42 Orange alert departments for Sunday day

Two departments will be added to the 40 already placed in orange heat wave for the Sunday day. However, while the heat wave is intensifying on France, announced on Saturday August 9 Météo-France.

Saône-et-Loire. Consequently, Jura are added to the 40 departments of the southern half of the country placed in orange alert from Sunday noon and the alert “Is still likely to be extended according to the evolution 42 orange alert departments sunday of temperatures”indicates the public establishment in its point of 16 hours.

“The heat wave, started this Friday in France, of a scorching level on the southern half, continues and extends. Therefore, The peak is expected between Monday and Tuesday. However, It should last until next weekend ”he comments.

For Saturday day. Meanwhile, 28 departments in the South are already in orange heat wave, stresses Météo-France which signals some temperatures “Remarkable” Released Saturday at 3 p.m.: 38.0 ° C in Lyon-St-Exupéry, 36.8 ° C in Montélimar (Drôme) or 35.8 ° C in Bordeaux-Mérignac.

Monday could be “The hottest nationwide”said the forecaster. Meanwhile, stating that the heat wave “Should last until next week in the southern half of the country”. For example, “The minimum temperatures of the night from Friday to Saturday had trouble descending under 20 ° C on the southwest. the center-east of the 42 orange alert departments sunday territory”explained, Saturday morning, Météo-France.

Since noon. Friday, have been placed in orange the Rhône, the Loire, the Isère, the Drôme, the Ardèche, the Hautes-Pyrénées, the Haute-Garonne, the Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne, as well as the Aveyron and the Lot. Since Saturday noon. vigilance has extended to the Dordogne, Aude, Puy-de-Dôme, Ain, Savoy, Haute-Savoie, Allier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Ariège, Cantal, Charente, Corrèze, Gers, Haute-Loire, Lozère and Lot-et-Garonne.

Trend linked to climate change

After a first summer heat wave from June 19 to July 4. this episode constitutes the fifty and first upper heat wave recorded in France since 1947, according to its surveys. Météo-France has also alerted a danger ” pupil “ Forest fires around the Mediterranean periphery. while the fire of exceptional magnitude in the Aude was set Thursday evening after having traveled 17,000 hectares of vegetation and cost the life of a person.

This new heat wave. combined with very low precipitation, will worsen the drought of the soil, already very marked in the southwest. To anticipate “Potential air conditioning breakdowns”the SNCF removed three round trips on old trains until Monday on the Bordeaux-Marseille. line.

This episode of heat also coincides with a weekend of hunting-crossed between motorists on the holiday route, 42 orange alert departments sunday with traffic announced as “Difficult on all or part of the territory, from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 August” “. The most busy day of the weekend will be Saturday 9. classified orange at the national level in both directions and noted “Very difficult in the direction of departures in the Grand West, the North and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, as well as in the Southwest in the direction of returns”smart bison alert.

“We note an acceleration of the occurrence of heat waves over time. This trend is well linked to climate change. which has a strong impact on temperatures in France ”underlined to the agency France-Presse Lauriane Baté, climatologist in Météo-France.

July 2025 was the third warmest month of July ever recorded on the planet with an average temperature upper 1.25 ° C to that of this same month in a pre-industrial era (1850-1900), announced on Thursday, the 42 orange alert departments sunday European Observatory Copernicus.