Heatwave alert: 16 departments on orange alert, up to 40°C on Sunday… what to expect this weekend ?

For this Saturday, August 10, 2024, sixteen departments are placed on orange alert for heatwaves and thunderstorms and twenty-six on yellow alert. On Sunday, temperatures will reach 40 °C.

The mercury will continue to rise. Maximum temperatures on Saturday will be above  35 °C along the Garonne and Rhône. Languedoc/Roussillon will reach 40 °C. Minimum temperatures will hardly go below 20°C in the Mediterranean and in the Rhône valley.

16 departments on vigilance orange heat wave

While on Friday, six departments in the south of France were on orange alert, today ten more departments are being added to the list of < em>France Weather.

Ain Aude Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-Maritimes Bouches-du-Rhône South Corsica Drome Gard Upper Corsica Haute-Savoie Hérault Isère Pyrenees-Orientales Rhone Savoy Vaucluse

In addition to these sixteen departments on orange vigilance, 26 are placed on yellow vigilance.

Allier Andorra Ardèche Aveyron Cantal Charente Charente-Maritime Corrèze Creuse Deux-Sèvres Dordogne Gironde Gers Hautes-Alpes Haute-Garonne Haute-Loire Haute-Vienne Landes Loire Lot Lot-et-Garonne Puy-de-Dôme Tarn Tarn-et-Garonne Var Vienne

40 °C this Sunday

"The heat will be intense this weekend”, warns The Weather Channel. There will be a heat peak on Sunday, it will be the second of the summer.

A "heat plume" will warm the south of France, temperatures between  35 °C and 40 °C are expected in the Mediterranean hinterland, in New Aquitaine, in Occitanie and in the Rhone Valley.

Temperatures could drop on Sunday evening, depending on the arrival of storms, which will lower temperatures. This could be the case at the end of the weekend for the Atlantic arc, Monday morning for the northwest and Tuesday for the eastern regions, adds La Chaîne Météo.