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Weather alert: long -term heat:

Of Saturday August 16 at 9:00 am au Monday August 18 at 5:00 p.m. – Weather alert: long -term heat

Situation

The heat wave marks a rebound for this weekend in the west and south of the country. For example, The highest temperatures are located between Aquitaine and Occitania with 42 ° C tips on Saturday. Meanwhile, From the Pays de la Loire to the south of Brittany. Nevertheless, the temperature occasionally reaches 35 ° C

To the north, the situation begins to improve with an end of the heat wave which wins the Paris Basin, the Grand Est and Burgundy-Franche-Comté to the Center Val de Loire region and the north of Auvergne-Rhône Alpes on Saturday evening.

Observation

This night from Friday weather alert: long -term heat to Saturday was hot With minimum temperatures that did not go down below 25 ° C to La Rochelle. Nice and even 31 ° C to Sète who has just known her hottest night ever observed.

Yesterday afternoonthe heat has once again been shown to be torrid. jailing, stifling in the south of France where the 40 ° C bar has been reached in Aquitaine and Occitania to Provence with:

41.9 ° C in Montpazier (24)
41.5 ° C in Durban-Corbières (11)
41.5 ° C in Pissos (40)
41.1 ° C at the Crown (16)
40.9 ° C in Carcassonne (11) and Brive La Gaillarde (19)
40.5 ° C in Bergerac (24)
40.4 ° C in Narbonne (11)
40.2 ° C in Montauban (82)
39.7 ° C in Toulouse (31) and Auch (32)
39.6 ° C in Angoulême (16)
39.5 ° C in Cognac (16) and Toulouse (31)
39.2 ° C in Bordeaux (33)

Evolution

This Saturday: new scorching peak on the west
SATURDAY Mark a new peak of heat. with maximums around 38 ° C or locally a little more, up to 42 ° C again, along the Garonne valley, between Bordeaux and Toulouse as well as in Languedoc-Roussillon. On the other hand. the north and the entire east of the country leave the heat wave, to the north of Rhône-Alpes in the evening.

Sunday August 17
The scorching episode fades slowly. But temperatures are maintained at very high levels. still around 35 to 38 ° C from Aquitaine to the Mediterranean regions and 30 to 32 ° C from Brittany to the Pays de la Loire. The drop in temperatures continues from the north to the eastern center with 25 to 30 ° C maximum.

Monday August 18
The leaving door of this heat wave for weather alert: long -term heat the southernmost regions is expected on Monday evening. after a last very hot afternoon in Aquitaine south of Rhône-Alpes in the Mediterranean and before Tuesday thunderstorms.