The chilly is getting worse in France, with temperatures feeling as much as -10°C | EUROtoday

Published on : 01/09/2024 – 11:31

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Motorists immobilized in a single day by snow close to Paris and 6 departments positioned on orange alert: the chilly worsened Tuesday January 2 within the nation. Some “400 vehicles” had been nonetheless blocked Tuesday morning on the roads of Île-de-France resulting from unhealthy climate which notably disrupted site visitors on a part of the A13 motorway, closed to site visitors, indicated the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune on RMC.

If the state of affairs is “resolving”, he indicated earlier than 8 a.m., as much as “1,000 vehicles”, heavy items automobiles and particular person automobiles, had been blocked “at the start of the night”, then “800” early morning.

The difficulties significantly concern the A13 motorway, which should stay closed to site visitors all morning for “around ten kilometers” between Orgeval and Rocquencourt, stated Clément Beaune.

Météo-France introduced in its new climate forecast on Tuesday that Manche was added to Yvelines, Essonne, Calvados, Orne and Eure, departments positioned on orange snow/ice alert since Tuesday morning.

Forty-eight departments are on yellow “severe cold” vigilance (second degree out of 4) and Nord and Pas-de-Calais stay on orange “flood” vigilance.

Between -5°C and -10°C felt

During the day, temperatures felt between -5°C and -10°C ought to be noticed over a big northeastern third, combining with the chance of flooding within the Nord and Pas-de-Calais.

At 5:30 a.m. native time, 5 centimeters of snow had been noticed in Caen-Carpiquet, 3 cm in Toussus-le-Noble and Évreux, 2 cm in Paris-Montsouris and Trappes, Météo-France indicated.

“In the north of the country, the North-East wind accentuates the impression of cold which is spreading. Night temperatures are freezing”, provides Météo-France.

It shall be -7°C to -4°C levels in Hauts-de-France, Grand Est, Brittany, Auvergne and Limousin, and -5°C to -2°C levels in the remainder of the territory, anticipates the meteorological service.

School transport suspended

In Blendecques (Pas-de-Calais), one of many municipalities severely affected by flooding final week, frost has frozen the mud within the streets. In Arques, there isn’t any extra water on the Town Hall sq. however some residents discovered themselves with out heating, whereas Météo-France forecasts -6°C on Wednesday.

In Orne and Calvados, faculty transport was banned for the day.

On Monday, the Minister for Housing Patrice Vergriete introduced the discharge of 120 million euros for emergency lodging, and specified that the “severe cold” plan had been launched “by all the prefectures” involved, in hyperlink with Météo France.

Although temperatures dropped shortly after a very gentle interval, the present state of affairs doesn’t meet the standards of a “cold wave”, outlined in France as an enduring and widespread episode of chilly (not less than three days) of which not less than a day when the common temperature (nationwide thermal indicator) drops beneath -2°C.

Indeed, temperatures will rise slowly from Wednesday however the minimums will stay low, with nearly widespread and domestically extreme frosts, warns Météo France.

With AFP