US EditionLive. Heat: the 40°c Bar Crossed in the Red Departments, Record Beats
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Fourteen departments are placed in hot red alert on Tuesday, August 12, and two thirds of the country are in orange alert. Temperature records have been beaten in the southwest.
On Monday, August 11, dozens of cities exceeded the 40°C mark. Before 1980, this symbolic threshold was crossed in metropolitan France once every six years. Since the 2000s, this has happened on average sixteen times a year.
More than 41 °C in the Landes or Gironde... The new heat wave has already dropped the monthly temperature record in Bordeaux this Monday.
With temperatures "very frequently higher" at 40 degrees, the heat wave that has been coming down for several days on the Hexagon is intensifying this Monday, especially in the Southwest. Follow live the evolution of the situation.
Twelve departments in southwestern France are on hot red alert on Monday, August 11. Temperatures will exceed 40°C. All the south half of the country suffoque.
From Charente-Maritime to Aude are announced maximum temperatures "very frequently above 40°C", with "locally" peaks at 42°C, according to the latest bulletin of Météo-France. The Weather Channel also places 16 departments on red alert.
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