wind and snow anticipated this Thursday, 54 departments on orange vigilance | EUROtoday

The meteorological institute thus positioned, in its 6 a.m. bulletin, 54 departments on orange vigilance. In element, 33 are monitored for “snow-ice”. The territories involved are primarily concentrated within the northern half of France, additionally together with Hautes-Alpes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

“We often expect 5 to 10 cm in the plains, locally up to 20 cm from the first heights between Normandy, Center, Burgundy and southern Alsace. These snowfalls will be accompanied by a fairly strong easterly wind over Lower Normandy, causing snowdrifts to form in places, particularly towards Perche,” specifies Météo-France. “In Île-de-France, we count on 1 to five cm generally, and 5 to 10 cm within the south of the area. »

In these circumstances, site visitors difficulties could seem. It is advisable to seek out out about site visitors forecasts and postpone any non-essential journeys if doable.

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Twenty-one departments are additionally topic to vigilance for “wind” from Loire-Atlantique to Savoie, to which have to be added Corsica. No division is on alert for each causes.

Further south, the wind will blow strongly with “gusts generally between 100 and 120 km/h on the coast of the departments placed on orange vigilance”, and even “130 to 140 km/h in the south of Brittany and occasionally on the exposed islands and capes. Inland, gusts should be around 100 km/h and up to “110 to 130 km/h on the Massif Central and more than 150 km/h on the highest points of the Alps”.