For the day of Monday, nine departments were placed in orange vigilance. Gusts of wind and strong waves are expected Monday in the South-West, Corsica and the Var.
Le Monde with AFP
About 18,000 homes were still without electricity, Monday morning December 28, in eastern and central France, due to storm Bella and heavy snowfall recorded overnight.
A previous assessment given by the manager of the electricity network Enedis on Sunday evening reported 34,000 homes without current in the east and center of the country. The electricity of “90% of customers who had been impacted by storm Bella has been restored”, mainly in Normandy, Brittany, Picardy and Nord-Pas-de-Calais, said a spokesperson for Enedis.
“But, during the night, heavy snowfalls and strong winds were also recorded in Auvergne and Limousin, causing negative effects on the network”, he added. Some 1,500 employees are hard at work in the affected areas to restore the electricity network.
Nine departments in orange vigilance
Météo-France announced on Sunday that the disruption linked to Storm Bella would arrive over the western Massif Central with snow above 600 to 700 m, associated with a stormy wind.
For Monday, nine departments were placed in orange vigilance . Snow and ice are expected in Aveyron, Cantal, Corrèze, Lozère and Puy-de-Dôme, while a phenomenon of “waves-submersions” will affect Corse-du-Sud, the Landes, the Pyrenees. -Atlantiques et le Var.
Despite the low values of tidal coefficients, the “waves-submersions” phenomenon associated with the storm will be remarkable and will affect the coasts of the Atlantic seaboard, with particularly powerful waves on the Aquitaine coast.