The heatwave is spreading in France. Five additional departments, all located in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, were placed on Sunday, August 9, in orange heat wave vigilance, while 15 departments in the north of the country remain in red, Météo-France announced.
"Five departments of the Center-East are going under orange heat wave vigilance: Haute-Loire, Isère, Ain, Savoie and Haute-Savoie," said the meteorological institute. France therefore now has 54 departments on orange alert. Fifteen departments, ranging from Hauts-de-France to Île-de-France, remain placed in red vigilance.
The departments concerned by red vigilance are precisely the Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Somme, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Oise, Eure, Paris and its inner suburbs (Hauts-de -Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne), Seine-Maritime, Yvelines, Essonne and Val-d'Oise.
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Stormy weather over a large part of France
The weather is becoming less stable than the previous days with heat thunderstorms that will develop over a large part of France ranging from the Pyrenees, to the Center, to Burgundy, and in the Massif Central and the Center-Est, further specifies the last bulletin. meteorological.
This scorching episode which promises to be "lasting" over a large part of France is "particularly problematic in certain departments", given the health context and the degradation of air quality in fine particles, adds Météo France . A "broad and frank stormy degradation" should put an end to it, by the west, from Wednesday, notes the meteorological service.
On this Sunday, the heat wave will continue with minimum temperatures that will still have difficulty falling below 18 to 23 degrees. They will be cooler in Brittany and Normandy with 15 to 18 degrees. The thermometer will display in the afternoon always high values, included in the land between 32 and 37 degrees in a very heavy atmosphere. However, it will be cooler, between 25 and 30 degrees on the Atlantic coast, Brittany and the Channel coasts, as well as on the Mediterranean coast.
This episode, characterized by very hot nights, should be among the five most severe known by France in recent decades, behind the historic heatwaves of 2003 and 2006.
With AFP
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