If temperatures in June are close to normal, the first half of 2020 is the warmest on record in France with an average of 12.5 ° C. This is what Météo France noted on this last day of June. It is just ahead of the first half of 2007 (12.4 ° C). The first six months of 2014 are in third position with 12.1 ° C.
Compared to normal, this first half of 2020 was warmer by 1.8 ° C. The months of January, February and April experienced particularly strong monthly temperatures (as in 2007 and 2014 elsewhere). February was particularly mild with an "anomaly" of +3.6 ° C, placing it in second place behind February 1990, according to Météo France.
The widest gaps are found in a large central part of the country. Orly and Brive, for example, experienced warmer than average temperatures of 2.4 ° C over the first six months. Lyon, Chartres and Tours record an average of + 2.3 ° C above normal.
🌡️ This first semester 2020 is the hottest on record in France with a national average temperature of 12.5 °, i.e. a temperature anomaly of + 1.8 ° C. It is slightly ahead of the first half of 2007 (12.4 ° C).
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The palm goes all the same to Alistro in Corsica with an average temperature of 15.9 ° C and an anomaly of + 2.9 ° C.
One of the hottest winters
The winter of 2019-2020 had already been very mild. It thus ranks first among the hottest winters since 1900, ahead of the previous records of 2015-2016 (+ 2.6 ° C) and 1989-1990 (+ 2 ° C).
And all the departments felt it: the north and the east of France saw neither flakes nor ice, and we recorded in the South peaks at 27 ° C.
