The phenomenon was announced but its intensity surprised more than one. Saturday January 4 in the evening, Côte-d’Or was placed on orange snow and ice alert, mainly due to a risk of freezing rain, while the thermometer did not exceed the 0 degree mark during the day.
Afternoon: pre-salting operations, but…
In the afternoon, pre-salting operations had been carried out almost everywhere. However, it was a supercooled rain phenomenon that appeared last night. As we explain to you in this article, it is rain which passes through a slice of air at negative temperatures but remains liquid instead of transforming into snow: it freezes instantly on contact with the ground, preventing any solution. preventive.
“Impossible” circulation
During the evening, while trams and buses remained stopped for several hours in Dijon, traffic conditions quickly deteriorated, causing numerous accidents. The portion of the A38 (La Côte-d’Orienne) between Pouilly-en-Auxois and Sombernon was, for example, closed and could only reopen around 10:40 p.m., with the Department’s services citing “traffic impossible “. But there were also accidents on the A31 and the A6.
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One dead on the A6, dozens injured
The A6, precisely. Around 6:15 p.m., an accident occurred involving three vehicles near Merceuil, in the Beaune sector. Six victims were counted. Among them, a 20-year-old man, alone in his vehicle, died. In another car, a 26-year-old woman, a 36-year-old man and a 6-year-old child were injured. Finally, in the third vehicle, a 36-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman were injured. The five injured were evacuated to the Dijon University Hospital. This accident caused the closure of the A6 for almost three hours.
At 9:30 p.m., the Côte-d’Or firefighters established a report of 60 victims: one deceased, two people seriously injured, 33 people slightly injured, and 24 people involved. For its part, the Côte-d’Or prefecture recorded 51 material accidents and 16 bodily accidents, as well as 40 interventions by emergency services.
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A return to normal overnight
We had to wait until late at night for a gradual return to normal. Shortly before midnight, the weather episode ended almost everywhere in favor of mild weather.
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Radical change this Sunday
While temperatures remained negative all day Saturday, the weather will be very different this Sunday. At 7 a.m., it was already 6.5 degrees in Dijon, 11.2 degrees in Châtillon-sur-Seine, 7.4 degrees in Pouilly-en-Auxois and 12 degrees in Montbard. Traffic conditions were normal at the start of the day on most of the department’s roads, but residual ice could not be ruled out locally.
On the sky side, we will be treated to grayness and rain. Also note the presence of a strong wind. Moreover, the Côte-d’Or will be on yellow alert for the wind Monday January 6 from midnight and until the following night.
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