Saturday was the hottest day ever recorded in France before April 15. The thermometer panicked in the South-West in particular, sometimes peaking at 33°C.
A new record after a month of March which had already marked the 26th month in a row above temperature standards in the country. Across the country, more than 50 monthly heat records were broken, even though previous records were “generally established at the very end of the month”, insists the Météo Ciel site, a site specializing in weather records.