The scorching episode will further diminish in France, Monday, August 18, the hot weather now focusing around the Mediterranean periphery on the tenth day of the heat wave which should touch its end in the evening.
According to the Météo-France morning bulletin published at 6 am, seven departments in the south of France remain in orange alert: the Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Hérault, Gard, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Vaucluse.
Heatwave vigilance should be lifted throughout the country “Tuesday morning with the arrival of thunderstorm rains from the west”according to the forecasting institute.
More than 40 ° C noted in the Hérault
The west and the south of France were still very hot on Sunday afternoon, including 40.4 ° C recorded in Pézenas (Hérault), near Béziers. In Canet-en-Roussillon (Pyrénées-Orientales), the thermometer displayed a maximum temperature of 40.6 ° C while Brest pointed to 30.5 ° C, according to data from the Meteorological Institute.
France has experienced its second scorching episode since the start of the summer and the 51e Since 1947, phenomena made more frequent and more intense by climate change. 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. A new notable accentuation of heat was made by the Southwest on Friday.
