Several heat records for the period were broken on Saturday, with more than 32°C in certain localities.
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The symbol of an earlier spring from year to year? Marked by a heat peak, Saturday April 6 was the hottest day ever observed in France before April 15, according to calculations by Infloclimat, a French association. “volunteer meteorology enthusiasts”. “It follows 26 months in a row above standards in France”explains the structure on the social network
The national thermal indicator, which averages the daily temperature across the country, reached 17.6°C on Saturday. Several heat records for the period were broken on Saturday in several regions of France. It was 32.7°C in Orthez and 32°C in Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 30.5°C in Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées), 28°C in Munster (Haut-Rhin) or even 21 .8°C at Markstein, at an altitude of 1,184 meters in the Vosges.
Under the effect of global warming, the consequences of which are increasingly visible in France and around the world, this heat peak illustrates a broader phenomenon, marked by a cycle of seasons which will be disrupted.
