Snow, Ice… Météo-France Triggers Alerts for around Thirty Departments this Monday
After a very eventful week, this Monday 12th January 2026 will again be marked by complicated weather conditions, especially in the northeast.
New week, new vigilance. If last week was marked by heavy snowfall followed by storm Goretti, this Monday 12th January, 2026 will nevertheless be calmer.
However, Météo-France still, place around thirty departments in the northeast on snow-ice yellow alert. The reason? “The first rains could be freezing in the morning before the mild weather”, writes the forecaster.
A worsening of this level cannot be completely excluded if precipitation, as well as soil refreezing, proves to be greater than expected.
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Departments on snow-ice alert
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence avalanches
- Hautes-alpes avalanches
- Alpes-maritimes avalanches
- Ardennes : snow-ice, floods
- Ariège avalanches
- Charente : floods
- South Corsica avalanches
- Upper Corsica avalanches
- Gold Coast : snow-ice
- Doubs : snow-ice
- Haute-garonne avalanches
- Gers : floods
- Isère avalanches
- Lot : floods
- Lot-et-Garonne : floods
- Haute-marne : snow-ice
- Meurthe-et-Moselle : snow-ice
- Meuse : snow-ice, floods
- Morbihan : wind, rain-flood
- Moselle : snow-ice
- Pyrénées-atlantiques avalanches
- Hautes-pyrénées avalanches
- Pyrénées-orientales avalanches
- Bas-rhin : snow-ice
- Haut-rhin : snow-ice
- Haute-saône : snow-ice
- Savoy avalanches
- Haute-savoie avalanches
- Vosges : snow-ice
- Terr. of Belfort : snow-ice
- Andorra avalanches
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And in the rest of the country?
In the rest of the country, “continuous and relatively abundant rains are expected from Brittany to Normandy in the morning”, Morbihan is for example placed on yellow rain-flood alert.
On a southern half, you will be entitled to “large clearings”, despite a small gray sky and a few drops in the afternoon around the Gulf of Lion.
The southwest wind is noticeable in the northern half with gusts of 50 to 60 km/h. The Autan wind blows up to 50 to 60 km/h in its area. In the afternoon the south wind rises on the western ridges of the Pyrenees and in the Rhône valley to reach 60 to 70 km/h in gusts.
Many departments on avalanche alert
- Alpes-maritimes
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
- Andorra
- Ariège
- South Corsica
- Upper Corsica
- Haute-garonne
- Haute-savoie
- Hautes-alpes
- Hautes-pyrénées
- Isère
- Pyrénées-atlantiques
- Pyrénées-orientales
- Savoy
And the temperatures?
The frosts will remain present in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes but elsewhere the minimums will be positive and “increasingly milder going west, up to values around 10 degrees in Brittany”.
“The maximums are between 5 and 10 degrees in the North-East, 10 to 15 degrees elsewhere, up to 17 degrees in southern Aquitaine”, assures Météo-France.
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