84 Orange alert departments in France, 200 schools closed at least partially

If France suffocates in the heat, it is also because the temperatures do not descend enough at night. This is called a tropical night, which means that the mercury does not fall below 20 degrees when temperatures should be the most fresh, the night and in the early morning.

This night, the thermometer posted between 20 and 24 degrees on the majority of the country, and up to 27 degrees around the Mediterranean.

These tropical nights exacerbate the fatigue felt during the hot weather, since “when the temperature exceeds 20 degrees at night, we recover less well”, explains the emergency doctor Christophe Prudhomme on BFMTV.

Guest on RTL this Monday morning, the Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin announces the establishment of the “heat wave plan” in prison, “both for prison agents who work in very difficult conditions and for prisoners”.

In the measurements of this plan, “we completely review the schedules, we start earlier or finish later, we ask a certain number of questions around hydration” and we suspend “sports activities”.

The Keeper of the Seals also works with “the judge to apply sentences to avoid prison overcrowding (…) and prisoners are transferred from one region to another”.

With the heat wave, fear for fragile people. According to the emergency doctor, guest of BFMTV, the hot weather exacerbates the difficulties in the hospital, where “we are going to have people this summer on the stretchers and that is a source of excess mortality”.

“We learned nothing from the heat wave and we learned nothing from the COVID crisis. We are asked 20 billion euros in savings, how to do you do?” He wonders, before ironizing: “If we have to make 20 billion savings, the government must tell us what patients should not be treated”. He concludes: “We feared the coming summer”.

A heat wave for the body, “it’s as if we made sustained efforts”, explains on BFMTV Christophe Prudhomme, emergency doctor. “When the temperature exceeds 20 degrees at night, we recover less well,” he adds.

“Our lifestyle is not suitable. We will have to change our way of life,” explains the spokesperson for the Association of Emergency doctors in France, to adopt “that of the inhabitants of the Mediterranean basin, that is to say getting up earlier in the morning, taking a nap in the afternoon and having activities in the evening”.

In France, “our homes are completely unsuitable”, especially in summer, “including in hospitals”. “In the habitat, it is the poorest who suffers the most”, especially because of these unsuitable homes.

Spain, Portugal, Italy and France have been crushed by heat for several days, with peaks recorded up to 44 degrees.

On Saturday, Spain had recorded a record – which must be confirmed – since the start of the statements, with 46 ° C in Granado, Andalusia. The previous summit was 45.2 ° C in Seville in June 1965.

In Italy, 21 cities were on maximum alert on Sunday for extreme heat, notably Milan, Naples, Venice, Florence and Rome.

In Portugal, several areas of the southern half of the country, including Lisbon, are on red alert until this evening. The risk of fire is maximum, as in Sicily where the firefighters fought 15 on Saturday.

The heat wave extends this country on Monday on Monday on Monday, while 84 departments are on orange alert according to the last Météo-France bulletin.

The forecast institute is planning maximum stationary temperatures on Monday on Monday in the Mediterranean periphery, between 37 and 40 ° C. On the rest of the country, the mercury will climb between 34 and 38 ° C, with peaks at 40 ° C on a western fringe in the southwest of the country.

Are expected in particular 35 ° C in Paris or in Rennes, 37 ° C in Toulouse and up to 38 ° C in Bordeaux and Montélimar. Only the departments close to the English Channel and the Belgian borders will keep temperatures below 34 ° C.

Some 200 public schools, out of 45,000, will be partially or total on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. In Tours, the town hall announced the closure of all schools in the city until Tuesday afternoon.

However, the Orleans-Tours Academy announces that seven colleges around the agglomeration, including four in Tours itself, will be able to accommodate children with priority staff (caregivers, social medico, teachers and security forces) or without a day care solution from 1:30 p.m., after lunch.

Traffic restrictions, including the lowering of 20 km/h of the maximum speed authorized on the A86 motorway around Paris, were decided in Ile-de-France, due to the hot weather and the risks of pollution, announced the Paris police headquarters.

It will be necessary to drive at 110 km/h maximum on the parts normally limited to 130 km/h; at 90 km/h on the portions of highways and fast tracks limited to 110 km/h; At 70 km/h on the portions of highways and fast tracks limited to 90 km/h and on the national and departmental roads limited to 80 km/h.

The prefecture recommends limiting travel by car and favoring telework. Heavy goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes must also bypass “by the Ile -de -France ring road”. These measures will be applied each day between “5:30 am and midnight until their prefectural decree”.

With the hot weather, it is difficult to resist stinging a head in the nearest river. With swimming now authorized in the Marne and on July 5 in the Seine, the question arises: can we bathe anywhere?

“The rule is that you can swim everywhere, unless it is prohibited,” said this Monday on France 2 Simon Porcher, professor at Paris Panthéon-Assas University and author of the book The end of the water?. Swimming is prohibited in two cases: “If it is unhealthy and if it is not secure.”

“You have to be careful and swim where it is allowed,” recalls the specialist.

What can you bathe in a river or a river like the Seine? If swimming is authorized, in theory, nothing. “It is controlled every day during the swimming period,” explains Simon Porcher, who evokes a “double control by the city of Paris and regional health agencies”, for the case of the Seine.

But beware, you have to find out before any swim. For example, “the state of the Seine changes quickly according to the weather,” said the teacher.

An interdepartmental crisis meeting was held on Sunday evening in Beauvau, in order to “iron all instructions”, particularly in matters of “health”, according to the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau.

The Minister of Education Élisabeth Borne recalled the measures to be taken in schools during hot weather, which can go as far as permission to keep children at home.

Some 200 public schools, out of 45,000, will be partially or total on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. “We will make sure that there is a welcome for families who need it,” she said.

Schools, companies and individuals are called to the greatest vigilance in front of a thermometer which will display more than 34 degrees throughout France, with the exception of the edges of the Channel and near the Belgian and German borders, according to Météo-France. 84 departments are maintained in orange vigilance on Monday and will remain so on Tuesday.

Such a geographic extension, “is unheard of,” said AFP the Minister of Ecological Transition on Sunday evening, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

A previous record for the number of departments placed in orange heat wave dated from July 23, 2019 with 81 departments (80 for the heat wave, 1 for thunderstorms), she said.

In its latest bulletin, Météo France maintains the orange heat wave at 84 departments for this day on Monday. Only the Breton and Norman coastlines, as well as the Belgian borders escape the alert.

A vigilance that will also last tomorrow, Tuesday, for the same number of departments.

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Such a geographic extension, “is unheard of,” said AFP the Minister of Ecological Transition on Sunday evening, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

A previous record for the number of departments placed in orange heat wave dated from July 23, 2019 with 81 departments (80 for the heat wave, 1 for thunderstorms), she said.

Hello and welcome to this direct dedicated to the heat wave that strikes France today. 84 departments are placed in orange alert. Only a band on the Atlantic facade of Brittany in Pas-de-Calais is spared by this vigilance, so the Hautes-Alpes and Corse-du-Sud.