France is facing an unprecedented heat wave. The authorities have been forced to activate the orange alert in eight departmentsafter the high temperatures have been charged “seven deaths”among them, “five drownings,” according to government spokesperson Maud Bregeon on Tuesday.
“They have registered seven deaths directly or indirectly related to heat, including at least five drownings, as well as deaths related to extreme heat during sporting events,” Bregeon reported during an interview on TF1. Regarding this latest death, it is a woman who was carrying out a ‘Hyrox’ sports test in Lyon.
Given the risk, the French Ministry of Sports does not rule out interrupting sporting events during this week, in which thermometers are expected to continue rising until they reachs 39º in Bordeaux, 35º in Paris and in areas like Nantes or Brest, 34º. Therefore, the level de orange alert It will continue for the next few days in Finistère, Morbihan, Manche, Ille-et-Vilaine, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Vendée and Loire-Atlantique. Twenty other departments will also remain in yellow alert, in the western half of the country, including Paris and its inner suburbs, Rhône and Isère. “At the end of the night, temperatures usually exceed 20 °C on the west coast of the country, with values close to 25 °C at the end of Brittany and the Basque coast,” warns Meteo-France.
Los schools They also suffer from suffocation. At the end of the course, the Ministry of National Education sent “operational instructions” to directors of educational centers and heads of institutions to adapt educational centers to this situation, forcing them to prioritize the use of classrooms with sombramaintain the closed blinds and allow students to leave the classrooms to drink water. In addition, the same guidelines urge schools, institutes and high school centers to reduce or cancel physical activities and outings during the hottest hours.
Heat stroke on trains
The heat wave has also affected the train linescausing this Monday incidents on the route between Paris and Nice. During the journey, some passengers were trapped on the tracks for almost 4 hours. The carriages were not air-conditioned, so passengers had to leave the train to breathe. “It’s a real oven in there,” criticized a young man on social networks.
The French authorities have already shown their worry for this phenomenon, and the prime minister announced that next Thursday he will chair a inter-ministerial meeting to address the preparation of the state services to cope with the current heat wave.
According to the country’s experts, the person responsible for this situation is a leadership heat from North Africa which currently covers a large part of Western Europe, causing these exceptionally high temperatures for the month of May that already break all record records.
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