Météo France placed 25 departments on heatwave orange vigilance on Thursday June 16 and 12 on heatwave red vigilance from Friday. The departments in red vigilance are mainly located along the Atlantic coast, while the departments in orange vigilance are mostly located further inland, as well as in the Pyrenees, in the south of Brittany, and even in Drôme and Ardèche. Temperatures are expected to rise further through Saturday.
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The 12 departments in red vigilance are Charente, Charente-Maritime, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Gironde, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Deux-Sèvres, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne , Vendée and Vienne.
The 25 departments in orange vigilance are: Ardèche, Ariège, Aude, Aveyron, Cantal, Cher, Corrèze, Creuse, Dordogne, Drôme, llle-et-Vilaine, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Haute- Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Lot, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Morbihan, Puy-de-Dôme, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Sarthe and Haute-Vienne.
12 deposits in #vigilanceRed
25 deposits in #vigilanceOrangeStay informed at https://t.co/rJ24zzDXpC pic.twitter.com/AUK0tXPzzY
— VigiMeteoFrance (@VigiMeteoFrance) June 16, 2022
Never had a heat wave been so early in France. This is the fourth time that heat wave red vigilance has been used since the system was put in place after the lessons learned from the historic heat wave of 2003 which killed more than 15,000 people in France. Heatwave red vigilance, the highest level of the “national heatwave plan”corresponds both to an exceptional meteorological event and to a health alert justifying a “maximum mobilization”.