Saint-Jean-de-Luz largely beat its temperature record this Thursday with 41.9 ° C recorded by Météo-France at 5 p.m., beating a previous mark dating back to the heat wave of 2003, like several other resorts in the south of France. Where is.
The Basque seaside resort had experienced a temperature of 40.2 ° C on August 4, 2003 during the heatwave, recorded at the meteorological station of Pointe de Socoa. "A broken record of 1.7 ° C is a record broken down, especially compared to the heatwave of 2003, it is quite exceptional", indicated Olivier Cabanes, Météo France engineer in Bordeaux.
" Hot flush "
"But this is a hot flash over a day, which will subside," he said. "The wind will indeed turn to the west (Thursday) evening, a cooling will intervene in the night for a return (Friday) to a normal temperature for the season, with a forecast of 27 ° C, or 15 ° C of less (than Thursday). "
Another absolute heat record was broken this Thursday in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, with 39.9 ° C in Bustince, near Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. But this figure should be put into perspective, according to Olivier Cabanes, because this weather station did not yet exist at the time of the 2003 heatwave.
The Biscarrosse-Parentis station, in the Landes, also broke an absolute temperature record: it was 40.5 ° C. But the weather station only opened in 2014. Cazaux en Gironde (station opened in 1921) had its hottest day since… 1982, with 40.6 ° C.
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