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France's Third Heatwave of the Year Drags on, Less Intense than the Previous One but Still Stifling

Summary by Le Monde
Twenty-four departments in northwestern France and the Paris region will be placed on red heat alert on Saturday, with 56 departments on orange alert. The very high temperatures could persist until Thursday.

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According to Météo-France, 59 other departments pass in orange vigilance, and only the departments of the South-East and - for thunderstorms - Corsica remains in yellow vigilance, spared by the heat temperatures. A total of 22.2 million inhabitants - three times more than Friday - will be affected by the highest level of alert defined by the meteorological institute, according to a calculation of the AFP from the annual data of the INSEE not ref…

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The heat wave continues in France, this Saturday 11 July. 24 departments have been placed in red heatwave vigilance, 56 others in orange. Some are even in yellow, mainly on the forehead...

Extreme scenarios in terms of heat are becoming more and more recurrent in France in recent weeks, do we have to give them credit? Extreme scenarios France has been suffering for several days now the third heat wave of the summer when we are only at the end of the first decade of July. Even if a red vigilance has again been triggered by the services of Météo-France, the maximum values remain below what our country was able to know at the end of …

Nearly a quarter of the 96 departments of metropolitan France go on this Saturday to the maximum alert due to strong heat, at a time when the risk of forest fires is especially high due to dry soils, warned this Friday Météo France. The entry France, again whipped by the extreme heat and by a high fire risk was first published in Digital Process.

The national meteorological service, Météo France, has indicated that this region, with its 12 million inhabitants, has now been placed on high alert for the second time this year, a historical situation since data has been available.

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Le Monde broke the news in Paris, France on Friday, July 10, 2026.
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