A new, stifling heat wave started on Friday August 8 with 11 departments in the south of France placed in orange heat wave, vigilance which will extend to 28 departments on Saturday.
In the afternoon of Saturday, over a large part of the southern half, “Temperatures will be between 37 ° C and 39 ° C, and locally we can reach 40 ° C”specifies Météo-France, which marks the second heat wave in France this summer.
“The very high temperatures should intensify at the start of next week”with the hottest days scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, before maintaining at least until the second part of the week, specifies the weather service in its latest bulletin published on Friday noon.
Since noon, Friday, have been placed in orange vigilance the Rhône, Loire, Isère, Drôme, Ardèche, Hautes-Pyrénées, Haute-Garonne, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne, as well as Aveyron and Lot.
From Saturday noon, vigilance will extend to the Dordogne, Aude, Puy-de-Dôme, Ain, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Allier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Ariège, Cantal, Charente, Corrèze, Gers, Haute-Loire, Lot-et-Garonne and Lozère.
After a first summer heat wave from June 19 to July 4, this episode constitutes 51e Heat wave recorded in France since 1947, according to his statements.
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Météo-France has also alerted a danger ” pupil “ Forest fires around the Mediterranean periphery, while the fire of exceptional magnitude in the Aude was set Thursday evening after having traveled 17,000 hectares of vegetation and cost the life of a person.
This new heat wave, combined with very low precipitation, will worsen the drought of the soil, already very marked in the southwest.
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