70 departments in orange vigilance Friday, the heat wave must continue until Tuesday according to Météo-France

After a slight lull on Thursday, due to thunderstorms, the thermometer starts up on Friday August 15, with 70 departments placed in orange alert by Météo-France, on the eighth day of the heat wave which affects the country and the south of Europe.

Mercury must reach 40 ° C again-punctually more-in the southwest. In addition, announces the last bulletin of the Institute, which also provides very strong temperatures on the Mediterranean arc. For example, With 35 degrees announced. Moreover, the heat wave also wins Brittany, hitherto spared, notes the national forecastist, while it regresses over the north of the country, classified in green.

Ile-de-France is no longer on orange vigilance for 6 hours Friday. Consequently, the lifting of this alert level is also scheduled for Loiret, Yonne, Aube and Haute-Marne from 10 p.m. For 70 departments orange vigilance friday, example, On the other hand. the thermometer rises in Finistère, Morbihan, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques which will switch to Orange on Friday.

The current heat wave for eight days must last at least until Tuesday but ” At this point. we do not envisage red vigilance for this weekend ”said Damien Griffaut, of Météo-France, Thursday during a press briefing.

The time is therefore to adapt to heat to which the elderly. isolated are particularly vulnerable, even if prevention has improved since the deadly heat wave of 2003.

In Bordeaux, which had broken its heat record on Monday with 41.6 ° C, a municipal register lists more than 3,600 fragile people, including a quarter of isolated seniors. The town hall decided to open. Friday and Saturday afternoon, three air-conditioned reception places for the elderly; Museums and three swimming pools will 70 departments orange vigilance friday, also be open on this holiday, among other exceptional measures.

Suffocating – 70 departments orange vigilance friday,

Simon-Pierre Van Ginneken. a 44-year-old father, however decided to flee the 32 degrees of his apartment in the north of the city to ” réfugier » With friends in Ille-et-Vilaine (only yellow vigilance department) for the next three days. “I have a two -year -old girl. it quickly becomes suffocating for her, so we’re going to roll for six hours Friday morning but it will save her three scorching days from sleeping badly”he explains, however aware that in the village where he goes, more than 30 ° C are announced.

In the Landes. where the Feria de Dax is held until Sunday, which brings together several hundred thousand people every year, the municipality has canceled certain events on Friday “ Due to hot weather “.

The risk of fire will also be high 70 departments orange vigilance friday, in the coming days in the south. the center-west, due to drought and winds. From Saturday, ” We have the implementation of a tramontane and a Mistral on average Rhône valley. Even if they are moderate. this will lead to an increase ” risks, particularly marked on the Aude and the Drôme which ” will pass in danger of very high fire, therefore in red “added the forecourt of Météo-France.

New thunderstorms. early next week, should lower temperatures according to the Institute and put an end to this new episode of heat wave, the second of summer and the 51st in France since 1947, these phenomena being made more frequent and more intense by climate change. In France, 266 weather stations recorded at least once a temperature of 40 ° C or more between August 9 and 12, 2025 included. Is more than all the second half of 70 departments orange vigilance friday, the XX^e century (235).