Météo France places part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region on orange alert for a “notable snowy” episode, from the night of Saturday to Sunday March 3.
The snow is coming back. Météo France has placed the Loire and Haute-Loire on orange alert, for a significant snowy episode, which will begin during the night of Saturday to Sunday March 3. The other departments of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes are currently placed on yellow alert. In the Rhône and around Lyon, this bad weather could disrupt road traffic, which is busy this weekend returning from vacation.
More or less severe bad weather is expected on the plains, and more pronounced snow on the hills. : “snowfall will be significant at altitude, on most mountain ranges”, warns Météo France in its bulletin. At low altitude, an extension of orange vigilance “Snow/ice” covering Sunday is possible for certain departments of Rhône-Alpes.
This episode is linked to a disturbance which affects the north-west of France this Saturday morning. It will slowly shift eastward over the weekend with “a spectacular lowering of the rain/snow limit” Sunday according to the weather forecasting organization. In the Loire and Haute-Loire, 20 to 40 centimeters of snow could fall. Snowfall should be more scattered in the Rhône and other departments of the region.
These bad weather could contribute to disrupting road traffic, in the middle of a winter cross-country weekend. smart one launched an appeal for caution on the roads of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes for the holiday weekend, citing expected precipitation “at very low altitude on the relief, and probably up to the plain from Burgundy to the Rhône valley”.
smart one “strongly recommends that users avoid driving on Sundays and at night which precedes in the regions affected by these bad weather”. The regional prefecture also recommended to affected motorists “to move forward their journey to Saturday March 2, and to exercise the greatest caution.
For this weekend of winter holiday departures and returns, Saturday is classified red in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, but Sunday “risque to also be very disrupted due to this severe bad weather.
2024-03-02 11:07:51
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