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After a slight lull on Thursday. Similarly, due to thunderstorms, the thermometer starts up on Friday, with 70 departments placed in orange alert by Météo-France, on the eighth day of the heat wave which affects the country and the south of Europe.
Mercury must reach 40 ° C again – “punctually more” – in the southwest. Furthermore, indicates the last bulletin of the Institute, which also provides very strong temperatures “on the Mediterranean arc”.
Mercury goes up in the Great West – Heat wave: almost all france
With 35 degrees announced. In addition, “the heat wave also wins Brittany, hitherto spared”, notes the national forecastist, while “regresses” in the north of the country, classified in green.
The Île-de-France is no longer on orange vigilance for 6 a.m. For example, this Friday. the lifting of this alert level is also planned for the Loiret, the Yonne, the Aube and the Haute-Marne from 10 p.m.
On the heat wave: almost all france other hand. the thermometer rises in Finistère, Morbihan, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Indre-et-Loire, Loir et Cher and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques which will switch to orange on Friday.
No red alert but watch out for vulnerable people – Heat wave: almost all france
The current heat wave for eight days has to last at least until Tuesday but. “at this stage, we do not envisage red vigilance for this weekend,” said Damien Griffaut, Météo-France, Thursday, during a press briefing.
The time is therefore to adapt to heat to which the elderly. isolated are particularly vulnerable, even if prevention has improved since the deadly heat wave of 2003.
In Bordeaux, which had broken its heat record on Monday with 41.6 ° C, a municipal register lists more than 3,600 “fragile” people, including a quarter of “isolated seniors”.
The town hall decided to open. Friday and Saturday afternoon, three air-conditioned reception places for the elderly; Museums and three swimming pools will also be open on heat wave: almost all france this holiday, among other exceptional measures.
Risk of high fires
In the Landes. where the Feria de Dax is held until Sunday, which brings together several hundred thousand people every year, the municipality canceled certain animations on Friday “due to the hot weather”.
The risk of fire will also be high in the coming days in the south. the west center, due to drought and winds.
From Saturday, “we have the establishment of a tramontane and a Mistral on average Rhône valley. Even if they are moderate. this will lead to risks “of risks, particularly marked on the Aude and the Drôme which” will pass in danger of very high fire, therefore in red, “added the forecourt of Météo-France.
End of the scorching episode at the start of the week
New thunderstorms. early next week, should lower temperatures, according to the Institute, and put an end to this new episode of heat wave, the second of heat wave: almost all france the summer and the 51st in France since 1947, these phenomena being made more frequent and more intense by climate change.
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