With an anticyclone protecting western Europe from the disruption from the Atlantic, Sunny weather has dominated for several days in France. Added to this a southeast sector flow bringing an air mass, and you thus have early summer conditions on a large part of the territory. Temperatures are most often Between 7 and 12 ° C above normal.
A first peak was observed Wednesday afternoon With the high heat threshold reaches locally in Seine-Maritime, and more precisely in the small town of Jumièges, located Not far from Rouen, with 30.1 ° C under shelter. If this value is not a record, Several unpublished temperatures for a month of April could be noted. This is precisely the case of Rouen with 29.8 ° C measured at the station located at the garden of the plants (previous record: 28.5 ° C on April 15, 2015).
Several other monthly records have been broken With in particular 29.3 ° C in Damblainville (Calvados), 29.1 ° C in Louviers (Eure), 28.1 ° C in Cossé-le-Vivien (Mayenne), 27.6 ° C in Fougères (Ille-et-Vilaine) or 27.5 ° C in Lillers (Pas-de-Calais) and Angrie (Maine-et-Loire). The heat threshold fixed at 25 ° C has been reached in most regionsincluding on the beaches of Brittany and the Côte d’Opale.
While zone A holidays continue until this weekend, Many were able to enjoy the sun and heat on the coast on Wednesday afternoon. Some were even tempted by swimming in water still cool at this time of the year. It currently displays around 12 ° C in the round and in the North Sea, between 14 and 15 ° C in the Atlantic and up to 17 ° C between the Côte d’Azur and Corsica.
This episode of early warmth will continue this Thursday, May 1, but also Friday with peaks at 30 ° C which will tend to multiply Between the west and the northeast of the territory. A stormy degradation is then expected on Saturday and especially Sunday, dropping temperatures by the northern regions.
