This is another record for the Côte d’Azur. Since the first statistics compiled by Météo France in 1947, never has such a hot start to summer been recorded in the region.
The first half of this summer 2022 is definitely breaking all records. Whereas 69 departments are on orange heat wave vigilance, and 15 on red vigilancethis afternoon of July 18, the Paca region has seen temperatures soar to new records in recent days.
Over the period from June 1 to July 15the services of Météo France are formal, they are recording the hottest start to summer ever observed.
When we look at it in detail, the statistics of Météo France leave no doubt about this period.
These show a little more than 3°C than normal for the season. This is more than during the heat wave of 2003. A disastrous summer which had seen nearly 20,000 people succumb to the effects of the heat as indicated the European heatwave study.
This statistical gap has also widened over the past 10 years.
In 2012, the difference between the seasonal norms and the temperatures observed at the beginning of this summer flirted with 0.8°C.
In 2015, 2017 and 2019, an upward curve took hold, approaching a 2°C difference with seasonal norms.
This trend is also confirmed on the Isle of Beauty. In Corsica, the difference between seasonal norms and theThe temperatures observed over these first weeks of summer amounted to nearly 3.5°C – still above the values posted in 2003.
The South-East quarter is far from living up to its reputation as the hottest place. The Gironde or Brittany, to name only these two regions, are breaking one by one the heat records that we thought were beyond the reach of these territories.
Thus, since this same beginning of meteorological summer, Météo France has counted 39 days above normal.
This Monday afternoon around 3 p.m. many absolute records were equaled, even beaten. Nantes counted 40.5°C, Niort posted 40.3°C, and Biscarosse, on the Mediterranean arc, 41.7°C… all of this, while these readings were not taken at times when the maximums were expected.
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