In Rennes, the Breton capital, the temperature record for a month of June was exceeded yesterday with 36.9 ° C. The inhabitants of this city renowned for its Clima Clément try to adapt.
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They rush to the water jets from Place Saint-Germain, in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine). Florianne, Angéline and Elisa Martinez spray their legs and their faces. These three sisters spent their Friday, June 17, tracking freshness in air -conditioned merchant galleries or in churches. The discovery of this fountain is a boon while the temperature reaches 36.9 ° C. A record for a month of June in Rennes. Fatalist, Angéline, a student at Sciences Po, notes: “From the nursery school, our parents talk about the heat wave of 2003 as an exceptional event. Heat peaks do not surprise us. We grew up with it. We are the Heat generation. “This Friday, fourteen other departments are in red vigilance on the weather map-France. Ille-et-Vilaine was classified as orange. This is already too much for Florianne Martinez, internal in medicine: “We thought of Brittany spared. Finally, we are now suffering from heat in this region with a temperate climate.”
Sweat beady front, Léa Viitanen Opine. Posted in a corner in its itinerant crêperie stationed in the heart of the market in the popular district of Villejean, the seller takes advantage of the air brewed by two fans. “The heat forces us to adapt our work. Today, we have cooked a stock of pancakes from the start of the market to avoid cooking in tense flows. We limit the rise in temperature in the truck,” describes the pancake, Who fears the time of crowds when all the pancake plates will heat simultaneously.
Ericka Ilinga, 18, passes near the truck and rushes on a neighboring stall to buy watermelon. His two little sisters who accompany him devour a song. “Me, I can’t swallow anything for several days because I am so far from it. Even drinking it is difficult to me, blows the high school student. We are going to go back, close the shutters and restart the fan to protect us from the heat.” The young Woman lives in a perpendicular street, a recent and better isolated building than the large towers of the neighborhood, built in the 1970s, which dominate Villejean. At their foot, the Kennedy slab extends like a macadam roll to the escalators of the metro. Above, some sheltered benches. All were taken by storm. “The municipality has not sufficiently anticipated climate change in its urban reflections, judge Joëlle Guillet, sixties return from the market. The reflections of the layouts of places have until then been very mineral. Today, we must vegetate more for Protect yourself. “
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