Tarn, Aveyron, Aude and Hérault have been placed on orange “snow-ice” vigilance, according to the vigilance bulletin from Météo-France published Wednesday January 10. They join Cantal and Lozère, bringing the number of departments affected by this alert to six.“D“Precipitation is gradually becoming organized from the Mediterranean, in the form of snow down to low altitude this evening and next night.”specifies the institute. Pas-de-Calais is also still on orange alert for “floods”. Follow our live stream.
Tuesday was less cold than expected, Météo-France announced.. On Tuesday, the national thermal indicator was 0.2°C, making January 9 the coldest day observed since December 17, 2022 (0°C ITN). However, the mercury on Tuesday showed maximum temperatures of 8 to 10°C below seasonal norms (period 1991-2020).
A peak in electricity consumption expected on Wednesday. This is what was announced RTE, the electricity transmission network manager. “Everything is going to be fine,” the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, promised on Monday. “We have a lot of electricity that we produce, and we have so much that we export.”
School transport suspended in Eure-et-Loir. The prefecture suspended school transport throughout the department on Wednesday, and also limited the movement of heavy goods vehicles: “vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tonnes are not authorized to carry out overtaking maneuvers, and their maximum authorized speed has been lowered by 20km/h” on national roads.