MeteoLux has changed its yellow alert to orange for the whole country. “Freezing precipitation across the entire territory” is expected, indicates a press release published on Saturday. The alert starts from midnight this Saturday evening and will remain valid for the entire night from Saturday to Sunday, until 7 a.m. Snowfall of one to four centimeters is possible, followed by a risk of freezing rain.
The Weather Risk Assessment Unit (CERI) also met on Saturday afternoon, “in order to make an assessment of the meteorological situation”, confirmed Saturday, around 5:30 p.m., the National Protection Commission, indicating that the The ice warning could impact the entire country.
“From midnight, a warm front, coming from the southwest, will cross the Grand Duchy, initially accompanied by snowfall. This precipitation will turn into freezing rain from 3 a.m. Up to 6 liters/m2 can then fall in the form of freezing rain. With the rise in temperatures at the start of the morning around 7 a.m., it will turn into rain,” it is detailed.
The authorities warn citizens to be vigilant when traveling, to facilitate the passage of snow removal equipment on roads and highways, by parking their vehicles outside of traffic lanes and to protect themselves from falls.
In the Grand Est too, on the French side
Saturday afternoon, Météo-France 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, on this last weekend of school holidays.
Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Vosges were already placed on orange alert. 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 “it can be more persistent in the border departments of the Grand Est, possibly giving up to five centimeters to the ground”.
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