Heatwave: four absolute temperature records broken on Monday in New Aquitaine – France 24

On the same subject Repeated heat waves are indeed due to global warming International scientists explain that the heat waves recorded all over the world are indeed the result of global warming, caused by human activity. These phenomena, which will increase in the future, should have serious consequences for Man At 5 p.m., four municipalities had recorded absolute temperature records, recorded by Météo-France. Concretely, this means that it has never been so hot, in any month since the forecaster took temperature readings. “Record pulverized” on the island of OléronIn Cazaux (Gironde), the town where three houses and two restaurants were destroyed by the fire in La Teste-de-Buch, the thermometer reached 42.4°C. The last recorded record was 42.0°C during the heat wave of summer 2003. Further south, in the Landes, another record was beaten in Biscarrosse, with 42.4°C at 5 p.m. It had already been so hot in the town in June 2022, at the time of a previous heat wave. In La Rochelle, 40.9°C were recorded, against 40.5°C for the previous peak in 2019. Still in Charente-Maritime, “record pulverized” in Chassiron, on the tip of the island of Oléron, comments Laurent Feuillatre, forecaster at Météo-France Bordeaux: 37.3 ° C, were recorded, while the previous maximum was 35.9°C in 2003. Monthly temperature records were also broken in the region. In Royan, in particular, with 39.1°C, it had never been so hot for the month of July (the last heat peak being 38.3°C in July 2020). Extreme temperatures were recorded in the region at 5 p.m. In Bordeaux, it was 41.3°C, in Angoulême, 39.8°C, in Biarritz, 39.7°C, 39.5°C in Périgueux, 39.8°C in Mont-de-Marsan and 39 0.0°C in Agen. During the night from Monday to Tuesday, the temperatures announced were to be still high, rarely below 22°C, marked by cloud cover, which has a “cover effect” in the Aquitaine sky and prevents the air of refreshing, specifies the forecaster.