The French complained that their summer looks like autumn… This has really not been the case for a few days.
Météo France maintained five departments in the south-east of the country this Friday morning in orange heat wave vigilance.
The inhabitants of Ardèche, Drôme, Alpes de Haute-Provence, Var and Alpes-Maritimes are concerned.
In these departments, temperatures should quickly reach daytime highs of between 36 and 39 ° C, and will locally reach 40 ° C in Provence.
A thermometer in slight increase compared to the day before in these departments already placed in orange heat wave vigilance.
On Thursday, the maximum temperatures observed reached 31 to 33 ° C on the coast of the Var and the Alpes-Maritimes, and 35 to 37 degrees in the interior of the Var, the Alpes-Maritimes and the west of the Alpes-de-Haute. -Provence.
Over a large southern half of Ardèche and Drôme, the maximum temperature values were between 33 and 36 ° C, locally 37 ° C, specifies Météo France.
Heat wave episode until Sunday
It will also be hot in the surrounding departments placed in heat wave yellow vigilance.
In Isère, in the Rhône, Hautes-Alpes, Haute-Loire or Lozère, the maximum will go from 33 to 37 ° C.
They can go up to 37-39 ° C in Gard, Vaucluse and Bouches-du-Rhône.
Météo France indicates that on Saturday the temperatures in the departments in orange and yellow vigilance will remain substantially the same as this Friday.
This heatwave episode is expected to continue until Sunday.
The departments of Tarn, Haute-Garonne, Ariège which were in yellow yesterday for a peak of heat return as planned in green vigilance this morning, this Friday day being lower there than the day before with maximum temperatures expected around 30-32 ° C.
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