With 25 ° C exceeded in most regions on May 1ᵉʳ, France is going through an “episode of early warmth”.
In Paris, we exceeded 30 ° C, a first as early in the year for 72 years.
But is it really so exceptional?
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It was the right reflex to have this Thursday, May 1, when temperatures exceeded 25 ° C in most regions: drink water. And yet, we are not in the middle of summer and it is barely 11 a.m. “For the moment, we take advantage of it and this afternoon, I think I’m going to suffer a little bit. Me, beyond 25 degrees, I am no longer too comfortable”, Declare a young woman, seated at a coffee terrace in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), in the report of the TF1 news visible above. However, it will be necessary to adapt to the temperature which will continue to climb to reach for example 28 ° C in Strasbourg. It is 10 degrees more than seasonal normal.
28 ° C in Lille, 25 ° C in Toulouse, 30 ° C in Paris …
But not everyone seems to have found an outfit of circumstance. A young man in pants and vest admits it: “I did not anticipate anything, I do not look at the weather”, he said, while ensuring that he has water in his backpack. A young woman, circumspect, says that she “It’s a bit of a double -edged sword”: “It’s pleasant and at the same time worrying, which gives a somewhat bizarre feeling”.
Indeed, this episode of heat surprises France with 28 ° C in Lille and Grenoble, 25 ° C in Toulouse, 27 ° C in Rouen and even 30 ° C in Paris. For 72 years, this symbolic peak of the 30 degrees had not been reached as early in the capital. Some residents therefore had to adapt. “Given the heat, this morning, we agreed to run at 9:30 am rather than around 11 am or 11:30 am”testify two retirees.
-It has already been a little hotter a little earlier in the season.
Météo-France
Where do these temperatures worthy of a month in July come from? “We have a mass of air which comes from the south of the Iberian peninsula which arrives to France and it is already hot. In addition, you have the effect of the high pressure which is a high pressure dome above our heads which presses, which compresses the air, which warms it more”explains Angel Noiret, meteorologist at TF1/LCI.
However, as we told you in a previous article, “This unusually hot episode of time for the season will not be a priori exceptional”according to Météo-France, recalling that“It has already been a little warmer earlier in the season.” In 2024, an episode of early warmth affected France from April 5 to 8, three weeks earlier. In 2018 too, “Mercury exceeded 25 ° C throughout the country” From April 21, “And there is no shortage of examples”note the national meteorological observatory.
As of this Saturday, May 3, temperatures will start to drop over the northern half of the country, and this trend will be generalized on Sunday.
