From Charente-Maritime to Aude are announced maximum temperatures “very frequently greater than 40 ° C“, with “locally“Steps at 42 ° C, according to the National Institute.
“We could approach record levels, record new values, but the national record of 48 ° C should remain out of reach“Said the forecaster of Christelle Robert during a press point on Sunday evening.
On Sunday, several cities have already passed the 40 ° C mark, with 42.2 ° C listed in Hérault, 41.3 ° C in the Pyrénées-Orientales or 40.9 ° C in the Gard.
The heat wave, which has extended and intensified since Friday on the southern half of France, “Progress north“According to Météo-France.
In addition to the 12 departments in red alert from Monday noon, 41 others, located mainly below a line from Vendée to Doubs, were placed in orange alert. Only 13 will escape the extreme heat, in a fringe ranging from Normandy to Alsace via the North, the others being in yellow vigilance.
For the climatologist Jean Jouzel, “The risk of heat wave is twice as high in France than thirty years ago“. “We are in a context of global warming documented for forty years, so we are not surprised by what we live“He said in an interview at La Tribune on Sunday.
