a particularly hot month of October

In Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne), it is 26 ° C, Wednesday, October 19 in the morning. For many, this Indian summer is worrying. “There must certainly be something abnormal at the climatic level“, estimates a man. With this heat, a greengrocer modifies his stalls. “For the moment, people are not soup (…) they are more salad than soup”explains David Castel, first in Marmande.

In Indre-et-Loire, the flowering of chrysanthemums has accelerated. “The flowers will open more quickly. The risk (…) is that the flowering lasts less, so we hope that the temperatures will cool down a little”, says Jean-Robert Pasquier, green space works manager. The current heat episode is due to a mass of hot air coming up from Spain and the Maghreb. In the South West, temperatures have not dropped below 25°C for five days. This episode is exceptional in its duration and this month of October is for the moment the hottest in history.