The scorching episode will regress on Sunday and focus on the southern half of the territory and South Brittany, with 36 departments placed in orange alert by Météo-France, on the tenth day of the heat wave which should touch its end on Monday evening.
On the Mediterranean perimeter, temperatures scheduled for Sunday afternoon oscillate between 35 and 37 degrees and will reach Languedoc and Roussillon up to 41 degrees.
Perpignan and Montpellier should exceed the 40 degree mark according to Méteo-France.
France has experienced its second scorching episode since the beginning of summer and the 51st since 1947, these phenomena having made more frequent and more intense by climate change.
The fresh air present in the north of the country is gradually gaining ground towards the south and will bring down temperatures throughout France. The maximums will no longer exceed 29 to 31 degrees throughout the center and north part.
The forecasters expect an end of orange alert on Sunday morning for the departments of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, from Brittany, as well as for the Corsican departments and the Hautes-Alpes.
Météo-France also placed Corsica in yellow vigilance for thunderstorms on Sunday.
The heat wave started on August 8 in France. First confined to the south, with particularly high temperatures on the Mediterranean South, it reached an exceptional level between Monday and Wednesday in the southwest to the center-east, where many records were broken.
In France, 266 weather stations recorded at least once a temperature of 40 ° C or more between August 9 and 12, 2025 included. More than all the second half of the 20th century (235).
A new notable accentuation of heat was made by the Southwest on Friday. The end of the scorching episode is scheduled between Monday evening and Tuesday morning.
The south of Europe is not to be outdone with in particular Spain which enters its third week of heat wave alert and never ceases to fight the fires which are concentrated in the northwest and the west of the country.
