From Millau to Dinard, nine municipalities break temperature records for the month of June – archyde

From Millau in Aveyron to Dinard in Ille-et-Vilaine, via Cognac in Charente, nine municipalities broke their monthly temperature record and two others equaled it this Friday, announced Météo France. example climbed to 37.3°C in Millau, beating the previous record of June 2019. In Carcassonne (Aude), the mercury rose to 40.4°C, against 39.8°C on June 21, 2003. 35.5 °C were recorded in Dinard, against 33.8 °C in June 2019. Record also beaten in Cognac and its 38.9 °C this afternoon, against 38.2 °C on June 30, 1952. The other municipalities having exceeded their records for a month of June, according to Météo France, are Narbonne (Aude), Saintes (Charente-Maritime), Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d’Armor), Montaut (Ariège), Quintenic (Côtes-d’Armor) The towns of Bergerac (Dordogne) and Martys (Aude) equaled their record of 38.2°C and 33.5°C respectively. -early bedridden from France, and two additional departments have been placed on red alert, i.e. 14 in total in the southwestern third of the country. In total, 56 departments, from the Paris region to the German border as well as from Brittany to the Lyon region, are on orange alert. Meteo France warns that “Saturday afternoon, the heat will increase further on the southern axis Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes Vendée with therefore rising maximum temperatures”. “All-time highs” could still fall, according to the latest bulletin.