The hot weather returns. The mercury climbs everywhere in France, Sunday July 31, and can reach up to 37°C in the South-East, according to Météo France. Consequently, the forecaster placed five departments on orange vigilance at 4 p.m. for the heat wave: Ardèche, Drôme, Gard, Vaucluse and Pyrénées-Orientales.
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During the night from Sunday to Monday, the temperature will not drop below 23 to 25 degrees on the coastal plains of Languedoc and it will also be very mild towards the lower Rhône valley, no less than 20 to 23 degrees.
In addition, Météo France warns of the risk of a “very high fire danger” in the Mediterranean zone, linked to the wind regime (mistral and tramontane) “strong enough” and to “conditions remaining very hot and dry on an increasingly sensitive vegetation”.
In the Southeast, temperatures are expected to continue to climb on Monday, up to 39°C, according to a map from Météo France, which shows the trend of maximum temperatures. We therefore expect between 36 and 39°C on Tuesday throughout Occitania, from 34 to 36°C in the South-West, while in the rest of the country it will be between 30 and 34°C. Then between 36 and 38°C on Wednesday, throughout the West and in the Lyon region, as well as in the Rhône valley, and from 30 to 36°C in the rest of France. With one exception: they will remain below 30°C towards Brittany and the Channel.
In the north of the country, the episode will be short-lived with the return of “cooler” air from the northwest on Thursday and Friday. In the south, the warm air will last longer, especially in the southeast. air mass animation pic.twitter.com/O6vhLJtRJe
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“L“Azores anticyclone, responsible for the July heat wave, returns to the territory”, warns Jean-Yves Choplin, forecaster at Météo France. Nevertheless, metropolitan France should escape the phenomenon of “hot pushes”which led to temperature records exceeded in July. “In the north of the country, the episode will be short-lived with the return of ‘cooler’ air from the North-West on Thursday and Friday. In the South, the warm air will last longer, especially in the South- East”explains Météo France.
France already experienced an early heat wave in June and is emerging from a second which lasted from July 12 to 25. This last “now constitutes the 45th heat wave recorded since 1947”, “the third most intense, with a peak of the national thermal indicator at 28°C on July 18” and “the fifth longest”according to Meteo France.