Météo France has placed the Côte-d’Or on orange alert for the heat wave since Tuesday July 19 at noon.
Updated: orange vigilance for heat waves will end this Wednesday at 6 a.m. but yellow vigilance for thunderstorms begins at 9 p.m. on Tuesday.
Peak of intense heat requiring special vigilance, especially for sensitive or exposed people.
Current situation
At 3 p.m., temperatures are already very high, generally between 36 and 40°C:
39.1°C in Troyes, 38.1°C in Verdun, 37.7°C in Nancy, 38.7°C in Auxerre, 37°C in Besançon, 36.8°C in Metz, 36.3° C in Strasbourg.
Planned development
Temperatures will continue to rise at the end of the afternoon to reach their maximum around 6 p.m.
Temperatures expected this afternoon will generally reach 37 to 39 degrees.
In Champagne, Yonne, the plain of the Ardennes, the Meuse, the thermometer will sometimes reach 40 or 41 degrees locally.
These temperatures will approach but are generally not expected to reach the all-time temperature records set in July 2019.
Although thunderstorms can break out overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday and a slightly cooler air mass arrives in our regions, the temperature will drop quite a bit initially with minimum temperatures Wednesday at daybreak again. very high. These will be between 17 and 20 degrees between the west of Burgundy and Champagne-Ardenne, and rather 20 to 22 degrees between the Val de Saône, Franche-Comté, Lorraine and Alsace.
We will have to wait until Wednesday to see a real drop in temperatures compared to the day before. If they will no longer exceed 30 degrees between the west of Burgundy, Champagne-Ardenne and the Meuse, the temperatures should however remain between 30 and 32 degrees between the Val de Saône, Franche-Comté and the east of Lorraine.
In Alsace, the high heat continues, reaching 33 to 36 degrees in the Rhine plain.
In the night from Wednesday to Thursday the minimum temperatures should drop below 20 degrees over the whole of the northeast.
Communiqué
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