“Points at 39 or even 40 ° C possible”: the heat wave, which awaits us in the coming days

Put your small wools back and bring out your fans because summer, which had been relaxed in the past fifteen days, is back. Consequently, And not just a little. Furthermore, “A heat peak is expected between August 6 and 9,” specifies the creator of the Meteo-paris.com site, Guillaume Séchet.

If its intensity is still “uncertain”. Nevertheless, especially in the north of the country, the meteorologist explains that “the American forecast model” announces, in the south and in particular the Southwest, “peaks at 39 or even 40 ° C possible”.

The breath of hot air goes back as often from the. Meanwhile, south of Europe. In addition, “From Monday. Meanwhile, a very hot air mass will accumulate on Spain, “points 39 even 40 ° with the establishment of a real heat dome, explains Régis Crépet, from the weather chain. However, Temperatures will reach exceptionally high levels there. In addition, often exceeding 40 to 42 ° C in Andalusia and even up to 45 ° C locally on the side of Cordoba or Seville. Similarly, »»

The Southwest particularly concerned – "points 39 even 40 °

The most concerned regions should be. according to the specialized channel, the southwest quarter, Occitanie, part of the Loire Valley Center, then the Hauts-de-France at the end “points 39 even 40 ° of the week. Maximum temperatures could exceed seasonal normal from 8 to 10 ° C, “with a feeling overwhelming in urban areas”.

In any case, the contrast will be striking with regard to the Frisquette weather in recent weeks. In Dijon (Côte d’Or). Sarah looked in the rear view mirror and deplores “a well rotten July: a lot of rain, gray days with wind and cold”.

The temperatures are on average two degrees under normal in France. in line with last week, noted last Thursday Météo France, which had even noted the return of snow to Savoy from 2,500 m altitude.

“It is true that the last fifteen days have not been tops. but the time has been much better than last year when we had known between the weather, the ambient gloom and the dissolution of the National Assembly, “points 39 even 40 ° one of the worst months of July in the last ten years” recalls Didier Arino, of the Protourism Cabinet.

“Here. where I am in Arcachon, there has been wind for a week, the weather has sometimes been a little cool and gray, with fewer people at the beach but as soon as the sun comes out, the streets are filled suddenly,” says the professional. Besides, there, the weather is very nice and I go to make the boat. »»

It is in the weather. there are the eternal optimists and the endless pessimists, some of which do not hesitate to surf the wave of the climatoscepticism. Like Stefano who posted on social networks a video of him in a car in a growing rain. “Ah. there is really the bowl of this global warming, it is no longer bearable, we are going to die, “points 39 even 40 ° burn,” quips the grumpy.

“From July 21 to 31. the weather has actually been cooler and July was even colder than June which has reached an exceptional temperature level, which had not occurred since 2003,” admits Guillaume Séchet. But if we look at the temperatures on a full month scale, July was warmer than the average of + 0.9 ° C ”.

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The warmest start of summer since 2003

“To those who say that summer is rotten because they have had three drops on the skull, remember that from June 1 to July 21, France has known its warmest start to summer ever recorded since 2003,” added the agroclimatologist Serge Zaka on his X account.

“So yes, it may have liked your campsite, or the air was fresh for two days in the Alps but the climate is not just your beach towel,” continues the man in the black hat. Getting does not disappear because you have put on a sweater one evening. »»

While the gloomy weather at the end of July assigned the morale of many French people. tourists, including in the south where the water from the Mediterranean was cooler than that of the Channel, climatologists are sorry to see this summer again from heat records fall.

Like these 50 ° C reached for the first time in Türkiye after mid-July. For the first time since the start of the measurements. the temperature has exceeded this level in South Anatolia, near the Syrian border with 50.5 ° C measured in Silopi.