The “heat pump” created by ex-hurricane Danielle subjected France to high temperatures, especially in the Southwest. Multiple monthly records were largely exceeded.
We are suffocating again this Monday, September 12 in several cities in France. This feather of heat, linked to the action of the ex-storm Danielle, gave the French the feeling of a return to the past of a month, when the thermometer was blazing in the heart of summer. A very real sensation in the end since many monthly temperature records have been easily exceeded according to Météo France.
It was expected, it is in the South-West that the mercury has risen the most: 39.1°C were recorded in Mont-de-Marsan, while the previous record dated September 12 was 37.1°C. In Dax, 39°C was recorded (38°C in 2016); In Pau, we endured 38.9°C (36.3°C in 1970); in Sauternes in Gironde, 38.1°C was reached (37°C in 2016).
ud83dudd3bBiscarrosse (40): 37.4°C (36.5°C on 06/09/2021)
ud83dudd3bTarbes (65): 37.2°C (35.8°C on 09/16/1964)
ud83dudd3bBrive (19): 36.6°C (35.9°C on 03/09/2005)
ud83dudd3bAlbi (81): 36.5°C (36.4°C on 03/09/2005)— Meteo-France (@meteofrance) September 12, 2022
The heat peak recorded concerned Bégaar, in the Landes : 40,1°Ci.e. 2.6° more than the previous record for one day in September, dating from… this Sunday, September 11.
[#chaleur] It is over 40°C in France in September!
40.1°C in Begaar in the Landes! We will remember many monthly + representative records between 37-40°C. After 5 months of excess, the records are still falling one after the other.
It’s completely??? ! How far ? pic.twitter.com/7UUZrbVFl0— Dr. Serge Zaka (Dr. Zarge) (@SergeZaka) September 12, 2022
In the Occitanie region, we broke a 58-year-old record: at Tarbeshe did 37,2° this Monday, the maximum temperature recorded for a month of September dating until then from 1964 (35.8°). To bleachhe also did 36,5°Ca tenth of a degree above the previous record of 2005. In Villefranche-de-Rouergue, it was 36.°C (against 35.4°C in September 2005).
In other regions, temperatures also reached unprecedented levels: 36°C in Tulle, 35.1°C in Nantes, 34.3°C in Limoges and 33.4°C in Saint-Nazaire.