As noted, in the city of Verarg the thermometer on June 28 showed +46 ° C.

Earlier in the city of Carpentras in the south-east of France, the highest temperature during the entire observation period was recorded: +44.3 ° C.

According to weather forecasters, from the beginning of the next week in France, maximum temperatures will reach 30–35 ° C in the northern half and 35–39 ° C in the south-west and center-east.

Leading Researcher of the Main Geophysical Observatory named after A.I. Voeikova, climatologist Andrei Kiselyov, in a conversation with URA.RU, said that in the event of an abnormal heat period in Russia, the temperature in large cities in the summer will often exceed 40 ° C.