It is 23 degrees this Tuesday evening around 8 p.m. (local time) in Al Wakrah, the district where the Al Janoub stadium is located where the France team faces Australia for its entry into the World Cup in Qatar.
The temperature is mild and a little wind makes the air rather fresh, to tell the truth.
However, the air conditioning works fully in the enclosure.
We saw it ourselves in the press box where small conduits coming out of the concrete send an icy breath.
The stadium is still empty less than two hours from kick-off but the air conditioning seems programmed to the lowest.
At the edge of the pitch, with other aeration methods, the situation is the same.
The air ducts of the Al Janoub stadium, two hours before the start of the match between France and Australia.
PHOTO LE PARISIEN / ARNAUD JOURNOIS Arnaud Journois
This case is all the more incomprehensible since around Al Janoub, the population has taken the measure of the very mild temperature.
A volunteer in charge of guiding supporters wore a long-sleeved down jacket on Tuesday.
If several people, the majority, wear T-shirts or shirts without anything else, others prefer to wrap themselves in a suit jacket or keep a scarf.
No doubt in anticipation of air conditioning which causes hot and cold that can make you sick.
So far, on all the matches we have covered for Le Parisien, the air conditioning was on, whether it was (relatively) hot or not at all.
On Sunday and Monday, a powerful wind considerably cooled Doha, the capital where most of the World Cup matches take place.
It's autumn here and before nightfall around 5 p.m. (locally), the sun is beating down but never above 31 degrees.
It remains to be seen whether or not it will be cut at kick-off.