The snowy episode seems to be coming to an end. Cantal and Puy-de-Dôme remain on an orange snow ice alert on Sunday, November 23, until 10 a.m., due to “presence of ice on the ground”. According to its latest bulletin, Météo France lifted the orange alert at 6am for the departments of Ile-de-France, Aveyron, Corrèze, Creuse and Haute-Vienne. “Weakly active disturbances that cause snowfall and freezing precipitation continue to move slowly from west to east, but are losing their activity”reports Météo-France. Follow our live stream.
There was four centimeters of snow on the ground in Ile-de-France. Météo-France recorded an average snow cover of one to four centimeters in Ile-de-France, “perhaps less frequent in the west of the region”. The astrologer emphasizes that we should not rule this out “some very rare drizzle and freezing locally”.
7,500 road agents were mobilized this weekend. Police headquarters decided on Saturday to reduce official speeds by 20 km/h throughout Ile-de-France and prohibit overtaking heavy goods vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tons on main roads. Trains and urban networks should not be significantly affected, but delays of around an hour were reported on Saturday evening in Roissy.
The Météo France website experienced difficulties on Saturday evening. “Due to the large number of connections to our service, you are currently visiting the Météo France emergency site, with limited content”we can read at 8 pm, Saturday, on the Météo France website. Concretely, certain content is no longer displayed, in particular afternoon and evening weather for certain departments.
