While Météo France continues to forecast intense rains and that five departments of the South-West have been placed on red alert for floods and rain-floods, the prefectures are taking their precautions.
In the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, school transport to schools and colleges in the Aspe and Ossau valleys, and to high schools in Pau, Mauléon and Oloron-Sainte-Marie from these areas, are thus canceled on Monday , announces the prefecture.
This “advises” parents to take their children to school and calls for “limiting” travel “to the strict minimum” in these valleys.
The authorities fear the flood of the Gave d'Oloron.
Disturbed traffic in some areas
Train traffic is also suspended between Oloron-Sainte-Marie and Bedous.
In the Pyrénées-Orientales, placed on orange vigilance for avalanches, heavy snowfall is disrupting traffic between Andorra and France, indicates France Bleu.
Large traffic jams thus formed between Hospitalet and Porté-Puymorens when the Porté-Puymorens tunnel was closed on Sunday evening.
Several hundred vehicles are stranded in l'Hospitalet towards the Puymorens tunnel and the # andorra #pyrenees #ariege 📷 @Meteo_Pyrenees pic.twitter.com/Fg1HB838OU
- Météo Pyrénées (@Meteo_Pyrenees) January 9, 2022
A little further on, snowfall also disrupts traffic in the Font-Romeu sector.
And access to the town of Mérens-les-Vals and the south is blocked.
Route de Font Romeu #pyrenees 📷Mcdietsport pic.twitter.com/v3ygBYEQWq
- Météo Pyrénées (@Meteo_Pyrenees) January 9, 2022
"Due to bad weather conditions and the state of the roads", the traffic on the RN 320 and the RN 22, allowing to reach Andorra, "was prohibited to all vehicles", indicated Sunday evening in a press release. joint the prefectures of Pyrénées-Orientales and Ariège.