Europe 1 10:25 a.m., April 01, 2022

Unusual for spring, this snowy episode concerns 22 departments: Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Somme, Seine-Maritime, Eure, Calvados, Orne, Allier, Creuse, Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, Haute-Vienne, Corrèze, Cantal, Haute-Loire, Ain, Isère, Ariège, Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées and Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

The snowy episode continues on Friday.

Météo France now specifies that 22 departments are on snow-ice orange vigilance.

These are Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Somme, Seine-Maritime, Eure, Calvados, Orne, Allier, Creuse, Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, Haute-Vienne, Corrèze, Cantal, Haute-Loire, Ain, Isère, Ariège, Haute-Garonne, Hautes- Pyrenees and Pyrenees-Atlantiques.

22 dpts in #vigilanceOrange



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— VigiMeteoFrance (@VigiMeteoFrance) April 1, 2022