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In Paris, the Eiffel Tower partially ended due to the heat. Even so, there were tourists fainting in the city. In the region of the French capital, the thermometers spent this afternoon of 40 degrees after the city faced the hottest night that there is memory.
Still the sun had not been born, already Paris was scorching. The thermometers hardly lowered from 30 degrees at dawn. It was the foreshadowing for a maximum warning Tuesday, where more than 1300 schools in France closed. Here it would be impossible to take classes.
The interior of buildings, climatizedit was suffocating. But studying at home for many students was not easy either. Apartments in Paris, especially those on the top floor of the buildings, are not prepared for so much heat.
There were those who chose to leave the house to Refresh in gardens. But there were also those who faced the heat head on: the tourists. Some, who went to the Eiffel Tower, ended up to faint. And the monument It was not even allowing up to the topby precaution.
An extreme heat that triggers Sudden and violent storms. Here, in the region of Saboia, in the Alps area, a Intense rain made a river climb. Damage were recorded and there were houses that were completely flooded.
O TGV between Paris and Milan, who passes by, It will not circulate in the coming days.
France reaches the peak of heat with temperatures above 41 degrees
The highest temperature recorded was 41,5ºC (degrees Celsius) in Durban-Corbières (south), while in Nimes (south) 39,8ºC and in Avignon (Southeast) 38,8ºC.
French weather services have established a special surveillance in 84 Departments of the countryand 16 of them, which this Tuesday are in ared -leggedwill keep this level on Wednesday, which will be “still extremely hot from the center to the northeast”, with 68 departments on orange alert.
“The scorching heat continues to extend from the center of the country to the Northeast, with values between 36 and 40 degrees in the shadow”predicted the state agency Météo-France, noting that temperatures should start to lower the west of the country and will be necessary until Thursday so that temperatures return to normal. Between the red alert zones is Paris, where the thermometers reached 38ºC this Tuesday.
– With Lusa
