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LThis commentary is definitively clear. The day of Saturday April 6, marked by warmth peaks on the native degree, is the most well liked ever noticed in France earlier than April 15, famous on X (ex-Twitter) the Infoclimat affiliation, noticed by The Parisian. According to knowledge from the affiliation, the nationwide thermal indicator reached 17.5°C, a file at the beginning of April. Indeed, significantly within the South-West, the mercury rose to 33°C. Enough to interrupt data, after a month of March which was the 26e months in a row above nationwide temperature requirements.

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The indicator utilized by Infoclimat took a median of each day temperature measurements in all stations in mainland France. Other observers additionally spotlight a very distinctive Saturday. The Keraunos observatory, a consultancy specializing in monitoring storm threat, described a studying of 17.6°C as “remarkable”. He recalled that such values ​​had by no means been reached in France till then, earlier than mid-April.

READ ALSO Heat peak: temperature data within the Pyrénées-AtlantiquesIn the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, particularly, the mercury rose to 33.9°C, in Navarrenx. Other data had been damaged in the identical division, reminiscent of 32.7°C in Orthez or 32°C in Pau. In Tarbes, within the Hautes-Pyrénées, there too, temperatures broke data, as much as 30.5°C.

50 data damaged

According to the each day, on a nationwide scale, greater than fifty month-to-month warmth data have been damaged. With one important particularity: previously, these data have tended to be established on the finish of the month. The threshold of 25°C, which characterizes a scorching day, is normally reached for the primary time “between April 20 and May 10” within the northern half, in keeping with Météo-France. And the 30°C mark, an emblem of intense warmth, “between mid-May and the end of June” throughout all the metropolis.

READ ALSO Heat peak, polar wind: clarify these temperature variations? However, Saturday's episode was temporary within the territory, with a marked drop in temperatures this Sunday. In Biarritz, the thermometer confirmed 15°C on Sunday April 7. Across the nation, the mercury hardly ever exceeds 25°C, apart from a number of peaks of 26°C on common within the Center-East and South-East.



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