Europe 1 with AFP 9:57 p.m., July 29, 2022
Barely out of a heat wave, mainland France will experience a new episode from Monday with temperatures that can climb up to 39°C in the South-East, Météo-France said on Friday, a clear sign of change. climatic.
"It can settle for several days in the south-eastern quarter of the country", specifies Météo-France
Barely out of a heat wave, mainland France will experience a new episode from Monday with temperatures that can climb up to 39°C in the South-East, Météo-France said on Friday, a clear sign of change. climatic.
"After a brief breather this week over a large part of the country, temperatures are rising again this weekend," Météo-France told AFP.
“A new heat wave is setting up in France with temperatures that can exceed 35°C in a generalized manner from Monday south of a Bordeaux-Lyon line”.
“It can settle for several days in the south-eastern quarter of the country”, adds Météo-France, which specifies that there remains “uncertainty” after Wednesday.
Between 36 and 39 degrees in the Southeast
A Météo-France map showing the trend in maximum temperatures between Monday and Wednesday indicates that the thermometer could climb to 36 and 39°C in the South-East towards the Rhône valley, between 36 and 39°C on Tuesday in the South-West, then between 36 and 38°C on Wednesday in the East in an area going from Alsace to the Lyon region.
In Paris, temperatures will reach 30 to 34°C.
They will remain below 30°C towards Brittany and the Channel.
A third heat wave since June
France already experienced an early heat wave in June and is emerging from a second wave that lasted from July 12-25.
The latter "is now the 45th heat wave recorded since 1947", "the third most intense, with a peak in the national thermal indicator at 28.0°C on July 18" and "the fifth longest", according to the Météo-France website.
93 departments affected by a drought restriction
These high temperatures are coupled with a historic drought in July.
On Friday, 93 departments were affected by a restriction beyond vigilance.
Since Thursday, "the Vaucluse, the North and Haute-Savoie have gone into crisis" and "the Côtes d'Armor have gone on heightened alert", according to the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
In the North, the prefecture has for the first time at the level of the department, triggered the drought crisis level.
The measure concerns the 37 municipalities of the Yser basin, whose "degradation has reached an unprecedented level which endangers aquatic life" according to the prefecture.
Only three departments are spared: Paris, Hauts-de-Seine and Seine-Saint-Denis.