In its latest bulletin, published this Wednesday afternoon, Météo France keeps 26 departments on heat wave orange vigilance for this Thursday August 4th. The high temperatures will persist tomorrow Thursday before dropping again during the day on Friday.
A peak of heat reached this Wednesday
The heat peak affected the whole of France this Wednesday with temperatures of at least 35 degrees over three quarters of the country. Temperatures will continue to rise this Wednesday evening, sometimes reaching locally up to 39 degrees from the south-west to the Rhône valley, indicates Météo France in its latest bulletin.
Among the “coolest” places in France, it was 25 degrees in Brest, up to 26 degrees also in Biarritz and even only 21 degrees recorded at 4 p.m. in Cherbourg. On the other hand, the thermometers are mounted up to 37 degrees in Toulouse, Valence or Bordeaux and up to 35 degrees in Auvergne at Clermont-Ferrand.
Another hot Thursday
The night from Wednesday August 3 to Thursday August 4 will be hot, with temperatures above 20 degrees in the departments on orange alert. The heat wave will persist and even extend tomorrow Thursday. He will do 35 degrees over much of the country. The thermometer may even exceed the 39 degrees in a wide band from the southwest to the Rhone Valley indicates Meteo France.
On Friday, temperatures will remain high in Provence and Rhône-Alpes.
The list of departments in orange vigilance
- Aïn
- Ardeche
- Correze
- Golden Coast
- Drome
- Doubs
- Gard
- Upper Garonne
- Isere
- Jura
- Loire
- Upper Loire
- Batch
- Lot et Garonne
- Puy de Dome
- Lower Rhine
- Upper Rhine
- Rhone
- Haute-Saone
- Saone and Loire
- Savoy
- Haute-Savoie
- Tarn
- Tarne et Garonne
- Vaucluse
- Territory of Belfort