2024-01-18 18:48:17
School transport will be suspended once more in Hauts-de-France on Friday January 19, reports France Bleu Picardie. The region made this decision due to the risk of snow and ice. No school buses have been circulating in the region since Wednesday morning due to bad weather. In Normandy, school transport will also be interrupted on Friday in the departments of Eure and Seine-Maritime. Follow our live stream.
Nine departments on orange alert, including two for “floods”. After the snow, beware of rising water levels. Calvados and Orne were placed on orange “flood” alert on Thursday at midday, just a few hours following the lifting of the “snow-ice” alert in these territories. Seven departments will go into orange “snow-ice” alert at the end of the followingnoon: Cantal, Isère, Loire, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme , Savoie and Haute-Savoie. The alert was lifted for the northern regions of France, but public transport was severely disrupted in the morning in many departments, starting with those of Ile-de-France.
Snow expected in Auvergne-Rhône Alpes. Cantal, Isère, Loire, Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dôme went into orange vigilance from 4 p.m. Savoie and Haute-Savoie have been on alert since 6 p.m. Precipitation will decrease “quickly in the evening of Thursday on the Massif Central side, a little later on the Alps side where it may snow lightly until the end of next night”according to Météo-France. “Tomorrow morning, temperatures are negative everywhere and favor the refreezing of wet surfaces.”
Caution remains in order in the north of the country. “From the evening of Thursday and until the morning of Friday, frosts are expected in Normandy, Hauts-de-France, Ile-de-France and the North-East regions, and might cause phenomena of refreezing of wet and/or partially snow-covered roads”warned Météo-France in son bulletin midday. From 1 to 5 centimeters of snow were recorded in most of these territories, with peaks in places of 10 cm in Normandy and 15 cm in Hauts-de-France, where the episode was the most intense, according to Meteo France.
The situation is improving in Ile-de-France. In “due to weather conditions, the entire bus network is disrupted”announced the RATP, Thursday morning, speaking to franceinfo “one in three buses” in circulation. At 1 p.m., the vast majority of buses might run once more. On the other hand, on the RER and Transilien network, traffic remains disrupted this Thursday followingnoon.
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