In the southwest, temperatures will often reach or even exceed 40 ° C this Monday, August 11.
It is a very intense, even exceptional heat peak, which will rage in a vast southwest this Monday, August 11 in the afternoon, “with maximums which will be very frequently greater than 40 ° C with locally 42 ° C, perhaps more”, warns Météo France.
Red vigilance!
Faced with this episode of intense heat, Météo France therefore placed no less than 12 departments in red vigilance for the heat wave, including six in Occitania, for this Monday from noon:
- Lot
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Tarn
- hears
- Haute-Garonne
- Gers
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Dordogne
- Charente
- Charente-Maritime
- Gironde
- Landes
41 Other departments are placed in orange alert, including the 7 remaining Occitania departments, and 30 departments from Brittany to Haut-Rhin via the Paris region on yellow alert.
The heat increases again in the center-east, details Météo France, and progresses north. We will exceed 30 ° C everywhere in France, with points at 36-38 ° C in Center-Val-de-Loire, and 32-34 ° C in Ile-de-France.
Heat storms
In this heat wave, heat thunderstorms are likely to break out on the Breton tip, west of the Pyrenees and on the Alps. Seven departments are placed in yellow vigilance:
- Finistère
- Côtes-d’Armor
- Morbihan
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Hautes-Pyrénées
- High-alpes
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence