temperature records reached on Monday

The afternoon of Monday July 18 was the second hottest on record in France nationwide after August 5, 2003, with an average temperature of 37.6°C. It was up to 42.7 ° C in Maine-et-Loire. “104 cities broke absolute records, i.e. never recorded: in Brittany, in Pays de la Loire, in the south-west“, reports Anaïs Baydemir on a tray. For example, it was 42°C in Nantes (Loire Atlantique)42.6°C in Biscarrosse (moors) or 39.3°C in Brest (Finistère)where the previous record was 35.2°C in 1949.

Tuesday, July 19, the heat shifts further east. “We are going to lose 10 to 15°C in the west of the country, but the temperatures have already dropped last night, in particular due to a sudden storm in the Basque Country, i.e. a rapid change in the direction of the winds. bringing in much cooler maritime air“, explains the journalist. The temperature moves eastward on Tuesday, with temperatures ranging from 38 to 40°C.