41.6°C in Rouen
Not far from there, in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (94), it was even hotter (41.4°C), but it was in Rouen that Météo France recorded the highest temperature on Tuesday with 41.6°C under shelter, according to provisional data published at 4 p.m.
Absolute temperature records were also beaten on Tuesday in Cayeux-sur-Mer (80) where Météo France recorded 41 ° C under shelter as well as in Calais (62): 39.7 ° C. Another absolute record beaten in particular in Boulogne-sur-Mer, still in Pas-de-Calais with 39°C.
At the end of the afternoon on Tuesday, 58 departments remained on heatwave orange vigilance and 11 on yellow vigilance over a large eastern half of the country, with rising temperatures, between 37 and 40 ° C in the East, and thunderstorms locally violent events expected in several regions.
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