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The heat wave continues. Furthermore, Saturday, August 16, in a large part of the country, even in the south of Brittany, with 54 departments placed in orange alert per Météo-France, on the ninth day of a heat wave which also affects southern Europe. Therefore, A particularly intense heat peak is expected in Aude 54 orange alert departments saturday, and Hérault, according to forecasts from Météo-France.
In Montpellier. Similarly, the thermometer should display, on Saturday afternoon, a maximum of 42 ° C, while Cherbourg (Manche)-in green, like the rest of Normandy-will benefit from a milder weather, with maximum temperatures between 22 ° C and 24 ° C.
This is the second scorching episode since early summer. Nevertheless, fifty and first in France since 1947, these phenomena being made more frequent and more intense by climate change.
The department of Bouches-du-Rhône will remain on orange heat wave at least until 54 orange alert departments saturday, Sunday. Meanwhile, with a slight increase in maximum temperatures on Saturday, from 37 ° C to 39 ° C inside the land, and from 34 ° C to 36 ° C near the coast. However, The scorching episode in the department is accompanied by ozone air pollution forcing the maintenance of differentiated traffic in Marseille.
Risk of fires in the South. For example, the Center-West
The risk of fires will also be high in the coming days in the south and the center-west due to drought and winds, particularly in Aude, the Vaucluse and the Drôme, who will go into red vigilance for the danger danger, announced Météo-France.
In the Aude. Meanwhile, where gusts of wind up to 45 kilometers an hour are expected on Saturday, 330 firefighters are still mobilized by the exceptional fire which has traveled 16,000 hectares and is still not extinguished, 54 orange alert departments saturday, presenting a risk of recovery accentuated by the hot weather. The Vaucluse prefecture, for its part, prohibited access to a dozen mountain ranges on Saturday.
Météo-France also placed six departments of the. fringe is from France as well as Corsica-du-Sud in yellow vigilance for thunderstorms on Saturday.
Expected lull
The heat wave will last until the end of the day. before regressing from the North and the West on Sunday and, above all, Monday. New thunderstorms. early next week, should lower temperatures, according to Météo-France, and 54 orange alert departments saturday, put an end to this long scorching episode.
The forecasters expect an end of orange vigilance on Saturday evening for all the departments of Auvergne. Limousin, Burgundy-Franche-Comté, Center-Val de Loire, as well as for Loire, Ain, Lozère, Aveyron, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne.
On Saturday at 6 am. twelve departments, mainly from the northeast, were already replaced in yellow vigilance, reported Météo-France in its latest bulletin. The Institute anticipates a wider decline on Sunday, especially in the center, with eighteen additional downgraded departments.
The heat wave started on August 8 in France. First confined to 54 orange alert departments saturday, the south. with particularly high temperatures in the Mediterranean South, it reached an exceptional level between Monday and Wednesday in the southwest in the center-east, where many records were broken. In France. 266 weather stations recorded at least once a temperature of 40 ° C or more between August 9 and 12 included; More than throughout the second half of the 20th century (235).
The heat wave also affects a large part of the south of Europe. with on the front line Spain, which will record its fourteenth consecutive day of heat wave on Saturday. Several cities will still know temperature peaks that may exceed 40 ° C. said the National Meteorological Agency AEMET, warning against the risk of fires “Very high or extreme in most of the country (…) Until Monday included “. Spain has recorded three deaths in these fires. including those of two thirty-year-old volunteers 54 orange alert departments saturday, who perished while trying to extinguish the flames in Castile-et-Leon (northwest), where a dozen lights remain very active. In Portugal. the president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, announced Friday evening “The death of the former mayor of Guarda Carlos Dâmaso, victim of a fire he was fighting in his commune”.
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