"Heavy snowfall has blanketed southeastern France's Ardeche region, delivering a white Christmas and casting a picturesque winter scene while disrupting rural life across the mountainous district. Drone footage from Friday reveals vast plains, villages and dark green evergreen forests transformed into a stunning white landscape. Frost-covered fields stretch for miles along highways, while snow ploughs carve winding roads through towering drifts. France's national forecaster Meteo-France had warned of significant snowfall from Wednesday through Thursday night, cautioning that a cold air mass sweeping across the country - from the German border to the Atlantic coast - could bring snow to unusually low altitudes. The forecaster has issued an orange rain and flood warning for the region, urging residents to avoid water streams and submerged roads amid rapidly changing weather conditions."