Floréal Hernandez, editor-in-chief of 20 Minutes, improvised a snowball fight on the way to work.
At 8:45 a.m., one in three buses was in circulation, compared to one in four buses around 8 a.m.
On the roads, “driving conditions on the network can be locally difficult”, warned the Ile-de-France roads department (Dirif) this morning, urging motorists to “defer” their “trips”. Several sections of national roads and motorways are closed, such as on the A1, the A115, the N14, the N184 or the N104.
The Ile-de-France bus and train network was severely disrupted this morning by the snow with only one bus in four in circulation and train lines interrupted, indicated the RATP and the SNCF.
“The service of the interrupted bus lines will resume as the roads clear the lanes blocked by snow,” an RATP spokesperson told AFP, without being able to give a certain time of resumption. “It will depend on the roads. »
Several important sections of the RER C, operated by the SNCF, are also interrupted, just like on the Transilien lines N and U. No disruptions, however, on the side of the metro and the RER lines A and B, indicated the RATP which operates these lines jointly with SNCF.
“We don’t even have any, since our snow removal machines are patrolling,” assures Nicolas Guillaume, spokesperson for Vinci Autoroutes, when asked about BFMTV.
Since the start of snowfall, there have been 2 to 5 cm in Normandy with peaks of 10 cm locally, 5 to 10 cm in the north of the country with peaks of 15 cm locally, and 1 to 4 cm in the Paris region.
In the morning, snowfall will shift towards the Center, Burgundy and Grand-Est. Then, in the afternoon, towards Limousin, Auvergne and Franche-Comté, with a possible fleeting passage to Poitou and Lyonnais.
In the Alps, the limit between rain and snow is around 1,500 to 1,700 m.
The Parisian transport network announced on its website that “due to weather conditions, no bus lines are currently running on the network”.
The snowfall, which continued during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, will gradually end on Thursday morning in the north of France and shift towards the east and the center, according to Météo-France.
The snowfall will end in the morning from Hauts-de-France to Normandy via the Paris region. However, their consequences could continue during the day with an early refreezing of the roads in the evening, warns Météo-France.
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While a large part of France has been facing a cold spell since Tuesday evening, some people continue to live in Bermuda shorts, ensuring they will not suffer from the drastic drop in temperatures. Our journalist Camille Allain went to meet these people for whom a low mercury in the thermometers really does not rhyme with down jacket: