Part of the Rhône-Alpes region, the Mediterranean periphery and Corsica will still have hot and 13 departments will be on orange heat wave, Saturday July 5, before gradually returning to green from Monday, Météo-France.
The departments in Orange Saturday will be the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, the Alpes-Maritimes, the Ardèche, the Aude, the Bouches-du-Rhône, the Drôme, the Gard, the Hérault, the Pyrénées-Orientales, the Var, the Vaucluse as well as the two departments of Corse.
Isère will be released from orange vigilance on Friday at 10 p.m. The Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and the Alpes-Maritimes will have to wait until 6 p.m. on Saturday. In the southeast, heat will resist temperatures from 33 to 37 ° C and, locally from 38 ° C in the shade.
“The subsequent trend is a continuation of the regression of the heat wave, especially from Sunday, and all the departments should return to green from Monday 6 am at the latest”specifies the meteorological agency in its latest bulletin.
Most of France knew on Wednesday and Thursday the last days of an episode of heat wave which will remain in the annals by its precocity, duration and its unpublished temperatures.