Météo-France extended, Sunday, June 29, its orange heat wave at 84 departments for the day on Monday, only a band on the Atlantic facade of Brittany in Pas-de-Calais being spared, as well as two other departments, according to the last bulletin of the Meteorological Institute published Sunday at 4 p.m.
Saturday Météo-France had placed 73 departments in orange heat wave for Sunday, while almost all of the country is immersed in stifling heat for this early summer, which could last at least until next week.
Maximum temperatures will be stationary around the Mediterranean periphery, where they will be between 37 ° C and 40 ° C, specifies the body. “On the rest of the country, they will often be between 34 °C and 38 ° C, very punctually 39/40 ° C. Only the departments close to the English Channel and the Belgian and German borders will keep temperatures below 34 ° C »he continues.
The “Paroxysm of this scorching episode” According to him, he should be reached Tuesday and Wednesday with very high minimums, between 20 ° C and 24 ° C, or even a little more very locally, and maximums reaching 36 ° C at 40 ° C with a few points at 41 ° C.
Crisis meeting at the Interior Ministry
“A sensitive decrease will begin on Wednesday in the regions close to the Channel and the Atlantic facade, the beginnings of a probable sensitive refreshment Thursday from west to east, generalizing to the whole country at the end of the week, except near the Mediterranean, where the hot weather could persist”Adds Météo-France.
An inter -ministerial crisis meeting was summoned in the evening Place Beauvau for “Iron all instructions”especially in terms of ” health “announced the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, on BFM-TV. The Ministry of Education has already recalled the measures to be taken in schools to cope with the very hot weather, which can go, in some cases, until the authorization to keep children at home. The city of Tours, like others, has already announced the closure of all its schools on Monday and Tuesday afternoon, for “Protect children and staff”.
This fiftieth wave of national heat since 1947, the thirty-third of the XXIe century, a consequence of global warming, which has been hitting France since June 19, also touches biodiversity hard. “With this suffocating heat, the temperature can exceed 40 ° C in certain nests”Alarmed the president of the League for the Protection of Birds, Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, quoted by the Agency France-Presse (AFP).
In the Côtes-d’Armor, where the green tides are common, the mayor of Hillion, Annie Guennou, decided to close access to one of his beaches due to the excess of toxic gas threshold due to the green algae failed in putrefaction, a phenomenon reinforced by heat, she told Ouest-France.
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Sunday at 10 a.m., temperatures much higher than 20 ° C proved to be “Frequent on the southern half of the country”with 28 ° C in Lyon and 34 ° C in Marseille, according to Météo-France, which also was 35 ° C in Perpignan.
This heat wave concerns all of southern Europe, from Italy to Portugal, where 45 ° C could be reached. In Spain, where he made 46 ° C on Saturday in El Granado, temperatures should still exceed 40 ° C in a large part of the country.
The cause of this new peak is a dome of heat: a large and powerful anticyclone forms a kind of cover that holds the air in low layers, preventing the entrance from disturbances, while gradually warming it.
In France, the tighter towl number was reactivated on Saturday morning. Town halls and prefectures also multiply the recommendations for the most vulnerable audiences.
