Heat wave: heat records are falling one after the other, are you concerned?

Never seen ! The current heat wave does not bode well. Besides, temperature records fall one after the other this Monday, July 18, according to Meteo France. Being one of the hottest days in history in France, especially in the West and South-West, this Monday July 18, the maximum temperature will be above 30°C in the shade everywhere! The first temperature record is in Brest, Brittany with a high temperature at 38.6°Caccording Meteo France at France Blue Breizh Izel. The record of July 12, 1949 with 35.2°C is therefore beaten. Another bad news, the temperature won’t stop rising in the region, according to forecasters.

Other records: 36.2°C at Lanvéoc, 37.7°C in Sibiril and 35.3°C in the Crozon peninsula, in Camaret-sur-Mer. In this part, the record was 33.4°C, in 2003. Even in Ouessant who is “the ultimate low altitude place”, according to Gaëtan Heymes, forecaster for Météo France, the temperature rose to 30°C. On the Atlantic coast, the absolute record was also beaten in Nantes with 41°Cat 4 p.m., this Monday, July 18, according to France Blue Loire Ocean.

“In some areas of the Southwest, it will be a heat apocalypse”

The records continue with 41.7°C in Biscarosse. Once again, Météo France points out that maximum temperatures have not yet been reached. Other places in Deux-Sèvres are also subject to these records such as in Niort with 40.4°C whose previous record was 40.1°C last June, announces France Blue Poitou.

Meteo France go further with forecasts of peaks at 44°C in places with “scorching night” in some areas of the Southwest. According to the meteorological institute, in the Landes, for example, the Landes forest will not be around not less than 42°C. Information to be confirmed at 8 p.m., according to the institute. In addition, Meteo France reveals that the minimum temperatures have also soared as in Nice with 27.7°C, the July 2019 record of which was 26.6°C.