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The snow has stopped over a large part of France. But risks of refreezing of the roads could affect traffic in a large northern half of France this Friday morning, at the end of a mild but increasingly rare snowfall in the plains. In the northern two thirds of France, frosts will be widespread, sometimes severe during the night and in the morning, with temperatures often between -2 and -5 degrees, sometimes lower than -6/-8 in snowy areas. You will need to be very attentive to the phenomenon of refreezing of wet or snowy surfaces. Two departments – Calvados and Orne – are on orange alert due to the risk of flooding. The cold will continue on Saturday, and we will have to wait until Sunday for the mild spell.
It is in a world shaken by conflicts and the terrorist threat that Emmanuel Macron will address the French armies. The President of the Republic is going to Cherbourg (in the Manche) on Friday to present his wishes against a backdrop of war in Ukraine and the war economy, conflict in the Middle East but also ahead of the Paris Olympic Games. During his speech scheduled for 3:15 p.m. on the naval base, according to the Elysée, the head of state “will reaffirm the principles which guide France’s support for Ukraine”, where he plans to go in February for the second times since the Russian invasion began in February 2022.
They have joined a very exclusive club. A SpaceX rocket took off Thursday for the International Space Station to take four passengers, including a Swede, an Italian and the first Turk to go into space, as part of the third private mission of its kind. The launch took place as planned at 4:49 p.m. (10:49 p.m. Paris time) from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, with arrival scheduled for Saturday. The members of this crew, sponsored by their national agency, will spend two weeks on the ISS and carry out scientific missions. Before them, only 273 astronauts had stayed aboard the space station, including 163 Americans, 57 Russians, 11 Japanese and 4 French.