It’s hot. Very, very hot. And heat records are falling one after the other throughout France. A small town even exceeded 44 degrees. But the national record remains to be beaten…
How long will we suffer from this heatwave? As the 40 degree days continue, temperatures will only start to drop in a few days. In the meantime, France is reading the meters and several cities have set new records during this heat wave.
In this month of June, the weather is freaking out and it’s hot in the t-shirts, in the swimsuits… Among the new absolute records, we can cite the 43.3°C recorded on June 24 in the commune of Le Louroux (Indre-et-Loire) or the 42.8°C in Jouy-le-Potier (Loiret). But it’s “nothing” compared to this small town where the thermometer climbed to… 44.3°C! Where? In Pissos, in the Landes. It was the Météo-France station which made the observation, during the day of June 23, between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
As pointed out This is New Aquitaine“never before had such a temperature been recorded in the Landes (…) This is an absolute temperature record in the department.“Moreover, Pissos even beat its own record since, in 2022, the city already showed 43.4 degrees. However, the national record remains to be beaten… Indeed, a small town in France holds the historical heat record. In 2019, Vérargues, a commune in Hérault, in Occitanie, reached a temperature recorded at 46°C.
To fully understand what such a temperature represents, know that if your car is parked and faces an outside temperature of 46 degrees, then the bodywork can easily rise to 70°C or 80°C. At this temperature, on the hood, you can actually cook a fried egg!
What will happen next in terms of weather? “Friday, the weather remains scorching. Cloudy passages circulate over the northern half (…) Thunderstorms are sometimes strong over the Alpine massif. A slight cooling of temperatures begins on the Atlantic coast“, specifies Météo-France.
However, weather experts add that “the maximums remain abnormally hot over a large part of the country, with still 38 to 41 degrees from Limousin to the Center, Ile-de-France and Burgundy.” In summary: we drink water, we stay cool and we get news from our most fragile loved ones!
