After a lull of a few days, a new heat wave is looming for next week. It will be the third of the year and the 48e since 1947! Towards a summer of all records in France.
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The heat has settled continuously in France and part of Europe since May and seems to no longer want to leave the region. This mid-week is marked by an appreciable break in temperatures, both in the north and in the south. The drop is less obvious in the southeast: the departments in this area are just 1 to 2°C below the heat wave thresholds for 2 to 3 days, and the feeling therefore remains very hot.
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A new anticyclonic blockage, a priori lasting, will set up this weekend and temperatures will start to rise again. They will reach 35 to 37°C around the Mediterranean, more than 30°C in the southwest, and 26 to 30°C in the north. Meteo France specifies that a signal for a new heat wave seems to appear from the beginning of next week: it is still too early to be precise concerning the intensity of the heat and its duration, but again non-standard temperatures are already expected for the south-east. If the event is confirmed, it would therefore be a third heat wave (or even a heat wave) in three months: after that of june, July’sthe month of August could also be marked by a period of exceptional heat, a rare and exceptional situation since the beginning of the records weather report.
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