After more than a week of heat wave and temperatures around 40 ° C, the second heat wave of summer ends. Temperatures will drastically decrease, sometimes with 10 ° C less on the thermometer. The clouds will be back, accompanied by thunderstorms and rain.
For more than a week, France has suffocated in the scorching heat. After a first peak between Monday 11 and Wednesday August 13 and a second on the weekend of August 15, temperatures should return to normal from Tuesday, August 19.
Only 13 departments around the Mediterranean will still be affected by orange vigilance on Monday, August 18, while “temperatures are going down on a large part of the country,” said Météo France.
A last day of heat
Monday, August 18, the heat will still be present in France. The entire territory will benefit from significant sunshine throughout the day, with the exception of some clouds on the Atlantic facade and thunderstorms on the Breton tip. Temperatures will always be above seasonal values, around 20 ° C in the morning and 30 ° C in the afternoon.
It will be 21 ° C in Cherbourg, 23 ° C in Brest and Biarritz. But up to 30 ° C in Auxerre, Chalon-sur-Saône, Marseille and Toulouse and 34 ° C in Montélimar. The first storms will point their noses in Ariège and in the Pyrenees-Orientales.
Decrease temperatures on Tuesday
As of Tuesday, France will come out of this second heat wave of summer. The temperatures will revolve around 25 ° C in the afternoon, with maximums of 29 ° C around the Mediterranean periphery. In Occitanie, it will be 21 ° C in Rodez, 24 ° C in Saint-Céré, Albi and Toulouse, 26 ° C in Montpellier, 27 ° C in Béziers and Carcassonne and up to 28 ° C in Nîmes and Perpignan.
Consider temperatures throughout the week and until weekends. The very strong heat regress, a decrease accentuated by “the marked presence of fumes raised from Spain”, explains Météo France.
Stormy episodes throughout the week
The drop in temperatures is nevertheless accompanied by stormy episodes throughout France and particularly in the Southwest. The atmosphere will be heavy and stormy Tuesday August 19 with a multiplication of showers.
Thunderstorms will extend to three-quarters of France as early as Wednesday before locating themselves in the South West and East on Thursday. It was not until Friday August 22 for the weather conditions to calm down and the sun returns all over France.
The sun will shine in France throughout the next weekend, with seasonal temperatures.
Even if the heat wave ends, the weather channel recalls that it will continue to be hot, probably until the end of the month. The Augustian temperatures are already well above seasonal averages.
