The heat wave continues in France, Saturday August 8. Météo-France indicates that nine departments are on red heatwave alert and 53 on orange vigilance.

The nine departments on red alert are Eure, Paris and its inner suburbs (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne), Seine-Maritime, Yvelines, Essonne and Val -d'Oise. 53 departments going from the South-West to the North and North-East are placed in orange vigilance. 

Over the western half of the country, the sky will sometimes be chaotic, locally very cloudy, especially in the morning on the Breton point and from the Charentes to the Landes. In the afternoon, beautiful clearings will return to the Atlantic coast with a slight west wind. 

On the other hand, the sky will temporarily become more loaded from the North to the Center with a few scattered showers. On the Massif Central, isolated thunderstorms will break out in the afternoon and may be locally sustained.

Thunderstorms will be more frequent in the Pyrenees, mainly at the bottom of the chain, accompanied by good gusts of wind. Some showers, sometimes stormy, may also develop in the border Alps. 

Minimum temperatures will range from 16 to 22 degrees. The maximums will vary between 26 and 32 degrees over Brittany and the entire coast. Elsewhere, they reach 33 to 40 degrees.

With AFP

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