Weather report. Already alarming eight years ago, fears for the summer of 2050 exploded in Toulouse
By Quentin Marais
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In 2014, Evelyne Dhéliat, emblematic weather presenter on TF1, unveiled a map of weather spies in France for the summer of 2050.
The problem of global warming was then already well establishedbut these scorching temperatures finally arrived earlier, much earlier than expected… so much so that this forecast map was updated in 2022. And in Toulouse, the difference is striking.
39°C in Toulouse according to the 2014 map
In 2014, a first map was presented by the voice of the weather on the private channel. “Eight years ago, I present to you a anticipation bulletin of what could be our weather in August 2050, in the event of a strong heat wave”, she recalls, proven “already temperatures equal to or greater than 40°C“.
This map, “drawn up by specialists who are forecasters from the climatology service of Météo France who are constantly working on the evolution of the climate”, in fact forecast 39°C In Toulouse and Perpignan, but above all 43°C in Nimes, the highest temperature in the country. And it is clear that it actually corresponds to (many) days in the summer of 2022…
+6°C in the Pink City
Eight years later, Evelyne Dhéliat presented a new menu. “What about those 2050 discounts? Have they changed? And yes… “, she sighs. And the difference with the values displayed during the 2014 estimates are very pronounced.
“In the event of this strong heat wave”, the mercury could rise, in August 2050, at 45 degrees in Toulouse. That is 6 units more than what was expected according to the figures of eight years ago.
A temperature that would break absolute records in Toulouse, which has two weather stations. That of Francazal was displayed 44°C August 8, 1923. As for that of Blagnac, it had recorded 40.7°C, August 4, 2003.
“Importance and Necessity”
At the time of concluding her speech, 2 minutes long, Evelyne Dhéliat argues that “all these examples from the past prove to us the acceleration of climate change, and importance and the need to act for our planet”.
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