Paris sees red, France continues to stifle

France is suffocating and making its back Tuesday against extreme heat and which lasts, with for the first time in five years the red vigilance for heat wave activated in Île-de-France, and always a hot sun.

Paris will see red.

“It is very. Furthermore, very, very hard, but it does not matter, we are used to it,” already signed Jimmy George on Monday on Monday sitting on a sidewalk in the shade. Nevertheless, As with other sectors, its schedules have been set up. Furthermore, “We have somewhat elongated breaks”, an advanced postal taking, he explains, green combination and hand-soaked cap.

Traffic restrictions are put in place. Nevertheless, an “antipollution package” at 4 euros the day is established in Ile -de -France public transport and even the Eiffel Tower is struggling: the 330 meter puddled iron summit will remain closed to the public until paris sees red, france continues Wednesday included.

Sixteen departments are in red vigilance from Tuesday noon. Meanwhile, Among them all the departments of Île-de-France. However, but also those of the Center region (except Eure-et-Loir) as well as dawn, Yonne and Vienne. Meanwhile, At the national level, 68 departments remain in orange vigilance.

The instructions for all: “Do not go out during the hottest hours (11 a.m. to 9 p.m.), or try to go to a cool or air-conditioned place two hours a day”.

– “trying” heat –

Météo-France plans a “very strong” scorching peak in the Paris basin with “particularly trying” warmth.

Tuesday is expected to be the hottest day of this episode with minimums of 23-24 ° C in the south. and maximums reaching 36 ° C, or even 41 ° C in the departments in red vigilance.

Faced with this episode “exceptional in terms of intensity. duration and geographic area”, under the terms of the Minister of Health Catherine paris sees red, france continues Vautrin on RTL, communities adapt.

The city of Melun (Seine-et-Marne) has closed all public establishments welcoming children. At the national level, some 1,350 public schools, out of 45,000, are partial or total closure on Tuesday.

The agglomeration of the Grand Poitiers has opted for free swimming pools for which it has the management.

Several days and nights of heat promise to experience organisms.

In Bordeaux, in a bakery near the Grand Théâtre, Jordan Lods, 30, wipes the drops of sweat on his face. “We have an air conditioning, but we don’t feel too much,” euphemized this sales manager. In the streets of the very mineral city, the bitumen is even warmer, sweating the rare cyclists or pedestrians outside.

“Jo”, a 55-year-old SDF rue Sainte-Catherine, known as “suffer a lot”. “When it is cold, we cover, I add covers, hats. But when it is hot like that, what can I do? Nothing that it goes by. paris sees red, france continues hoping not to make discomfort,” said the man, big green sunglasses screwed to the face, thanking a passer-by who hands him a granite.

– “Daily struggle” –

Emergency services are on deck.

“It is a daily struggle. a game of dominoes and anticipation of problems”, summarizes Pierre-Marie Tardieux, chief of emergency room at the Nice University Hospital. He says he receives “around 30% of the elderly. but also building workers, athletes, young people who have had hot blows” as well as “many people who live in the street”.

This 50th national heat wave identified since 1947. the 33rd of the 21st century, is part of a context of climate change which increases its intensity and frequency.

On Sunday. two measures testified to the unprecedented character of the phenomenon: the Mediterranean recorded its hottest surface temperature for a month of June, at 26.01 ° C on average, according to the European program Copernicus. And the Mont paris sees red, france continues Blanc. at 4,806 m above sea level, “had to record a positive temperature, at 1 or 2 ° C, which arrives only in the heart of summer”, explains to AFP Antoine Courteaud, forecaster and nivologist of Météo-France in Chamonix.

This heat wave concerns all southern Europe, from Italy to Portugal. Spain recorded 46 ° C on Saturday, a record for a month of June.

The cause of this new peak is a dome of heat: a large. powerful anticyclone forms a kind of cover that blocks the air in low layers, preventing the entrance to disturbances while gradually warming it.