Traffic is complicated in the Alps and Burgundy-Franche-Comté due to heavy snowfall on Friday, authorities said.

Several departments have also been placed on orange vigilance by Météo France for the risk of avalanches and snow-ice. 

In Saône-et-Loire, the prefecture has activated the departmental operational center and temporarily prohibits the movement of heavy goods vehicles in the Dijon-Lyon direction on the A39.

Elsewhere in the region, traffic was partially cut off overnight from Thursday to Friday before being reestablished early in the morning on the A38 in the Pouilly / Dijon direction.

Traffic was also tricky over a good part of the Côte-d'Or, Dijon having woken up under a nice blanket of snow.

"Particularly difficult traffic conditions" in Savoie

The difficulties also concerned the Rhône-Alpes where four departments are placed in orange vigilance: Savoie, Haute-Savoie (snow, ice and avalanches) and Isère (avalanches) A ​​fire also broke out in the morning in the Fréjus tunnel ( Savoie) and 30 people had to be evacuated, 4 of whom were inconvenienced by smoke. Once the fire was under control, traffic could be reestablished in both directions in the middle of the day after being interrupted for several hours, said the prefecture. In Haute-Savoie, traffic restrictions have been put in place for heavy goods vehicles in transit to Italy. Ditto in Isère where it was banned in the morning on several axes.

In the upscale resort of Megève, the town hall called on the inhabitants of about twenty homes in an area exposed to avalanches to evacuate their homes and the seasonal workers who lived there were relocated elsewhere, she said.

The prefecture of Savoie has also warned motorists accessing ski resorts, citing "particularly difficult traffic conditions".

It is thus expected “50 cm of snow at least” above 1,200 m of altitude in the afternoon of Friday and part of the night.

Also in Savoy, bus traffic was interrupted in the morning in the Chambéry agglomeration but had resumed at the beginning of the afternoon.

Heavyweights persona non grata

In these three Alpine departments, a thousand homes were deprived of electricity on Friday morning, especially around the Val d'Arly and Saint-Jean-d'Arves, said the managing company Enedis.

Some 150 officers have been deployed.

In the Ain, placed in yellow ice-snow vigilance, the main measure concerns the preventive ban on heavy goods vehicles taking the A40 to Haute-Savoie, which caused traffic jams at the motorway junction of Pont-d'Ain.

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The departments of Doubs, Haute-Saône, Jura and Territoire de Belfort, for their part, were placed on snow and ice yellow vigilance and traffic was difficult on several axes, including the A36 motorway.

The circulation of heavy goods vehicles on the RN57, the main traffic axis towards Switzerland, the RN5 and the D1005, has been prohibited.

Elsewhere in France, Météo-France has placed the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the Landes on red alert for the risk of flooding.

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