Be careful of slipping. While freezing rain and snowfall are expected over a large northern third of France from Tuesday evening, the movement of heavy goods vehicles will be gradually banned from west to east as the bad weather moves. , announced the Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu.
“We will start at 8 p.m. with Normandy, Eure-et-Loir and Loiret” and this ban “will be extended to 10 p.m. to the Ile-de-France region and the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region”, then in Hauts-de-France and Alsace from midnight, he declared during a press point at the ministry.
A third of northern France will be affected by snow and ice from the night of Tuesday to Wednesday and 38 departments will switch to orange vigilance on Wednesday, an episode of cold made rarer by climate change. As of this Tuesday evening, 14 departments going from Haut-Rhin to La Manche are on orange snow-ice alert, according to Météo-France. Their number will increase sharply from midnight to reach 38 departments on orange rain-flood and snow-ice alert.