The third wave of summer heat is expected to peak on Wednesday August 3. Météo France has placed 26 departments on orange “heat wave” vigilance (compared to 27 the day before), the Pyrénées-Orientales going into yellow vigilance. Up to 40°C are expected locally in the Southwest. Follow our live.
Twenty-six departments in orange vigilance. Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Territoire de Belfort, Haute-Saône, Doubs, Côte d’Or, Jura, Saône-et-Loire, Ain, Haute-Savoie, Loire , Puy-de-Dôme, Rhône, Isère, Savoie, Drôme, Vaucluse, Gard, Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Corrèze, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Tarn and Haute-Garonne are concerned.
Up to 40°C expected in the Southwest. The minimums for Wednesday will range from 14 to 21°C and up to 22 and 25°C near the Mediterranean. In the afternoon, it will be between 24 and 31°C near the Channel, the Atlantic and on the shores of Occitania, 32 to 38°C elsewhere. It is in the South-West that it will be the hottest, with 39 to 40°C locally.
France is totally dry. All departments in France are now concerned by one of the four levels of alert defined by the State within the framework of the “drought plan”: “vigilance”, “alert”, “reinforced alert” and “threshold of crisis”. We detail them in this article.