Temperatures will climb further this weekend with a Sunday, June 29 with suffocating heat in the Gard. The other effect is the increase in the water temperature in the Mediterranean, well above seasonal norms.
The heat wave will remain topical at the end of this weekend in the Gard with ever higher temperatures. Sunday, June 29 will be particularly hot with maximums that will reach 37-38 ° C. The temperatures felt remain around 40 ° C of Alès at the Nîmes Garrigues in the late afternoon these days.
For this Wednesday day and that of Thursday, Météo France did not place the Gard in yellow alert for heat wave. But that could evolve at the end of the week as well as in the early week next week with even higher temperatures.
This Tuesday, June 24, at the weather stations in Nîmes Courbessac and Garons, the temperature felt exceeded 42 ° C at the end of the afternoon!
Seawater much hoter than normal
The other phenomenon is the increase in the temperature of the Mediterranean. And it is particularly high in the Gard, 27 °, seven degrees above seasonal norms according to our colleagues from Figaro who devoted an article to this phenomenon. Clearly, such a water temperature is reached rather at the heart of summer and not in June.
For forest fires, vigilance remains yellow, in moderate risk for three -quarters of the department. Another effect of these high temperatures: air quality is degraded this Wednesday and this will be the case again Thursday, June 26 according to Atmo Occitanie.
