The music festival promises to be burning. The heat wave culminates on Saturday June 21 on the whole of France, with 16 departments still placed in orange heat wave, especially in the west, where temperatures should exceed 35 ° C for the second day in a row.
The outbreak of the thermometer recorded Friday afternoon on a large west facade will further increase, according to the forecasts of Météo-France, which announces temperatures “Everywhere greater than 30 ° C in the interior of the country”. They should even reach between 35 ° C and 38 ° C in the interior of Brittany and in the Pays de la Loire, and up to 39 ° C in Poitou-Charentes and in the Lauragais, near Toulouse.
The high temperatures will extend north of the Loire to the Parisian basin and east, but also on the other side of the English Channel, in England.
If the orange heat wave is maintained from the Channel to the Charentes and the Morbihan at Indre-et-Loire, as well as in the Rhône and Isère, for the whole day of Saturday, the clouds and sometimes waves will appear in certain regions in the afternoon.
About sixty other departments were placed in a heat wave yellow for the day on Saturday, the hottest of the week, and six for thunderstorms.
A “light refreshment” planned for the evening
According to Jérôme Lecou, forecaster of Météo-France, “We will start to have a slight refreshment” Saturday night “With an outing of vigilance on Sunday” and heat cantoned on Monday “Rather to southern regions”.
Pending the end of this early heat episode, a number of cities have announced that they would leave the parks and gardens open all night until Sunday, to allow residents to cool off, like Tours and Rennes.
The Gironde was on yellow vigilance on Friday, but it was still 36 ° C around 7 p.m. in Bordeaux, where several tens of thousands of visitors are expected until Sunday for the Bordeaux festival celebrates wine. In the afternoon, the participants had gripped in the shade of the trees and parasols, avoiding as much as possible the quays of overheated stone from the Garonne.
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Under a blazing sun, with unusually hot night temperatures, schools, retirement homes, communities and businesses must adapt.
In Toulouse, pedestrians were fleeing heat, especially Place du Capitol, where large shaders allow, depending on the town hall, to reduce heat by 5 ° C on average.
EDF anticipates possible production decreases on the Bugey nuclear power plant (AIN) next week, due to the high temperatures of the Rhône, which cools the installation.
Ozone pollution
Several departments issued alerts concerning ozone pollution on Saturday, notably in Ile-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Occitanie. In Lorient (Morbihan), the agglomeration decided free public transport and the prefecture decreed the lowering at 90 km/h from the speed on the national roads of Morbihan from Friday 8 p.m.
This is the fiftieth heat wave listed by Météo-France since 1947 and among one of the earliest. “Twenty-five were observed between 1947 and 2010” et “25 already between 2011 and 2025”which “Watch acceleration” Frequency on a background of climate change, notes Loriane Baté, weather climatologist.
Metropolitan France has already warmed at least 1.7 ° C compared to the pre -industrial era, before the massive combustion of coal, oil and gas, and the public authorities are preparing for a warming of 4 ° C by the end of the century.
Global warming makes heat waves earlier and late, more frequent, longer and more intense.
