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Heat in September: records shattered in the north of France

9/15/2020, 7:41:01 PM


In Lille, the temperature of 35.1 ° C recorded on Tuesday is the highest recorded in September by Météo France since the opening of the station.

Over 35 ° C in Lille, over 34 ° C in Nancy… While a new episode of heat was invited over the country at the start of the week, this Tuesday day saw multiple heat records fall, particularly in the north-east of France.

“This Tuesday, September 15, temperatures reached unprecedented levels (for a month of September) in the regions north of the Seine.

Monthly records have been broken, or even smashed, ”Météo-France explained on its Twitter account.

🌡️ [#Chaleur]


The # temperatures reached this Tuesday, September 15, levels still unprecedented (for a month of # September) in the regions north of the Seine.

Monthly #records have been beaten, even pulverized.



Here are some values: 🔽



📸 #Nancy @Viewsurf pic.twitter.com/sVlf2O1prO

- Météo-France (@meteofrance) September 15, 2020

In Lille, the temperature of 35.1 ° C recorded on Tuesday was the highest recorded in September by Météo France since the station opened in 1944. The previous record dated from September 1949, with 33.8 ° C.

Tuesday, "we broke records in practically all the stations in the region, except those on the coast", underlined Alain Moreau, forecaster at the northern direction of Météo-France, describing a "quite exceptional episode".

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In Creil and Melun, records broken Monday and Tuesday

In Nancy, the 34.4 ° readings also brought down a post-war record, 33.7 ° in 1947. In Île-de-France, it also dropped 35.3 ° in Creil ( Oise), a temperature that pushes back the record already broken the day before with 34.3 °.

This day also saw new benchmarks being established in Pontoise (34.9 ° C against 33.9 ° C in September 1949) and at Melun (34.4 ° C against 34.2 ° C the day before).

Records for the period were broken Monday in other French regions, from Angers to Orly or Orleans.

In Orthez (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), the mercury had reached 37.9 ° C.

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