Heatwave: Orange vigilance extended to 12 new departments

forecasts A total of 19 departments are placed on orange alert and 12 on yellow

12 new departments are on heatwave orange vigilance. — CHRISTIAN BELLAVIA/SIPA

Vigilance is required this Thursday between the center and the east of the country. Twelve new departments have been placed on heatwave orange vigilance this Thursday afternoon, in addition to the seven placed on alert this Thursday morning. The departments concerned by orange vigilance are as follows: Loire, Haute-Loire, Ain, Isère, Rhône, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Allier, Cantal, Puy-de-Dôme, Doubs, Jura, Saône-et-Loire, Corrèze, Gers, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn and Tarn- et-Garonne.

12 other departments have gone into heat wave yellow vigilance:  Ariège, Dordogne, Landes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Vaucluse, Nèvre, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Haute-Saône, Territoire de Belfort and Cher.

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has also decided, in the face of the heat wave, to activate an interministerial crisis unit which will be held on Thursday in Paris. 5 p.m., said Matignon àgrave; AFP.

Until’à 37 degrees on the Lyonnais

This Thursday, thunderstorms will break out from Auvergne towards Burgundy, from Lorraine to Champagne-Ardenne. They will concern Alsace and Lorraine in the morning and then in the afternoon will extend as far as Ile-de-France. They will be able to give substantial accumulations of precipitation and good gusts of wind. The south-eastern quarter of the country as well as Corsica will benefit from generous sunshine throughout the day. But stormy showers of diurnal evolution could break out along the Italian border.

Across the rest of the country, after the dissipation of the morning grayness on the Italian side the Gulf of Lion, the Channel coast or the Aquitaine coast, the day will take place under a clear sky; overall. The sky will cloud over from the west at the end of the day, announcing the arrival of a new deterioration by Brittany during the following night.

The minimums s’ will range from 15 to 20 degrees from the Channel coast to the south-west, they will be around 20 to 60 degrees. 22 on the Lyonnais, the Mediterranean shore as well as in Corsica. The maximums will reach 25 & 30 degrees on the northern third of the country, 30 to 35 further south with peaks at; 36 or 37 on the Lyonnais, the Toulouse region, Provence.