It is very hot in Switzerland and it will continue

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Temperatures never stop climbing. The Confederation will increase the degree of danger on Sunday.

Due to the heat wave, the Confederation decreed the second highest level of danger (3 out of 4) in a large part of Switzerland from Sunday. Temperatures up to 35 degrees are expected in the coming days.

While the plains of southern Alps, Valais and the Lake Geneva region are already affected by a heat wave on Saturday, it will also reach the other low-altitude regions throughout the country on Sunday, announces Météosuisse on Saturday on its website.

High temperatures throughout Switzerland

Temperatures should thus reach 32 to 34 degrees in the coming days south of the Alps, with relative humidity up to 55%. Even at night, the temperature should no longer descend below 20 degrees.

In the plains of German -speaking Switzerland, temperatures of 33 degrees are expected from Sunday, and up to 35 degrees in the Basel region. Relative air humidity could reach 30 to 45%. Minimum temperatures should be between 17 and 21 degrees and be higher in urban areas.

It’s hot even very very high

On Saturday noon, Météosuisse measured using a probe above Payerne (VD) a new absolute temperature record at a pressure of 500 hectopascals: -4.28 degrees. This air density exists at around 5,500 meters above sea level.

This brand is all the more astonishing since the previous records were generally established at the end of the summer, written Météosuisse on X. The previous -4.9 degree record had been measured on August 10, 2024. A year earlier, -5.0 degrees had been recorded on August 20, 2023.

At the same time, the survey revealed a limit of zero degree at around 5100 meters above sea level, said Meteonews on X. This had never happened in June since the start of the measurements. (ATS)

A machine crashed on Saturday in the Fusshörnern region. A person died.

A helicopter crashed on Saturday afternoon in Valais, Fusshörnern, in the region of the Oberartsch glacier, on the territory of the commune of Naters. One person lost their lives and another was injured.