Temperatures are soaring this week in France, after a very mixed start to August from a meteorological point of view. Blame it on a dome of heat rising from the Maghreb and which is suffocating part of Europe. On Wednesday, the temperature rose to 48.8 degrees in Syracuse, Sicily, a new heat record in Europe. It is even worse for Tunisia, which also broke its heat record, with 50.3 degrees recorded in Kairouan.
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France narrowly escapes this dome of heat. Nevertheless, the thermometer climbs in the south of the country to the Lyon region. MétéoNews recorded 31.4 degrees in Marseille on Thursday at 3 p.m., 34.6 ° C at 5 p.m. in Toulouse or 33.7 degrees in Lyon. On the Ajaccio side, in Corsica, values of 36.9 degrees were reached at the end of the afternoon.
And in Côte-d’Or? Despite “very summer” temperatures, there is no question of a scorching episode, according to Christophe Mertz, meteorologist at MétéoNews. For good reason, in Dijon as in Beaune or Semur-en-Auxois, the maximum was established at 32.2 ° C at the end of the afternoon. And it is in Montbard that it seems to have been the hottest on August 12, 2021 with 32.9 ° C at 6 p.m.
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When do we talk about a heat wave in Côte-d’Or?
We can speak of a scorching episode when the temperatures are particularly high during the day, but also during the night, and this for three days in a row with thresholds that differ according to the departments. In Côte-d’Or, a heat wave occurs when the mercury does not drop below 34 degrees during the day, and 19 degrees at night.
During the night from Thursday to Friday, the mercury dropped to 17.4 ° C in Dijon. The night was therefore not “scorching”.
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Less than 25 degrees next week
The strong heat will not last. An air mass from the British Isles will appear at the start of next week, causing the thermometer to drop quite sharply. We should drop below 25 degrees from Wednesday, according to MétéoNews forecasts.
