Several accidents have been recorded this morning due to the snow, including on the A8 as well as in Pas-de-Calais. More information is expected later in the deay.<\/p>\n
Alerts for icy roads and black ice in place<\/p>\n
Heightened tier-three orange alerts for icy roads and black ice (neige-verglas) are in place in 38 departments, ranging from the German border to as far south as Corr\u00e8ze and Charente.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Several train lines are disrupted in the centre and west, including the Bordeaux-La Rochelle line, Orl\u00e9ans-Nantes and Tours-Angers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Routes out of Paris to the west, including to Orl\u00e9ans and Le Mans, as well east as to Mulhouse and Strasbourg are facing delays this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No TGV high-speed trains are impacted, although many are limited to lower speeds than usual, which may result in delays to journeys.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Flights to and from Paris\u2019 two main airports are disrupted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The French Civil Aviation Authority is asking those set to travel today to contact their airline for updates, with up to 40% of flights from Paris Charles de Gaulle and 25% from Paris Orly set to be cancelled this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Routes to and from Nantes Airport are also disrupted until around midday.<\/p>\n
Snow to continue throughout day\u00a0<\/p>\n
Up to 15cm of snow fell in the Ardennes overnight, as snowfall that started in the north gradually moved across the south.<\/p>\n
However, in some places such as Dunkerque, snowfall only began around 06:00. Some homes in the area were left without heating last night due to a technical issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Snow is set to fall until around midday in the north and west, before it slowly moves east to cover central and eastern areas, and will fall until around 18:00. <\/p>\n
The graphic below shows expected snowfall today, although in some rural locations snowfall may be slightly higher – for example, up to 10cm of snow is expected in Champagne this afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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By the evening, snowfall will be limited to a small flurry overnight near the German border, but from Thursday onwards is set to end.<\/p>\n
Freezing cold temperatures tonight will be the end of the cold period, as temperatures are set to rise tomorrow as the wind patterns currently above France are pushed out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
M\u00e9t\u00e9o France has been criticised by Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot for underestimating the level of snowfall at the start of this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The forecaster responded by saying it had been warning of significant snowfall since Saturday and that it is \u201ccomplex\u201d to predict this type of phenomenon accurately.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up to 15cm of snow is expected in parts of the north Drivers across several regions are impacted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-679633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115853167416871294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}