 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello.
Any snowheads either living permanently or UK residents living temporarily Dans La France.
If so could you give me a weather outlook for Friday 29th January as i will be driving from Calais to Chambery.
Leaving Calais at around 0900.
Many thanks
Merci Beaucoup
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Timbobaggins, The weather over much of France has been unchanged for the last 10 days or so. In Northern France it's been overcast, quite cold, and mostly dry. No major snowfall is expected before the end of the week, although there might be some light falls down to sea level around Friday. I'd expect the motorways to stay very clear, but you might want to check meteofrance again in a couple of days
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Starting to get a bit concerned, the Meteo France site is showing snow from central France all the way across. Looked at my snow chains and the max speed i can go in them is 40kmh.
Reckon to make Chambery by Sunday 
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Bit cloudy at the moment.
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Timbobaggins, You are not alone - we're also leaving calais around 9 on Friday morning to drive down to LDA ..... if the weather is that bad we will be cancelling the overnight in Grenoble as we won't have reached there by then !!! 
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Thursday will be bad but should be clearing a bit by Friday.
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Probably of no use to you at all but there have been light flurries of snow today in the Paris region and more IS expected on Thursday and Friday throughout France. It's already very cold and didn't get above freezing here today. As others have said keep checking meteo france for the best updates for the whole of France. Good luck.
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Timbobaggins, I think it would be extremely unusual to be looking at snowchains on the main autoroutes. People coming down during snowy times at Christmas were sometimes organised by the police into convoys behind snowploughs - sometimes for hundreds of miles. Bit slow, but very safe.
But, looking on the bright side, looks like you'll have terrific snow for your holiday. 
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Timbobaggins, Like Pam said, the Friday before Christmas the motorways in France were about the worst I've seen in ten years, but we still didn't need chains. We're not expecting anything like that this week. I'm driving Paris to 3V on Thursday evening, and expect to do it in 6 or 7 hours.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Patch, Thanks, makes me feel better
pam w, Hopefuly will make Chambery by 2200 at latest ( hopefully before )
davidof, Makes me feel even better
bobblehat, If you see a black Mondeo estate give me a wave, mind you you are a few hours ahead
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You know it makes sense.
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Poster: A snowHead
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The A26 Paris Lyon motorway was closed this morning due to weather. A 40km of section between Avalon and Auxerre is shut. Check with autoroute FM 107.7 for updates. About 20 lorries involved in diverse accidents. Including one carrying oranges that collided with another loaded with sugar causing a severe traffic jam.
The Dijon motorway had some accidents but was passable.
> I think it would be extremely unusual to be looking at snowchains on the main autoroutes.
Not just unusual but it is illegal to use snowchains on any of the French autoroute system I think the fine is 135 euros.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Including one carrying oranges that collided with another loaded with sugar causing a severe traffic jam. |
Marmalade surely ?
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