These are Gironde, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Tarn, Haute-Garonne, Drôme and Ardèche.
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Beware of high heat. Seven departments in the south and south-west were placed on Tuesday July 12 in orange vigilance due to a heat wave. These are Gironde, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Tarn, Haute-Garonne, Drôme and Ardèche. The alert is valid from Wednesday 2 p.m. according to the latest report from Météo France.
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The weather conditions have already prompted the authorities to take action, with traffic restrictions in Ile-de-France and the banning of certain fireworks in Gironde. In this last department, placed by the prefecture on orange forest fire vigilance, like the neighboring Landes and Lot-et-Garonne, a fire in progress on Tuesday evening covered 200 hectares of pines near Landiras, about forty kilometers north. south of Bordeaux.
Twenty-four departments remain on yellow alert, mainly in the west and in the Rhône valley. Among them Morbihan, where the city of Vannes has decided to cancel, due to the heat expected on Wednesday, the parade of “Historical festivals” which was to attract 20,000 people.
A month after a first heatwave episode, France has been facing a new heat wave since Monday, an illustration of global warming which will cause summers “increasingly hot, where 35 degrees will be the norm”according to Météo-France, which this time expects an episode lasting “eight to ten days”with a peak probably “between Saturday and next Tuesday” (July 19).