The departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées have been placed on orange vigilance for avalanche risks from Sunday morning, Météo-France reported on Saturday.
"The snow cover is important in the west of the Pyrenees, including at low altitude," she wrote in a bulletin.
“On the massifs of the Basque Country, Aspe-Ossau and Haute-Bigorre”, she continues, “the risk of spontaneous avalanche departures becomes significant from Sunday morning at 6 am due to sustained snowfall. planned throughout the day ”.
"Very large avalanches could occur" and "threaten mountain infrastructure and sometimes medium altitude roads", especially "from mid-day Sunday and at least until Monday morning" at 7 am, according to Meteo France.
"The avalanche activity expected on this episode is observed on average once every five years," she further notes.
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