The situation improves but 25 departments are still placed in orange alert this Sunday

The alert was lifted in nine departments. Similarly, the end of the heat wave is expected in France between Monday evening and Tuesday morning. However, Aude has been in “extreme forest risk”, the maximum level never reached in the department since 2016. Meanwhile,

A significant and welcome improvement. Nevertheless, In total. 25 departments are still on orange vigilance for heat wave, a weather announcement France Sunday, August 17, in its 6 -hour bulletin. The alert was lifted for the departments of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Brittany, as well as the Corsican departments and the Hautes-Alpes.

The departments always concerned are the Loire-Atlantique. the Vendée, the Charente-Maritime, the Charente, the Gironde, the Dordogne, the Landes, the Lot-et-Garonne and the Lot, the Tarn-et-Garonne, the Gers, the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, the Hautes-Pyrénées, the Haute-Garonne, the Tarn, the Ariège, the Hérault Pyrénées-Orientales, Gard, Bouches-du-Rhône, Vaucluse, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes and Var.

The concern is in the Aude, including the corbières affected by the gigantic fire left on August 5. The department is this Sunday in “Extreme forest risk” (Level 6 out of 6). a first in the department since 2016, according to the prefecture and firefighters. A tramontane lifting is expected with 60km/h wind gusts, conducive to fire spread, while temperatures will rise to 39 situation improves but 25 departments ° C. The Aude firefighters provide “A great surveillance, beyond everything we have known”. A total of 1. 200 firefighters are “On alert” All weekend in the department, according to the prefecture, of which 330 still mobilized on the supervision of the fire gone between the municipalities of Ribaute and Lagrasse and which is still extinguished.

Several absolute heat records were broken on Saturday, with 41.7 ° C in Pezenas-Tourbes in Hérault (the previous record was 41.4 ° C on August 10, 2025), 40.7 ° C in Perpignan in the Pyrénées-Orientales (against 39.9 ° C in August 2023), 40.3 ° C in Montpellier in Hérault (against 37.8 ° C 2024) and 39.5 ° C in Aigues-Mortes in the Gard (against 39.2 ° C in August 2023). At the end of the night from Saturday to Sunday. the temperatures were still very high near the Lion of the Gulf of Lion, situation improves but 25 departments with for example at 5:31 ° C in Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) and 28 ° C in Narbonne (Aude) and Sète (Hérault). In France, 266 weather stations recorded at least once a temperature of 40 ° C or more between August 9 and 12, 2025 included. More than all the second half of the 20th century (235).

The fresh air present in the north of the country is gradually gaining ground towards the south. will bring down temperatures throughout France. The maximums will no longer exceed 29 to 31 degrees throughout the center and north part. According to Météo France. “The very strong heat regress southwest and Mediterranean periphery, where there are still 36 to 38 degrees, locally 39 to 41 degrees in the interior of Languedoc and Roussillon”. Orange vigilance should be lifted at 10 p.m. in all the departments of the Pays de la Loire still concerned. as well situation improves but 25 departments as in New Aquitaine and the Lot. The end of the scorching episode is scheduled between Monday evening and Tuesday morning.