The Ardennes, Aube and Marne join the list of departments in orange vigilance at the risk of thunderstorms. In total, Météo France has placed 52 departments on orange alert: 33 for the risk of thunderstorms and 31 due to the heat wave. If the temperatures cool on the Atlantic coast, the heat wave persists in the north-eastern regions where Météo-France forecasts up to 38 degrees, and locally a little more in the plain of Alsace. In the morning, Sunday June 19, Météo France recalled that a “Early and intense heat wave is underway over a large eastern part of the country”waiting for a “strong stormy degradation in the evening this Sunday from New Aquitaine to Ile-de-France”. Follow our live.
800 illnesses at Hellfest. At Hellfest, festival-goers had to brave the heat wave. In Clisson (Loire-Atlantique), where the music festival has been taking place since Friday, bringing together 180,000 metal fans, water walls and giant misters have been set up by the organizers and the bottles of water on the concert area and water bottles were allowed. Despite these measures, the emergency services managed more than 800 illnesses on the site, due to the stifling heat, reports France Bleu Loire Océan. Saturday, at 4 p.m., the thermometer showed 39° in the department. Follow our live.
33 departments on storm alert. The storm alert concerns the following departments: Ardennes, Aube, Charente, Cher, Corrèze, Creuse, Dordogne, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Marne, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Nièvre, Sarthe, Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Tarn-et-Garonne, Vienne, Haute-Vienne, Yonne, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint- Denis, Val-de-Marne, Val-d’Oise.
31 departments still on heatwave alert. The departments concerned by the orange heat wave alert are: Ain, Allier, Ardèche, Aube, Cantal, Cher, Côte-d’Or, Doubs, Drôme, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Isère, Jura, Loir-et -Cher, Loire, Haute-Loire, Loiret, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Nièvre, Puy-de-Dôme, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Rhône, Haute-Saône, Saône-et -Loire, Vosges, Yonne and Territory of Belfort.
The heat causes a brief power outage in Saône et Loire. A power outage, linked to high temperatures, affected Sunday morning for two and a half hours around 50,000 inhabitants of Saône-et-Loire, in particular in the municipalities of Creusot, Montchanin, Autun, Étang-sur-Arroux and Saint – Gengoux-le-national. “A breakdown at the Montchanin Electricity Transport Network (RTE) substation, obviously linked to high temperatures, led to the shutdown of four Enedis source substations (Le Creusot, Autun, Epinac, Montchanin) in around 4 o’clock in the morning, causing power cuts and breakdowns on the telephone antennas”, specifies the prefecture in a press release. RTE and Enedis restored the equipment and the situation returned to normal around 6:30 a.m.
Numerous heat records. Temperatures sometimes above 40 degrees were recorded on Saturday and many heat records were broken in the west of the country. The meteorological service noted on Saturday “peaks close to 42°/43°C”in the southwest, with temperature records “all months combined”, as in Biarritz (42.9°C) or in the Arcachon basin (in Cap-Ferret) (41.9°C) or in the Landes, in Biscarrosse (41°C, 1968 record equaled). The symbolic 40°C mark has also been reached elsewhere in the West, such as Deux-Sèvres (Niort), Charente-Maritime (Rochefort), Ille-et-Villaine (at La Noé-Blanche), Maine-et-Loire (Angers) and Indre-et-Loire (Reignac).
A gust of wind claims one victim. Saturday evening, a powerful and unexpected gust of wind on the “flowery coast”, between Ouistreham and Deauville, caused the death of a kite-surfer, projected against the window of a restaurant in Villers-sur-Mer (Calvados) . This unexpected meteorological phenomenon, which “lasted 20 to 25 minutes”, also caused “three minor injuries”, said the prefecture.