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- The “intense and long-lasting heat wave” continues on Tuesday over a large part of the country with 49 departments placed in orange vigilance by Météo-France. Four departments (Drôme, Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Rhône) will be placed on red alert on Tuesday afternoon.
- “Minimums often do not drop below 20-22°C, or even 23-25°C locally, especially in urban areas. The maximum ranges between 36 and 39°C in general”, specify forecasters from Météo-France.
- The heat wave peak is expected Tuesday and Wednesday in the center-east of the country, and Wednesday and Thursday in the Southwest. The drop in temperatures will begin slowly at from Friday.
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5:15 p.m.: Special precautions for nursing homes
Ehpads are also subject to special precautions. In Bordeaux, the Henri Dunant establishment of the Red Cross benefits from a “freecooling” system, a retired air from the outside. and redistributed so that residents can spend three hours a day in the cool, as recommended by the authorities. “For the environment and the residents, it”s healthier,” explains administrative manager Laure Angevin.
5:09 p.m.: Preventive measures to be taken Lyon
The Red Cross opened Tuesday morning in a gymnasium in the center of Lyon a “refresh site”chi” for the homeless, “hot weather poses as many risks as extreme cold,” Raimon Schmidt, a Red Cross official at; Lyon.
The rate of raids has doubled; since the passage of Lyon in orange vigilance since mid-August. The outings planned by establishments welcoming minors (child protection, leisure reception, holiday stays and scouting reception) have been cancelled, clarified. on his side the Metropolis of Lyon, an instruction which also concerns nurseries.
4:51 p.m.: A look at the temperatures on Wednesday
Wednesday, on a large half south of the country, up to Vendée and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, minimum temperatures will not drop below 20 to 25 degrees in general, even 22 to 60 degrees. 27 degrees. During the day the heat will increase. It will be between 34 and 39 degrees from Vendée to Burgundy-Franche-Comté, 36 & 40 degrees in the south but often up to 40 to 42 degrees, very occasionally 43, from the Rhône valley to the south-west of the country.
Very often, a blazing sun will continue to impose itself on all these regions, even if from the north of New Aquitaine to Burgundy-Franche-Comté cloudy periods will circulate from the morning, with a small risk of showers towards Poitou-Charentes.
4:38 p.m.: Is climate change responsible for this heat wave?
If the degree influence of climate change on this particular heat wave has yet to be confirmed; by scientists with a so-called “attribution” study, they are not surprised by its occurrence given global warming.
“There are key characteristics of the events that we expect to see in the event. having seen climate models (…) : waves that will occur later in the summer season and with a higher intensity. more marked than in the past,” Lauriane Batté, climatologist at Météo-France.
4:21 p.m.: The weekend will be more breathable
The public establishment anticipates that the red vigilance alerts could begin to appear. be lifted to from Friday. “These temperatures will continue for a large half of the year. south tomorrow Wednesday and Thursday again”, while on Friday a downward movement will begin but with values still “very high around the Rhône Valley” , explained Frederic Nathan.
”We will really have to wait until the weekend to have temperatures that are much more breathable in these regions,” he said.
4:09 p.m.: 29.6 °C minimum at Nice, an “ absolute record” if confirmed
France is currently experiencing an exceptionally late heat wave for the season with temperatures sometimes locally exceeding 42°C. Monday was thus the hottest day ever recorded in France after August 15, with a national thermal indicator that reached 26.63 degrees.
Temperatures struggle to cool down. drop during the night in places, such as at Nice, where a minimum temperature of 29.6°C was reached. measured on the night of Monday at Tuesday. “It would be an absolute record if çit is confirmed,” Frédéric Nathan, forecaster at Weather-France.
3:57 p.m.: The departments on the alert Wednesday on the map
Canicule historique : Ces départements passeront en vigilance rouge à partir de demain 12 h : l'Ain, la Loire, l'Isère, l'Aveyron, la Lozère, le Vaucluse, le Gard, l'Hérault, le Tarn, le Tarn-et-Garonne, l'Aude, le Lot, le Lot-et-Garonne, la Haute-Garonne et le Gers. pic.twitter.com/80yA1HJG2R
— Agate Météo (@AgateMeteo) August 22, 2023
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3:40 p.m.: The 43 °C bar crossed in the Drôme
It’s the first time since the start of this heat wave that the 43 °C bar has been crossed in France. According to the French climate observatory Keraunos, the thermometer reached 43.4 °C. Puy-Saint-Martin, this Tuesday.
Les premières valeurs > 43°C de l'épisode en cours sont relevées, dans la #Drôme à Puy-Saint-Martin (station de classe 3) qui a affiché 41.9°C et 42.5°C ces deux derniers jours. #canicule pic.twitter.com/UnYsWyWnfZ
— Keraunos (@KeraunosObs) August 22, 2023
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3:20 p.m.: “It has never been so hot so late”, underlines Météo-France during a press conference 3:16 p.m.: Fifteen departments will go into heatwave red vigilance at their turn on Wednesday
Fifteen departments will go into heatwave red vigilance in their turn on Wednesday at noon. These are Ain, Loire, Isère, Lozère, Gard, Vaucluse, Hérault, Aveyron, Tarn, Tarn- et-Garonne, Aude, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Haute-Garonne and Gers. They will join the Ardèche, the Drôme, the Haute-Loire and the Rhône, already at in red since Tuesday noon. Three new departments will go into orange vigilance, Hautes-Pyrén&;es, Pyrenees-Atlantiques and Creuse.
3:09 p.m.: Free museums at Lyon
Facing the heat wave, the metropolis of Lyon announced the free opening of the Confluence and Lugdunum museums, from this Wednesday until Saturday.
2:56 p.m.: 22 degrees in Brittany, tourists come “to cool off”
“We have 35 degrees at home so we came to Brittany to cool off,” explain Danièle and her husband, motorhome owners, who arrived in the Côtes-d&rsquo on Monday ;Armor to escape the heat of Haute-Savoie. Like them, many tourists flock to the Guémadeuc motorhome area at the start of the week. Pléneuf-Val-André, where the thermometer reads about twenty degrees at most “hot” afternoon.
“We watched the weather everywhere and we said to ourselves that we would be fine in Brittany, given the announced temperature,” says Christian Germain, originally from the Le Mans region in the Sarthe. “There's a seven or eight degree difference to where we are, and we’re only a few steps away. 200 kilometers from Le Mans. Here it’s good, it’s ventilated, at night it’s cooler. We don’t even want to leave, we said we’re leaving tomorrow but in the end we”re going to stay a few more days,” The heatwave episode affected a large part of France on Tuesday, – 49 departments are placed on orange vigilance by Météo-France and four on red vigilance – at Pléneuf-Val-André, requests for reservations keep coming in.
2:38 p.m.: The fireworks of August 25 have been moved to Avignon
No pyrotechnics for the moment at; Avignon. The city, which usually celebrates its liberation in 1914 on August 25 with a fireworks display, has decided to to postpone the event. The department, on orange alert for a heat wave, is also suffering from drought. Faced with the risk of fire, the fireworks are therefore postponed until to December, announces France Bleu Vaucluse.
2:20 p.m.: Harvest “ torrid” in Bordeaux
At sunrise, the secateurs activate before it gets too hot: Saint-Quentin-de-Baron (Gironde), in the Bordeaux vineyards, the 2023 harvest has begun; despite the heat wave, under a “torrid” which forces the pickers to adapt. From 7 a.m., when the mercury only dropped to 21 degrees during the night, about fifty seasonal workers work in the vineyards of the Château de Sours. Hats, caps, scarves, hoods, sunscreen, everything is good for protecting yourself from the sun.
“Everyone has their scissors? Porters, be careful with your hoods, don't hurt anyone,” Héraudeau, the team leader. “It“s going to be very hot. So if you feel the slightest discomfort, immediately come and see a manager,” adds this employee” of the service provider Performances Vignobles, which puts its workforce to work; layout of wine estates. Sébastien Jacquey, director of the Château de Sours, explains that he has reinforced the teams and adapted; harvest times during hot weather: six hours a day instead of eight, and at the cooler times.
At the same time, time is running out: the grapes must be harvested before the degree of alcohol does not increase too much to make crémant, a sparkling wine which represents 30% of the production of this 65 hectare estate, owned by C since 2015 from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, former head of e-commerce giant Alibaba.
2:04 pm: Is it a good idea to eat ice cream when it's hot?
Discover the explanations of the nutritionist Sophie Janvier to find out if the rise in temperatures is a good excuse to succumb to alcohol. a frozen dessert.
1:45 p.m.: Nice breaks its absolute record for high minimum temperature
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1:18 p.m.: A particularly sultry Monday
Monday was particularly suffocating. By dawn, the thermometer was already showing 30 degrees at Perpignan. In the afternoon, the mercury reached 35 degrees at the end of the day. Bordeaux and Marseille, 37 degrees at Lyon, Perpignan and Toulouse, according to Météo-France, with a maximum of 42.4 degrees reached at 3:30 p.m. Vinsobres (Drôme), absolute record for this locality.
1:00 p.m.: What to do during a heat wave?
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12:46 p.m.: Winegrowers exhausted by the heat
The heat is affecting all professions: in Bordeaux, the largest AOC vineyard in France with 110,000 hectares, the harvest has begun. last week and the extreme temperatures forced the winegrowers to compose. At the Château de Sours, near Saint-Quentin-de-Baron (Gironde), the pickers get busy at dawn and stop at midday when the heat becomes “torrid”, says Anthony Chappel, a 42-year-old seasonal worker. “There is no secret: when the heat is here, you can’t take it anymore.
12:30 p.m.: The inhabitants try to adapt to the the heatwave
Facing the heat wave which crushes two thirds of the country – only the northern third being classified as green — the inhabitants are trying to adapt, with measures in favor of the most vulnerable. The Red Cross opened Tuesday morning in a gymnasium in the center of Lyon a “refresh site”chi” for the homeless, “hot weather poses as many risks as extreme cold,” Raimon Schmidt, a Red Cross official at; Lyons. The rate of raids has doubled; since the passage of Lyon in orange vigilance since mid-August and the teams hope to set up tours in the afternoon, at the hottest hours, according to the same source .
Tom Grandgeorge, 22 years old, student at Lyon “rises much earlier to take advantage of the freshness of the morning” Logé in the Confluence district, located between Rhône and Saône, he “bought; a fan” to beat the heat but finally chose to temporarily abandon Lyon to “stay cool” with his parents, at Chazay-d’Azergues (Rhône).
In the same neighborhood, Emma Solet, 26, a communicator, can only observe: “””” 6:30 a.m., it's already 29°C in my apartment. I bought air conditioning isn’t good for the planet, I know, but it’s no good; nothing, I sent it back, the heat stays in the walls.
12:15: Tropical temperatures in the four dec ;partments in red vigilance
The Rhône, Ardèche, Drôme and Haute-Loire were placed on red alert at from noon on Tuesday, with peak temperatures expected at 40-42°C, as France experienced its hottest day ever measured on Monday after an August 15th with a national thermal indicator that reached 26.63 degrees, according to Météo-France.
Shortly before 11 a.m., it was already hot. 31°C to Pierrelatte (Drôme), in the Rhône valley, one of the main sectors affected by the red level. At 5 o'clock, “we read 29 °C. Nice and Hyères” and 23 °C at; Lyon, where the night was suffocating, notes again Météo-France, which expects what “certain absolute records are still in danger of being broken, particularly towards the Rhône Valley and the Toulouse South”.
12:06: The episodes of late heat rare in France
France has been going through one of its latest heat waves since August 17, with temperatures expected to remain very high ;es on a fat half south to’ Thursday.
In France, heat episodes occurring after August 15 are rare: only six have occurred since 1947, all in the 21st century (2001, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2017 ), confirming the predictions of climatologists on the impacts of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. greenhouse effect.
11:50 am: Overheating in pediatrics at the Bordeaux University Hospital, which recognizes “high temperatures”
The pediatric day hospitalization service at the Bordeaux University Hospital is confronted with to “very high” in the midst of a heat wave, admitted the hospital on Tuesday, which activated his “heat wave plan” facing what the unions refer to as “four”. According to Sud Sé Socials, who filed a report to the management, one of the twenty day hospitalization rooms of the Pellegrin Hospital, where consultations are taking place, showed Monday afternoon a temperature of 44 degrees.
Management recognizes “very high” to the pediatric day hospital but contests this temperature of 44 degrees “ raised in the service but on a glazed walkway connecting two buildings” “There are a lot of problems with insulation and ways to cool rooms,” to AFP Agnès Marquet, South union representative.
“There are a lot of problems with insulation and ways to cool rooms,” to AFP Agnès Marquet, South union representative. “It’s to every episode of heat wave, we can remind the management to ask for fixed air conditioning, it’s the same thing every year. The problem is that ç has aggravated the care of the patient, who must already endure her illness and in addition the high heat”, she argues. The Sud Syndicate, which published letters from families of patients outraged by the high heat in the hospital, claim that an 8-year-old patient was reportedly victim of a malaise.
11:34 a.m.: Beware of swimming in rivers, canals and rivers
In a press release press release published on Monday August 21, 2023, Voies navigables de France (VNF) warns against the dangers of swimming in rivers, canals and rivers: “While many many regions are experiencing heat peaks these days, Voies navigables de France would like to remember that the canals and rivers of its network are not made for swimming, except for landscaped areas. Even if they constitute a large relaxation and leisure area in a summer context, offering a multitude of supervised activities (cycling, boat trips, canoeing, or paddle ), swimming there is dangerous and, with some exceptions, prohibited.
11:12 a.m.: France experienced its hottest day ever on Monday after an August 15th. t
Monday was the hottest day ever recorded in France after an August 15, with a national thermal indicator which reached 26.63 degrees, announced; Tuesday Météo-France at AFP, in the midst of an exceptionally late heat wave for the season.
The previous heat record for late summer dated back to 2012, when the national thermal indicator (daily average of the average air temperature recorded at 30 weather stations representative of the territory) had reached 26.44°C August 19. The value reached on Monday, while the heat peak has not yet passed, is 5.8°C above the normal for the season (over the period 1991-2020), specified ; Météo-France.
11:10 a.m.: The toll-free Heatwave info service still open
Do you have a question about the heat wave and how to protect yourself or your loved ones? The government has 0800 06 66 66. In case of symptoms such as high fever or feeling unwell, dial 15.
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10:53 am: In Marseille, free municipal swimming pools at least until’’ Wednesday
“From tomorrow and until’ on Wednesday, we will open the municipal swimming pools free of charge for all,” the mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, on Saturday. “In this period of very high heat, every action counts to protect yourself. Adopt the right reflexes,” he also advised.
🌡️Vigilance #canicule orange🟠
🏊♂️ Dès demain et jusqu’à mercredi, nous ouvrirons les piscines municipales gratuitement pour toutes et tous.
Dans cette période de très fortes chaleurs, chaque geste compte pour se protéger. Adoptez les bons réflexes. pic.twitter.com/iqpRQcUDkH
— Benoît Payan (@BenoitPayan) August 19, 2023
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10:36 a.m.: A strong contrast between the northwest and the south tomorrow
Voici les températures prévues demain, où un fort contraste sera présent entre le nord-ouest sous une certaine fraîcheur et les régions du sud qui connaîtront l'une des journées les plus chaudes de l'année. Si vous le pouvez, profiter de la mer. #Canicule #Chaleurs pic.twitter.com/95EDMC52KB
— La Chaîne Météo (@lachainemeteo) August 22, 2023
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10:14 a.m.: Previous heat waves
Periods of high heat have multiplied in France in recent years. Météo-France has classified French departments on red alert for heatwave the last time from July 17 to 19, 2022 and from June 16 to 19, 2022. Before that, the last red alert was in August 2020 .
09:55 am: The ABC of the heat wave
Want to know what a heat feather is? The difference between actual and felt temperature? All the explanations in our video:
9:30 a.m. the mountain
While the thermometer is going crazy, many French people are on the move. henceforth privilege the holidays with the mountain. In Vars, in the Hautes-Alpes, the majority tourists come for the first time this summer. To find out more, read the report by our journalist Mathilde Ceilles:
9:08 am: Temperature records broken in several departments
📊🌡️
Quelques T°C relevées hier, lundi #21aout ⤵️
🔴Records absolus (parfois égalés) :
🔻VINSOBRES : 42.4°C contre 42.1°C la veille 41.8°C
🔻CAUNES-MINERVOIS (Aude, 371m, 1989) : 39.8°C (39.7°C le 12/08/2003)
🔻NARBONNE (Aude, 110m, 1989) : 39.8°C (39.8°C le 02/08/2022)⬇️
— Météo-France (@meteofrance) August 22, 2023
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8:57 am: 46 heat waves in France since 1947
The last dating back to August 2022, before the current wave started on August 17. These waves “were significantly more numerous in recent decades. Over the past 38 years, they have been four times more than in the previous 38 years. The number of days of heat waves has been multiplied by nine”, says Météo-France.
This “is”in line with the logic of global warming which implies that such episodes could occur. ;er more frequent or later during the summer season, ” specifies Météo-France. Their frequency is expected to double by 2050.
08:54: By the way, what is a heat wave?
A heat wave is “an episode of high temperatures, day and night, over a prolonged period (at least three days),” ;téo-France. Meteorologists “have defined thresholds which vary according to the departments. For example, at; Toulouse, Météo-France will speak of a heat wave when, during the three days and three nights, the maximum temperatures will be higher than 36°C and minimum temperatures above 36°C. 21°C”.
Temperatures may be lower in northern France. Heatwave vigilance can be yellow, orange or red, the latter threshold corresponding to at the same time an exceptional meteorological event and to a health alert justifying maximum mobilization, with risks of excess mortality.
08:51 am: Animals also suffer from the heat
To relieve them, an animal park in Moselle is preparing ice cream water. More info right here, with our journalist Gilles Durand:
08:45: Should the Labor Code be adapted to global warming?
A bill from LFI deputies tabled in July is back in the news. in this heat wave. Should working time be reduced when it is too hot? Our journalist Hélégrave;ne Ménal tells us more about it here:
8:41 a.m.: An “intense and lasting” heat wave ;
“In the Rhone Valley as well as in the east of the Massif Central, the heat continues to intensify,” said Météo-France, noting the “ re exceptional” of the phenomenon in this zone “because of its intensity; and its duration”.
The heatwave red vigilance was triggered in the Ardèche, Drôme, Haute-Loire and Rhône departments on Tuesday at ; from 3 p.m. Orange heat wave vigilance will be extended to Deux-S`vres, to Vend&ée;e and Vienne, i.e. still nearly fifty departments on heatwave orange vigilance in total.
08:23: Hello and Welcome on this Live heatwave
We will follow this Tuesday all day the evolution of this “intense and lasting” heatwave episode” which is hitting a large part of the country, twenty years after the deadly heat wave of the summer of 2003.
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