Vitoria (EFE)
The Basque Department of Security has specified that the notice is in force throughout this Monday and tomorrow Tuesday until Wednesday morning.
In fact, this morning it snowed in several parts of Euskadi, such as Vitoria, and even the fallen flakes had La Concha beach in San Sebastián white.
For today, Euskalmet forecasts that the snow level will be around 0-100 meters, rising to 100-200 meters at the end of the day. In the central hours of the day it will snow with a little more intensity.
Great thicknesses are not expected this Monday: from 2 to 10 centimeters at 1,000 meters of altitude, from 1 to 5 cm. at 600 meters, and 0-2 cm. 200 meters.
Operational road plan
Faced with this situation, the Basque institutions have activated the winter road plan in its “operational phase”, with which the snowplows and other resources are prepared to act on the snow warning in the next few hours.
The 2022-2023 Winter Road Plan, coordinated by the Basque Government, includes the possibility of activating up to a total of 205 snow plows from the provincial councils and highways and 7 heavy cranes, located at strategic points, for the removal of large vehicles. tonnage.
In addition, there is the possibility of mobilizing another 130 vehicles that will serve as support for coordination and surveillance tasks. To these are added patrols from the Ertzaintza, whose number may be reinforced as needed. EFE