Paris and its suburbs are suffocating like a large part of France for this Tuesday day, peak early and exceptional heat wave by its duration, pushing the authorities to take measures to protect the most vulnerable.
In the early evening, the sun remains hot and the mercury still reached 39 ° C around 6:00 p.m. in the capital, according to Météo-France.
Rémi, crossed in the Belleville district in the East Parisian, plans to go out only to get his daughter. “I am in teleworking and with heat, it is more difficult than usual, but at least, I do not have to move or take the transport,” explains the 30 -year -old, who prefers not to give his name, cap on the head.
But the heat wave did not affect only the Paris region. The thermometer is thus mounted up to 41.4 ° C at CADENET (Vaucluse)), 41.2 ° C in Chateaumeillant (Cher) or 40.3 ° C in Nîmes-GaRons (Gard) and Castelnaudry (Aude), detailed Météo-France on Tuesday evening.
“Measures were activated this morning for the protection of workers and in particular adapting schedules, suspending painful tasks, developing workstations,” assured François Bayrou from the operational center for inter -ministerial crises.
Traffic restrictions have been set up in the Paris agglomeration. Even the Eiffel Tower is struggling: the 330 -meter Puddled iron summit will remain closed to the public until Wednesday included.
Parks open at night, reinforced assistance of vulnerable people, extended swimming pool times: the city of Paris has activated level 4, the highest, its heat wave plan.
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Paris and fifteen other departments have been on red vigilance since noon, including the departments of Île-de-France, but also those of the Center-Val de Loire region (except Eure-et-Loir) as well as Aube, Yonne and Vienne.
Météo-France plans a “very strong” scorching peak in the Paris basin with “particularly trying” warmth.
The city of Melun (Seine-et-Marne) has closed all public establishments welcoming children. At the national level, nearly 1,900 schools, or 3% of the total, are partial or total closure on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Education.
This series of days and heat nights promises to experience the organizations.
In Bordeaux, Jo, a 55-year-old SDF on rue Sainte-Catherine, who did not wish to give her identity, says “suffer a lot”. The bitumen in this very mineral city is even warmer. He explains “waiting for it to pass and hoping not to make discomfort”.
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Emergency services are on deck.
Pierre-Marie Tardieux, chief of emergency room at the Nice University Hospital, estimates “around 30% of the elderly, but also building workers, sportsmen, young people who have had hot blows” as well as “many people who live in the street”.
On the emergency room passages, “for the moment, we have no significant lifts, but we know that there is a gap of a few days,” said the Minister of Health.
“With the heat wave, we will surely be more than 30%, plus 40% calls compared to normal,” said Professor Frédéric Adnet, head of service of the Paris Samu, noting an increase in the number of calls “essentially linked to discomfort, but for the moment not too much serious discomfort, not much hyperthermia, extremely serious pathology”.
This heat wave, which also concerns all southern Europe, is the 50th identified since 1947 and the 33rd in the 21st century.
“This event is unusual because it is extreme, very early in the summer season and that climate change has certainly aggravated it”, analyzes for AFP Samantha Burgess, climatologist for the European Observatory Copernicus.
“Climate change created a new standard,” warns this scientist, making heat wave more frequent, even in June and September.
Tuesday, England and Spain announced that June 2025 is the warmest ever recorded.
The cause of this heat wave, which concerns all southern Europe, is a dome of heat: a large and powerful anticyclone forms a sort of lid that blocks the air in low layers, preventing the entry of disturbances while gradually warming it.
Posted on July 1 at 7:59 p.m. AFP
