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Snow and icy roads in north overnight
Normandy, Picardy and Pas-de-Calais will see a few centimetres of snow, with frost and fog in Alsace and Champagne
FORECASTERS are warning of icy roads across parts of northern France on Monday morning as temperatures fall below freezing.
Météo France is expecting a few centimetres of snow tonight in Normandy, Picardy and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Some light snow is also forecast for the Paris region.
Temperatures in the north-east, along the Belgian and German borders, will fall to -3°C in some parts overnight, with fog, frost and hazardous driving conditions the following morning.
More snow is forecast across most of eastern France on Thursday, with a slight improvement in temperatures across the country by the weekend.
