From Tuesday, temperatures could reach 36 ° C in a western and southern part of the country, or even 38 ° C in the Rhône valley.
Le Monde
A new heat wave is expected in France, Météo-France alert , Monday, July 11, a month after the week of great heat of the month of June. Temperatures are generally increasing on Monday. The 30 ° C are exceeded in a good part of the country, with points at 37 ° C or even 38 ° C in certain areas of the southwest.
Tuesday Tuesday, the temperature increase will continue. They will reach 34 ° C at 36 ° C “on a good western and southern part of the country”, up to 36 ° C at 38 ° C from Charentes in the southwest and at the Rhône valley. These very strong heat should extend to the center of the country on Wednesday.
“From Thursday to Sunday, temperatures [will remain] at a very high level, but they will [mark], however, a slight and temporary drop in the north of the country on Thursday and Friday,” said Météo-France. The meteorology department believes that “this hot episode should therefore evolve towards a heat wave”. Details are coming in the coming days.
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The multiplication of heat waves is a direct consequence of global warming, explain scientists, greenhouse gas emissions increasing both the intensity, duration and frequency of these phenomena.
France has known forty-four waves of heat since 1947. “Over the past thirty-five years, they have been three times more numerous than in the previous thirty-five years. The number of days [concerned by a wave ] Heat has been multiplied by nine, “recalls Météo-France.
Spain and Portugal affected
Temperatures above 40 ° C made the Iberian Peninsula were once again suffocated on Monday, where the thermometer will climb again in the coming days, less than a month after the last extreme heat wave. According to the Spanish meteorological agency, the AEMET, the mercury should climb up to 42 ° C in Estremadure (southwest) and up to 41 ° C in Andalusia (South). The expected maximums should also exceed 35 ° C in the northwest of the country, where it is generally much less hot.
In Portugal, the thermometer climbed up to 44 ° C in certain areas during the weekend of July 9 and 10, promoting fires, the most important of which, in the commune of Ourém (center), A been circumscribed Monday.