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Heat: a New Day of Records in France

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This Thursday, August 13, was the hottest day of the summer of 2026, with a record of 42 °C in Châteaumeillant, in the Cher. All the techniques were good to try to find some freshness. With a temperature of 12 °C above the normal season, even a shopping afternoon turns into a endurance test. Tomorrow's day will be slightly less hot than today, but it will be necessary to wait until the beginning of next week to find milder temperatures. (Weather…

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14 temperature records for one month of August were beaten in the region this Thursday, 13 August, at the peak of the fifth heat wave that has affected France since May.

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This Thursday, August 13, was the hottest day of the summer of 2026, with a record of 42 °C in Châteaumeillant, in the Cher. All the techniques were good to try to find some freshness. With a temperature of 12 °C above the normal season, even a shopping afternoon turns into a endurance test. Tomorrow's day will be slightly less hot than today, but it will be necessary to wait until the beginning of next week to find milder temperatures. (Weather…

The country is still suffocating before a lull announced by the north-west. While the temperatures are falling, the exhausted firefighters are pulling the bell... Read more The furnace releases its embrace, but the fires do not leave any respite appeared first on Le Singulier.

Forest fires are raging again in different regions of France. The country is struggling with a persistent heat wave. On Thursday the temperatures climbed to over 42 degrees.

·Zürich, Switzerland
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France is in its third week of a heatwave that began on July 28. An orange alert level and a high risk of fires have been declared in 80 departments. The highest temperature was recorded today in the village of Châteaumeillant in the Cher department in central France, where 42...

·Bratislava, Slovakia
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France and Spain face an extreme risk of new forest fires while a heat wave raises temperatures to 42 °C

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Independent Español broke the news on Thursday, August 13, 2026.
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