow in the mountains and in the plains results from the Caetano storm which crosses France from West to East. This depression “rises over France and moves between the Loire and the Seine,” meteorologist Guillaume Séchet explained yesterday, contacted by actu.fr.

This Caetano depression is “linked to an air mass conflict between cold air which descends from the North Pole over the entire northern part of Europe and milder air from the Canaries, which resists to the south, on the near Atlantic », he further explained to us.

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