Snowfall disrupts traffic with the worst yet to come

Heavy snow forecast for whole country from Tuesday evening, including coast

Snow by the C-25 road in the Osona county
Snow by the C-25 road in the Osona county / ACN

ACN | Barcelona

February 27, 2018 10:53 AM

Heavy snowfalls are expected all over Catalonia from Tuesday at 6pm, even reaching the coast, with the snow expected to fall as low as 0 meters above sea level. Yet in the early hours of the morning, snow had already begun falling in the northern part of the country. This disrupted traffic on the C-25, C-17 and the C-37 main roads, with cars obliged to drive with winter tires or snow chains during the night. In the morning the situation improved and the snow chain obligation was lifted for the C-25 and the C-17 main roads. Yet, school transport has been suspended in the whole of the Osona county, and also some routes in the Moianès, Selva and Berguedà counties. The University of Vic, in Osona, cancelled its lectures on Tuesday.

'Exceptional, large episode' of snow

On Tuesday morning, the Catalan civil protection service warned that the country is about to face “an exceptional, large episode” of snowfall from this evening. “We will all have to take actions that we are not used to taking, we call on people not to become surprised or scared,” said Joan Delort, director general of Civil Protection, in an interview with the RAC1 radio station. Delort also said his authority will ask the Catalan Traffic Service to restrict the circulation of lorries on the entire traffic network. For Delort, when the evening approaches all lorries should have to stop, “as it is uncertain where exactly it will snow.”