DIRECT. Heat: The Thermometer Reached 37.8°C in Angoulême on Thursday, Breaking the Old Heat Record for a Month of May, Measured in Corsica in 2009
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37.8 degrees in May? In France, people are sweating at the highest levels, which experts call "historic." Weather service gives a warning.
On 28 May, "the warmest day of this episode on a scale from France" according to Météo France, some stations have found values that have not yet been reached for this period, such as 37.2 °C at Perpignan, 36.6 °C at Bordeaux 36.6 °C or 36 °C at Niort.
Such a level of heat had never been measured in May since the beginning of the surveys.
The heat wave is expected to continue this Friday, with 14 departments kept on heat orange alert. Mercury is expected to begin to fall this weekend.
On Wednesday 28 May 2026, the thermometer climbed to 37.8°C in Angoulême-La Couronne, Charente — erasing the former national record of May, which had been in Sollacaro, Corsica, for seventeen years, with 37°C registered on 25 May 2009. A tenth of an additional degree is sometimes enough to rewrite the climate history of a country. This heat dome is due to the formation of a powerful anticyclone blocking on the west of Europe, coupled with a sout…
A new temperature record for the season in France has just been beaten this Thursday, May 28th: 37.8°C measured in Angoulême. 1192 monthly records have been exceeded in the country for a week. And in the next [...] Read more...
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