in the South-West, up to 26°C recorded and a summer night at the end of November

WEATHER – There are no more seasons… While the snowflakes were still falling a few days ago in the four corners of France, the South-West experienced temperatures on the night of Sunday 24 to Monday 25 November. worthy of a summer month. At 4 a.m. this morning, 26 degrees were even recorded in Pau, in Béarn.

“It’s crazy! Three days ago it was snowing », exclaimed the TF1 weather presenter, Ange Noiret, as you can hear below. « I don’t know if you realize: we are 20 degrees above the standards”he continues. Another astonishing figure: the old temperature record for this city in November was 17 degrees in 1983. That is, 8 degrees less than the maximum recorded last night.

A general mild spell linked to several factors

Elsewhere in the west of the country, it was 19°C in La Rochelle or 17°C in Bordeaux even before daybreak, notes BFMTV. As for Paris, it was 16 degrees at dawn, or 10 degrees higher than what the capital should experience in the afternoon at this time of year.

This mild spell has been general in France since the weekend. Between Friday and this Sunday, the mercury rose from 5 to 15°C in Lyon, from 8 to 17 in Toulouse, from 3 to 13 in Strasbourg and from 3 to 16 in Auxerre, for example. And this mildness therefore transformed on Sunday into summer temperatures in the South-West, with up to 28°C recorded in the Pyrenees during the day.

This heat is linked to several factors. First, storm Bert, which is blowing particularly in the United Kingdom, brings hot air to France. Then, as Kevin Floury, meteorologist, explains on BFMTV, there is the “ Foehn effect “. He details: “ This wind which arrives from Spain rises above the Pyrenean relief and, on its way down, will heat up by compression. » For temperatures to finally drop, the hot and dry wind which is currently blowing strongly in the South-West will have to subside.

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