France is approaching the heart of autumn. However, it is a taste of summer that hovers from the north to the south of the country this Wednesday, October 16 in the afternoon with temperatures often worthy of midsummer.
This Météociel map, produced around 1:30 p.m., shows that abnormally high temperatures for the season concern a wide band going from the Belgian borders to the Pyrenees. It is between 20°C and 25°C throughout this area. The thermometer is mostly close to 25°C, particularly in Île-de-France, which corresponds to the heat threshold. With exposure to the sun, the feeling approaches thirty degrees, the threshold of very high heat.
For regions north of this hot zone, this corresponds to midsummer temperatures. These are levels consistent with normals for July or August. In the southern part, the thermometer displays values approaching 2°C or 3°C those of the middle of the summer period. Compared to what is expected in mid-October, the deviation from normal is remarkable. It is therefore between 6°C and 9°C warmer than average.
As soon as the sun rose, it was between 15°C and 18°C in these same regions. The deviation from the average was already close to that observed this Thursday afternoon. In a city like Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), the average minimum temperature is almost 11°C in mid-October. This Thursday morning it was no less than 18.7°C, almost 9°C warmer. In Paris, it is normally 10°C, compared to more than 15°C at least this Thursday morning, a difference of 5°C.
France is, among other things, under the influence of the remains of Hurricane Leslie. It causes a rise in temperatures and brings humidity to France. This is partly responsible for the bad weather in the south of the country, which requires several departments to be placed on orange alert (level 3 out of 4) due to rain, storms and floods.
On Thursday, temperatures should decrease significantly. However, they would remain several degrees higher than seasonal norms.
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