2024-01-09 07:30:28
The day of Tuesday January 9 should be the coldest of the week in France, with temperatures felt between − 5 ° C and − 10 ° C over a vast northeastern third.
“The winter offensive continues”warns Météo-France. “In the north of the country, the North-East wind accentuates the feeling of spreading cold. Nighttime temperatures are freezing. »
It will be − 7 °C to − 4 °C in Hauts-de-France, Grand Est, Brittany, Auvergne and Limousin, and − 5 °C to − 2 °C in the rest of the territory. , anticipates the meteorological service. Tuesday morning, only the Côte d’Azur and Corsica will record positive temperatures, with minimums between 3°C and 7°C and maximums of 8°C to 14°C.
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Snow will appear in Drôme, Isère, Ain and Jura, for a few centimeters. The departments of Yvelines, Essonne, Calvados, Orne and Eure were placed on orange snow-ice alert on Tuesday. “A snowy axis extends from the Paris region to Lower Normandy. The amounts of snow that fell were higher than expected. Patches of road ice are also forming” Announcement Météo-France.
In Pas-de-Calais, the mud frozen in frost
Forty-eight departments are on yellow “severe cold” vigilance (second level out of four), while Nord and Pas-de-Calais have been kept on orange vigilance for “floods”. In Blendecques (Pas-de-Calais), one of the municipalities severely affected by flooding last week, frost has frozen the mud in the streets. In Arques there is no more water on the Town Hall square but some residents found themselves without heating, while Météo-France forecasts − 6°C on Wednesday.
On Monday, the Minister for Housing, Patrice Vergriete, announced the release of 120 million euros for emergency accommodation, and specified that the “severe cold” plan had been launched “by all prefectures” concerned, in conjunction with Météo-France.
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In Ile-de-France, the Federation of Solidarity Actors (FAS) had expressed its concern about the sheltering of homeless people, evoking a severe cold plan “undersized compared to needs”.
“While it was freezing, the marauders told us of numerous situations of isolated people or families who had to spend the night on the street due to lack of places to take shelter in sufficient numbersthe FAS was alarmed in a press release. It is imperative to open emergency accommodation places that meet the needs for all people on the streets throughout the Ile-de-France region. »
Not the criteria for a cold snap
Although temperatures dropped quickly after a particularly mild period, the current situation does not meet the criteria for a “cold wave”, defined in France as a lasting and extended episode (at least three days) including at least one day where the average temperature (national thermal indicator) falls below − 2 °C.
Indeed, temperatures will rise slowly from Wednesday but the minimums will remain low, with almost widespread and locally severe frosts, warns Météo-France which also anticipates “a snowy episode” which could concern Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon, and continue on Thursday.
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If the cold level is forecast « banal » in the east of the country, Météo-France notes that “this will not necessarily be the case in the western regions, at least locally”. “From Normandy to Brittany, via Maine, the sequence of a few days without thaw has become rare”underlines the organization, adding: “In Alençon or Laval, if we stay three days below 0°C as could happen, this would be unprecedented since February 2012”.
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