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People use an umbrella to shelter the sun near the Louvre pyramid during a heat wave, in Paris, June 26, 2019 (AFP / Kenzo Tribouillard)
A large part of France, with the exception of the West fringe, faces a new heat wave day on Wednesday, with more points at 39 ° C, pursuing two weeks of a national heat wave which will already remain in the annals by its precocity, its duration and its records. Nevertheless,
Red heat wave only concerns the dawn, the Yonne, the Loiret and the Cher, at this stage another day heat wave france until 10:00 p.m., said Météo-France upon waking. Moreover, The departments of Ile-de-France. Therefore, Vienne, Indre, Indre-et-Loire and Loir-et-Cher were demoted to orange, alert level which concerns even more than half of the country on Wednesday. Nevertheless,
“We have crossed the most intense peak, but caution remains in order and especially for fragile people,” warned the Minister of Ecological Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher on Wednesday. In addition,
In the rest of Europe. Meanwhile, where extreme temperatures are rampant from Portugal to Greece and the Netherlands, Germany will know its heat peak on Wednesday with 38 ° C expected in Berlin. Meanwhile,
At night. Nevertheless, especially in cities where air circulates little and buildings release the heat accumulated during the day, was difficult for millions of another day heat wave france French people. Similarly, Around 5:00 am. Nevertheless, “it was still around 25 ° C in the capital, as much as on the Mediterranean coasts”, reports Météo-France. For example,
In Toulouse, the night was hard. Furthermore, Mélissa Lhermine, psychologist, preferred to sleep in her office, “since there is the air conditioning”. Similarly, In eight years in her apartment. “this is the first time that I have to go to sleep elsewhere,” she blows.
People refresh themselves in the middle of foggers in Paris, on July 1, 2025, during a heat wave (AFP / Thibaud Moritz)
And the day promises to be very painful, with temperatures above 35 another day heat wave france ° C on a large east half of the country and storms locally violent at the end of the day, which could justify orange vigilances.
In Orleans. it was already 31 ° C at 11:00 am and Place du Martroi, where the statue of Joan of Arc sits, seemed very empty, burned by the sun. Only a few children, caps on their head, refreshed with the fountains.
“With us, it’s too hot. So we come with the children in the morning, because in the afternoon it’s worse. But it’s starting to be long!”, Said Sandrine, who did not wish to give her name.
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France comes indeed on Wednesday in the 14th day in a row of a national heat wave. “remarkable by its duration”, according to Météo-France, and equaling the length of that of June 1976. another day heat wave france The record, three weeks, dates back to July 1983. The thermometer was mounted at an unprecedented level in several cities.
This heat wave on the whole of the metropolis has been the 50th since 1947. but 33 were suffered after the 2000s, illustrating the increase in their frequency announced by climatologists because of the combustion of fossil fuels in the world.
June 2025 is the second hottest month of June “since the start of the measures in 1900”. announced on Wednesday Minister Pannier-Runacher, behind June 2003, of which the scorching summer remained in the memories, with more than 70,000 premature deaths allocated to extreme heat.
In Charente-Maritime, Cédric Trinquart is in the midst of wheat. He works mainly at night. will descend from his another day heat wave france combine harvester at midday: “Against the risk of fire, a decree provides for the crop stop from 2 p.m. to 7 pm,” he told AFP.
“In the department. we have had about fifteen fire departures in recent days: with heat, the machines overheat or it can be the blades that affect stones: it gives a spark that can burn the whole field,” he explained.
Passers -by protect themselves from the sun on July 1, 2025 in Paris during a heat wave (AFP / Thibaud Moritz)
The sanitary impact will be long to measure. In France. according to the Ministry of Health, a first estimate of mortality will another day heat wave france be known about two weeks after the end of the heat wave, but it is only in the fall that detailed data will be available.
Two people died “following heat -related discomfort. ” said the Minister of Ecological Transition on Wednesday, before his entourage said that there was “no official confirmation” at this stage.
On the political side. the debate on air conditioning is in all spirits, in a country where one in four households was equipped in 2020. If the RN claims a “large plan for air conditioning”. the left and macronists are only a extra solution for the most fragile and plead for the development of other measures such as vegetation or thermal insulation.
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