Météo France has placed 10 departments on orange vigilance.

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AFP

Météo France placed ten departments in the north-east on snow-ice orange vigilance on Thursday.

The departments concerned are: the Ardennes, Aisne, Meuse, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Moselle, Nord, Vosges, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Territoire-de-Belfort.

From the North to the Ardennes, to Lorraine, Alsace and the Territoire de Belfort, the cold will return: temperatures will oscillate between 1 and 4 degrees throughout the day, it will begin to snow all the way to the plain at the beginning of the morning and these falls snowfall will continue into the night of Thursday to Friday.

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Rain in the West

The white layer will go from 2 to 5 cm from the Lille region to the north of the Aisne.

In vigilant departments, the planned layer will be 7 to 15 cm larger, locally 20 cm.

In the rest of the Hauts-de-France region, in Haute-Normandie, the Paris region as far as Bourgogne Franche-Comté, it will rain sustainably, with good accumulations especially north of the Seine, and lots of snow. from an altitude of 1000 meters on the relief of the Jura.

Over the entire west of France and Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, the sky will be loaded with light rains, more regular over the north-west in the morning, then from the Center and the Massif Central to New Aquitaine. afternoon.

A few gaps will reappear between Brittany and Vendée after noon.

Sun in the Mediterranean

In the northern Alps, it will continue to snow from 800/1000 meters in general but lower from 500/600 meters in certain valleys of Haute-Savoie where the accumulation of snow will become significant.

On the Channel coast, the wind will shift to the north-west and will strengthen to reach 70 km / h in gusts in the evening.

Except in the west of Corsica where the greyness will be more frequent, the sun will resist on the Mediterranean regions.

However, the wind will blow quite strongly over Languedoc-Roussillon, over all of Provence and the ends of Corsica, between 70 and 90 km / h in gusts, sometimes up to 100 over the relief and the Var coast.

Except in areas exposed to snow, it will be 4 to 8 degrees inland tomorrow morning, 7 to 11 in the afternoon, up to 12 to 15 degrees on the Mediterranean border.

Miscellaneous

Tarn: A hundred people trapped by snow in the Montagne Noire

Planet

Snowfall: 2,000 motorists stranded overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday on the A40 in Ain

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