The hot weather should extend Tuesday and Wednesday, warns Météo-France. At the hexagon scale, the peak is expected for Wednesday with maximums often greater than or equal to 35 ° C and tips at 39 ° C.
Le Monde with AFP
Days under 35 to 39 ° C and stifling nights: a new episode of heat wave should touch the south of France Monday 1 er August before heading north, Tuesday and Wednesday . Five departments were placed under orange vigilance in the south of France: Ardèche (07), Drôme (26), Gard (30), Pyrénées-Orientales (66) and Vaucluse (84). These territories should cross a “new scorching episode whose intensity and duration will be less than those of the previous episode”, said Météo-France on Sunday in a bulletin. The other ten departments of the south-eastern quarter of France were placed in yellow alert.
The heat should be felt on Monday morning in the south, with, in the afternoon, temperatures of 35 to 38 ° C in the departments placed in orange alert, and peaks at 39 ° C in the Department of Gard.
The period of high heat should “extend Tuesday and Wednesday in many regions”, to the west and in the Rhône valley, warns Météo-France. At France, the heat peak is expected for Wednesday with maximums often greater than or equal to 35 ° C and points at 39-40 ° C in the southwest. This peak should however be “in short in many departments”, according to Steven Testelin, forecaster in Météo-France, and less hot air could arrive Thursday by the North West.
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Météo France recommends watching over the elderly, people with chronic illness or mental health problems, people who regularly take medication, and isolated people. Dehydration or a heat stroke (fever, hot skin, red and dry, headache, nausea) can also touch athletes and people who work outdoors.
fire in the Gard
A few days after an exceptional heat wave that lasted two weeks, temperatures were raised again on Sunday afternoon from Roussillon to Provence.
In Marseille, Montpellier and Perpignan, 36 ° C was noted, Sunday at 4 p.m., and the temperature reached 38 ° C in Nîmes. In the Gard (30), fueled by the Mistral and the Tramontane, a fire destroyed 200 hectares of pine forest on Sunday evening, and four firefighters were injured, including one seriously. The Gard was placed on Saturday, for the first time of the season, in “extreme danger” level in the Rhodanian Gard area. Another fire broke out at the end of the afternoon about twenty kilometers from Marseille, around the Pennes-Mirabeau.
This multiplication of strong heat episodes is a direct consequence of global warming, according to scientists, greenhouse gas emissions (linked to energy production, transport, industry) increasing to both their intensity, duration and frequency.
Historical dryness
The Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region has experienced its hottest July since 1947. At France, July 2006 has remained warmer. France, on the other hand, knew its driest July since the start of the measures in August 1958, confirmed Météo-France.
Western Europe faced, in July, a historic drought and two waves of heat in just a month, during which ravaging forest fires like Gironde or Greece were triggered.
The Gironde prefecture has announced that the department would again be placed in red vigilance for fire risk, prohibiting the circulation of people and vehicles in the forest between 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. Access to forests is also strictly prohibited in Vaucluse, and in 4 of the 25 massifs of Bouches-du-Rhône.
In the Jura, new water restrictions apply on Monday. The watering of lawns and any green space is prohibited, as is the filling of private pools, or washing vehicles.