Snow in the plain this Monday in the region
And rainy-snow episode takes place this Sunday, February 26 in the evening in the PACA region. It reaches the Rhone Valley around midnight in the night from Sunday to Monday. The first flakes of snow fall between midnight and 3 a.m. Beaucaire, Bagnols-sur-Ceze et Villeneuve-les-Avignon.
THE snowfall earn towards Uzes, Nimes et Ales between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. The snow falls at all altitudes a priori, to the plain. The disruption extends to the entire department of Gardincluding on the littoral and the Camargue. The rain-snow limit most likely lowers to the seaside.
Heavy snow near Vidourle
At the end of the night and the beginning of the morning of this Monday, February 27, 2023 (between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m.), the disturbance reaches the West of Gard and the East of Hérault. It’s snowing at SommieresTo QuissacTo GangesTo Montpellier and to Lunel ! Snow is falling particularly heavily near the Vidourle a you Pic Saint-Loup. La Vaunage is also under the snow.
During the morning, the Return from the East pushes a little towards the West, on the side of the basin of Brassvalleys of l’Orb and Hérault and Biterrois. Precipitation loses a priori in intensity in these areas. However, snowflakes are quite possible! Maybe even at Sete et Beziersit cannot be excluded.
2 to 5 cm in the plain, sometimes 5 to 10 cm
Snow accumulations reach 2 to 5 cm generally in the plains of Gard and the east of Herault. Locally, 5 to 10 cm are possible in the Cévennes foothills, around the Pic Saint-Loup and the Vidourle basin. A dusting or a few centimeters of snow are likely to MontpellierTo Nimes et Lunel. The seaside can also whiten.
In Cevennes, the snow is also present. In quantities similar to the plains finally, with around the 5 to 10cm on the side of Génolhacof Mont Aigoual and the southern slopes of Mont-Lozere. It is also snowing Aubrac and the Margeride, as well as in the Larzac.
New chance of snow on Tuesday
After a probable lull on Monday evening, further snowfall at low altitude is possible on Tuesday February 28, 2023 in Languedoc–Roussillon. Reliability is still limited for now. We will come back to this in our upcoming weather reports.
In the meantime, note that mistral and tramontane will blow violently this Sunday throughout the region. We follow the evolution of the weather report in real time on InfOccitanie.
Weather: mistral and tramontane storm this Sunday, up to 120 km / h
