However,
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Friday from 12 noon. For example, the Bouches-du-Rhône, the Gard, the Hérault and the Pyrenees Orientales will switch to orange vigilance, with as aggravating factor the surface temperatures of the Mediterranean Sea which may influence the effect of minimum temperatures, making more stifling on the nightswarns Météo-France in its morning vigilance bulletin.
Temperatures between 35 and 38 ° C, locally 39 ° C or even more at the lands, are provided. Therefore,
But the heat could still worsen. Furthermore, above all extend, with, from Saturday noon, nine additional departments on orange alert: the Alpes de Haute-Provence, the Alpes-Maritimes, the Ardèche, Drôme, Haute-Corse, Isère, Rhône, Var and Vaucluse, details the meteorological agency.
The maximums on Saturday will generally be close to 37 to 39 ° C.
This is a early scorching episodeincluding the duration. Furthermore, the progressive geographic extension to the north, impose special vigilanceMétéo-France insists, who judges probable The extension of orange vigilance in the coming days.
Prohibited forest massifs
Firefighters study a map of the Bouches-du-Rhône department, July 25, 2023 in Gardanne
© / afp.com/CHRISTOPHE SIMON
France has been crossed since June 19 by its 50th wave of national heat since 1947. half of which were suffered in the 21st century, a consequence of global warming which increases the intensity and frequency of heat waves.
For several days already, town halls, prefectures and firefighters have multiplied warnings and recommendations.
In the Bouches du Rhône. department most exposed to the risk of forest in mainland France according to the prefecture, the prefect announced the closure of 14 forest massifs, with 26, with strict prohibition to enter it. A partial ban on work has been taken in seven other massifs. where the work is authorized only in the morning.
The firefighters of Bouches-du-Rhône. faced for several days with many fire departures for the moment limited, have announced Preventive devices prepositioned on the ground between massifs and road axes in order to allow massive intervention in the event of fire departure.
In the Vaucluse. the prefecture, invoking a risk of forest fire deemed very severealso declared a ban on the massifs of the Rhône Valley, by reserving access to groups accompanied by a professional trained and limiting the carrying out of work between stifling heat risk fire – 05:00 and 1:00.
In the Gard. the prefecture, which fears temperatures up to 40 ° C on Saturday, announced an extension of the schedules for day access to the department, with distribution of water bottles, provision of air -conditioned rooms and showers, as well as the reinforcement of the Samu Social.
A building worker cools off in Nantes on June 19, 2025, during the heat wave that touches France
© / AFP.com/loic Venance
The Gard prefect also calls for Very great vigilance For all those working outside. asks employers to Take into account the risks induced by climatic conditions and ofAdapt the work accordingly.
In Marseille. the town hall announced free municipal swimming pools until the end of the scorching episode and the provision of a map of air -conditioned public places.
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