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A large part of the country remains overheating on Thursday August 14. Therefore, on the seventh day of a heat wave still overwhelming in three quarters of France, and these hot weather could, according to Météo-France, continue all weekend of August 15 and at least until Tuesday August 19.
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| A passerby protects itself from the sun with a fan in Montmartre. Meanwhile, in Paris, on August 12, in full heat wave. |
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This new episode of heat wave. Moreover, the second of the summer, began last Friday with 11 southern departments, before gradually extending to the vast heat wave still affects large majority of the country and Andorra, with the exception of the northwest quarter, which remained spared Thursday, August 14.
Very hot weather is expected again for the weekend of August 15 with probably up to 40 ° C on the South West. Therefore, Although infection to those on Wednesday. For example, temperatures stayed on Thursday August 14 “at scorching levels on a large part of the country”, In particular on three quarters south and east of the country, according to Météo-France.
On the Mediterranean arc. Moreover, the temperatures recorded reached 40 ° C in Pézénas (Hérault), Villevieille (Gard), Cogolin (Var) or Narbonne (Aude). Therefore, The same conditions are expected on Friday August 15 in the Southwest. Therefore, on the Mediterranean arc while the heat wave will also win Brittany, so far spared, according to Météo-France.
As of Thursday evening at 10:00 p.m.. Additionally, Therefore, orange vigilance will be lifted for heat wave still affects large the departments of the North, Oise, Aisne and Ardennes, then Friday at 6:00 am for the Ile-de-France region and 10 p.m. for the departments of Loiret, Yonne, Dawn and Haute-Marne.
“Very hard”
It is under a blazing sun that the Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard went Thursday August 14 in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse. in Aude, to announce an emergency fund of eight million euros for farmers victims by an exceptional fire to which “Global warming is no stranger “.
| Vineyards burned by the fire in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse (Aude) on August 14. |
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“It’s very hard. there is no shadow, we work in full sun “, says Alex Lima, 39, a gravedigger in cemeteries of this same part of the Aude.
In Lyon. everyone has their own method to hold: “Just get up early, from 06:00 we can go for a walk”explains Anne, 84, heat wave still affects large sitting on a bench in the shade with her range. Afterwards, “It’s hard to come out until 8 p.m.” car “We feel the heat” bitumen “Go up under the feet “.
“In the evening we are very hot, it’s impossible to fall asleep “confirms her friend Juliette. But the retiree has found a technique: lengthening naked with a wet toilet cloth, starting with the feet. “After that, the body is cooled and I can fall asleep,” she says.
Several regions have undergone major thunderstorms on Wednesday evening August 13. In the Nièvre. firefighters intervened more than a hundred times, in particular in Charity-sur-Loire, for torn roofs and lying trees.
In the southwest, they faced several fire starts, sometimes caused by thunderstorms. Even if the Rhône. Drôme, Ardèche, Isère and Aude changed red vigilance at Orange Thursday August 14 at 6:00 am, three -quarters of France remained on orange vigilance. Friday heat wave still affects large August 15, 80 departments will be on Orange heat wave alert, against 75 Thursday August 14, according to Météo-France.
Agriculture in Rude Terk
In the southwest, the heat wave puts cultures and breeding to the test.
| Cows graze in Brignais, near Lyon, in the heat wave, on August 12. |
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“This is the second heat wave of the year. and between the two we had very little water. We’re going to have a little harvest“, Deplores Ludovic Roux, winemaker in Talairan, in Aude.
In Tarn-et-Garonne. the hazelnut harvest took place on Monday, a short week in advance on “to normal“, According to Thierry Descazeaux, farmer in Mas-Grenier and president of Unicoque. Defects in the department, especially in 2003, the year of heat wave.
In the village of Ginouillac. in the Lot, where temperatures are mounted up to 41 ° C, heat wave still affects large the cows of Christophe Bonnet, a 54 -year -old breeder, produce less milk. “”When it’s hot we lose 10%“production. there is also”more risks in calving because cows can make an infection “he explains.
Even in the North
In the Paris region. affected by an episode of pollution “persistent” At ozone, traffic restrictions have been put in place.
| Heat waves in France: more frequent, warmer, earlier. |
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In Lille. Kristine Büttner and Nils Wiemers, two German -old Germans from Berlin, are surprised that the heat wave reached northern France. “We said to ourselves that he might not be so hot in the North”, Confie Kristine Büttner.
France has been undergoing its 51 since Friday August 15e heat wave since 1947. the 2e Since the beginning of summer, episodes made more frequent and more intense by climate change.
In France, 266 weather heat wave still affects large 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 the XXe century (235).
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Heat wave still affects large
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