Outside in a T-shirt in the middle of October… Temperatures continue to be high everywhere in France and should remain so.
This Sunday, reports Météo France, new temperature records for the month of October were even beaten, especially in the south of the country.
According to Météo France, it was 32.5 ° C this Sunday in Figari, in Corse-du-Sud.
The mercury had never risen so high since 1979. In Granès, in the Aude, it was up to 30.4 ° C… an unprecedented temperature since 1991.
🌡 Note the remarkable 29.5° in Marignane, heat record for a 3rd decade of October (28.1° on 21/10/1921)
Other records for 3rd decade of October:
28° in Salon-de-Provence (26.7° on 22/10/2013) & at Cap Béar (27.4° on 21/10/1921)
27.7° at Istres (26.7° on 27/10/2006) https://t.co/iVLPUT2eNz
— Météo-France Sud-Est (@MeteoFrance_SE) October 23, 2022
Records "for the third decade of October" are also broken in the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Pyrénées-Orientales and Corse-du-Sud: 29.5°C in Marignane (previous record of 28, 1°C on October 21, 1921), 28°C in Salon-de-Provence (26.7°C in 2013) and Cap Béar (27.4°C in 1921) or 27.7°C in Istres ( 26.7°C in 2006).
Temperatures will continue to rise
These records could be broken in the coming days.
“This situation will continue all next week where we expect 30°C in the southwest and locally 25°C in the north, record temperatures for the end of October”, writes in its bulletin La Chaîne Météo.
And to continue: “The analysis of our thermal indicator for the next 10 days shows, with excellent reliability, the extension of this great mildness until the end of the month, and its possible extension until the beginning of November.
»
🌡️ After a small drop in temperature on Monday, #sweetness and #heat return on Tuesday and will spread to almost all of France during the week.
Maximum temperatures will reach record levels for the end of October, with 31°C in the southwest.
pic.twitter.com/kMeHTEf4Xu
— The Weather Channel (@lachainemeteo) October 23, 2022
“October 2022 (is) for the moment in first position of the hottest October months since the start of the measurements”, already wrote Météo France on Wednesday, with a provisional average temperature of 16.6 ° C (against 16.3 ° C in 2001).