Météo France has placed a series of departments on orange alert for risks linked to snow and ice.
Seine-Maritime, Somme, Nord and Pas-de-Calais will be affected on Wednesday from 2 p.m.
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SCHOOL TRANSPORT AND BUSES SUSPENDED
Faced with the weather forecast, the Hauts-de-France region has decided to suspend school transport and buses. “The accumulations could reach north of a Rouen – Laon line 5 to 10 cm, locally more than 10 cm, south of this line 3 to 5 cm, locally more than 5 cm”, specified the region on its website, which also indicates that restrictions are being studied for the circulation of heavy goods vehicles.
DEPARTMENTS CONCERNED BY VIGILANCE
Seine-Maritime, Somme, Nord and Pas-de-Calais will be on orange alert on Wednesday from 2 p.m.
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Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the new weather alert issued by Météo-France. The institute has placed four departments on orange alert for snow and ice for the day of Wednesday January 8.
An orange alert was issued by Météo France for Wednesday. The inhabitants of Seine-Maritimeof the Sommeof Nord a you Pas-de-Calais are called upon to exercise vigilance, due to a “unremarkable winter episode for the regions concerned, but notable enough to make traffic conditions difficult.”
“In the middle of the day on Wednesday, the disturbance which hit the country on Tuesday gradually moves northwards. Upon contact with the colder air to the north, the precipitation becomes snowy from Upper Normandy to Hauts-de-France. This precipitation weakens in the middle of the night from Wednesday to Thursday.specifies Météo France.
Snow accumulations of 5 to 10 centimeters are expected in the departments concerned. “The most intense axis of the snow episode this Wednesday is expected from Seine-Maritime to Nord-Pas-de-Calais. However, there is still a minority scenario in which the main snow axis could extend also on the departments going from the east of Calvados to the north of the Ardennes via the west of Val-d’Oise, and less concerns the extreme north of Nord-Pas-de-Calais”specifies Météo-France.
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