A still very hot day this Thursday, the orange heat wave vigilance maintained in several departments of Occitania

The Southwest remains one of the regions of France where it will be the hottest this Thursday August 4th. The night from Wednesday to Thursday was particularly hot. Météo France records temperatures of 30 degrees at midnight. Several departments of Occitania are kept in heat wave orange vigilance.

Temperatures remain very high this Thursday, August 4 in the Southwest after a particularly hot night: 30° recorded around midnight in several cities in the region. Temperatures around 32 to 36° will reach 37 in Toulouse, 38 in Auch, Albi or Montauban, 39 in Cahors.

Throughout the territory, 26 departments are maintained in vigilance orange at the heat wave. In Occitania, Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne, Tarn, Haute-Garonne and Gard are concerned.

“On the southern third, the gray weather observed this morning around the Gulf of Lion and south of the Garonne is gradually regressing towards the seaside, foresees Meteo France. They give way to a sunny or slightly cloudy sky in the plain“. The station announces thunderstorms this afternoon on the Pyrenees chain.

Good news for Friday, Météo France predicts that the highest temperatures will decrease and will be confined between Provence and Rhône-Alpes.

In addition, all departments in France are affected by one of the four alert levels of the “drought plan”: “vigilance”, “alert”, “enhanced alert” and “crisis threshold”. Propulvia publishes a map of the decrees taken in all the departments of France which reports on the crisis.

27% of the rivers observed in July by the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) were dry. Soil drought reaches unprecedented level. “Since July 17, it is the most severe ever recorded, beating that of 1976“, notes Météo France. Consequences: increased risk of fire and agricultural production undermined.

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