An intense heat is going to hit a large part of France for several days.
Meteo France has placed Thursday in vigilance orange heat wave of 45 departments, located on a wide band ranging from southwest to Hauts-de-France, while an intense heat is going to hit a large part of France for several days.
A “heat spike very intense” will first touch on Friday, the regions of the South-West to the pays-de-la-Loire, “extending by one episode heatwave lasting over a great part of France, marked notably by warm nights and even scorching,” said Météo France.
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“This episode heatwave will be long-lasting”
Thursday afternoon, temperatures exceeded 35°C in the paris area and on the south-west quarter, barely a week after a heat wave intense but short, which has hit a part of France.
But the mercury will still climb sharply Friday, with highs in “37°to 40 ° C, very locally 41°C to 42°C, Country of the Loire in the Poitou-Charentes to Aquitaine and a large part of Occitania, approaching probably of the records in places”.
Even if a decline is expected on Saturday on the west and south-west, “this episode heatwave will be sustainable”, according to Météo France, waiting for a temperature drop that in the middle of the next week.
However, the intensity of this episode (peak maximum) “will advertise less than in 2019 and 2003, and its duration less than that of 2003,” said the organization’s forecast.
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