The heat has arrived in France, but will it continue in August? The weather forecast has been revised, we finally know what the weather will be like.
After a month of June marked by numerous bad weather conditions, and a first part of July that oscillates between blue skies and gray skies, what will happen in August? Between the Olympic Games period and the start of the August holidays, the sun and heat are more than ever expected, but will they be there?
In its latest trends bulletin for the coming months, released at the end of June, Meteo France forecast in particular for the month of August warmer conditions than seasonal norms, particularly in the south of France and Europe. This heat phenomenon was to be accompanied by fairly dry weather, “50% drier than seasonal norms” for the south of France. While in the north, neither drought nor humidity managed to take over the other.
The latest data, reviewed and recalculated with greater precision by The Weather Channel July 12 seem more moderate. The temperatures forecast in France should remain well above seasonal averages, but the temperature difference will probably not exceed 1°C in August.
Contrary to what was expected, the risk of a heat wave from next month now seems to be averted in the entire northern half of the country, while in the south the heat wave is expected to continue. The weather would thus remain similar to that which we experience in July, that is to say, good weather accompanied by some periods of precipitation in the regions of the northern half.
This changing weather trend in France is due to the passage of the El Nino phenomenon, present in the Pacific Ocean, as well as the La Nina phenomenon which “designates a cyclical cooling of surface waters in the Pacific Ocean” and “tends to cool the global climate”, explains The Weather Channel. She adds that its arrival “could cause two types of summer in Western Europe: either quite disturbed, or on the contrary very hot and very dry like in 2019”.
Good news therefore for the athletes and spectators of the Olympic Games who should enjoy, in August, beautiful sunshine and warm but not scorching weather, at least in Lille, Paris or Nantes. For holidaymakers, it is mainly in the south-east that they will have to be. In the event of high heat in the departments of the Mediterranean basin, the modalities of the sporting events will certainly be modified.