Europe 1 with AFP 5:19 pm, December 04, 2021, modified at 5:21 pm, December 04, 2021
The departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées have been placed on orange alert 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.
The departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées have been placed on orange alert 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 ".
Until Monday morning
"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.