Weather report. After a scorching summer in Toulouse, are we done with the heat waves?
By Quentin Marais
Published on
Launched with an already very hot month of May, the heat waves were multiple and intense in Toulouse and throughout France in 2022. As autumn is fast approaching, the Pink City is she done with these episodes? Response elements.
Since May
The meteorological summer ended on August 31, 2022, with values that touched the absolute records retained by the figures of 2003. But this one had not even started until a first wave heat raged over Toulouse, with a peak in over 33°C May 18, 2022, a record for that month, before the following night also became historical. History, like the red vigilance heat wave published on Thursday, June 16, a month before a new orange level alert. Meteo France had it still active in August. Finally, the second weekend in September had also been that of a heat spike in Toulouse and in Occitania, the thermometer crossing, again, the 30°C threshold. And this, a few days after breaking yet another record, that of the minimums in the Pink City for a ninth month of the year.
“Depending on the weather situation…”
Autumn will definitely not arrive until September 23, 2022. But are new heat waves to be feared in Toulouse by then? « The weather situation for the next 10 days is not conducive to finding values of the 30-35°C typeresponds to a forecaster from Météo France, contacted by Toulouse news. These very strong heats, they are no longer, a priori, on the agenda. »
“Once September 20 has passed, it becomes difficult for the atmosphere to create strong heat. The days become too short. Even with favorable weather conditions, when we start to arrive around September 25, we can consider that, even If we have these conditions, we no longer have very high temperatures. A priori, the risk is very limited.”
If on the side of Météo France, caution remains in order despite everything when reminding “that we must never say never”, an element will weigh in the balance: “the risk of unbearable heat is all the more limited as ‘as the end of September approaches, the nights will start to get longer. Even if it were very hot during the day, there would be a cooling during the night”.
Heatwave vigilance will soon end
Activated multiple times this summer, including once in red in Haute-Garonne, heat wave vigilance “will soon stop” for 2022, specifies, moreover, Météo France. “We are coming to the end, because the nights are too cool for the minimum temperature thresholds to be reached. Even if you had very hot and record values during the day, it would be difficult to reach an unsustainable point. because you could refresh yourself at night.”
Summer “plays overtime”
The more seems hard so behind, but the temperatures will still remain at high levels. “Even if we are still far from these dates, we can have between 25 and 27°C in the region, Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 September, or even 28°C locally, for normals around 23°C”, warns Météo France. “These are normals at the end of August, so if this scenario is confirmed, we can say that the summer is playing extra time… but sustainable way!”
Was this article helpful to you? Note that you can follow Actu Toulouse in the My Actu space. In one click, after registration, you will find all the news of your favorite cities and brands.