Of the all-time temperature records were beaten again on Thursday August 24 in the southern part of France, after a day on Wednesday which had already seen records fall in Toulouse, Albi or Carcassonne.
After Toulouse yesterday, a second major metropolis broke its absolute temperature record. He did 41.4°C in Lyon this afternoondata that erases from the shelves the 40.5°C heat wave of 2003 (August 13).
Record amplified to 41.4°C (provisional), almost a degree higher than the old record.
After #Toulouse here, #Lyon is the second major French metropolis to rewrite its climatology. #heat wavehttps://t.co/51qdJ43qlOpic.twitter.com/T1RD4q0Tom— Keraunos (@KeraunosObs) August 24, 2023
Shovel of temperature records in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Many other cities broke their absolute record today: at 5 p.m., we measured 42.5°C in Montauban et 42.4°C in Agen (previous records were from… yesterday), 41.4°C in Roanne, 41.2°C in Ambérieu-en-Bugey (Ain), 40.2°C in Chambery, 39.9°C in Tarbesor 39.2°C in Saint-Girons (Ariège).
Other cities broke temperature records for the month of August, such as Saint-Etienne (40.9°C) or Clermont-Ferrand (40,4°C), Bagneres-de-Luchon (38.9°C) or Le Puy (37°C).
He also did very hot in the mountains with remarkable and even sometimes record values: in Savoie at Val Cenis (34.9°C), in the Hautes-Pyrénées at Gavarnie (32.4°C), in Haute-Savoie at Grand-Bornand (29.9° C), or in Isère at L’Alpe-d’Huez (29.7°C).
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