“There is no more season my good lady! “. The expression particularly used, no doubt excessively, is however not so far from the weather situation in June in the capital. According to François Jobard, meteorologist at Météo-France, it averaged 22.4 degrees in Paris in June, “the first time that summer has started so hot, since the start of measurements, which dates back to 1873” .
In comparison, in June 2003, the year when the heat wave raged throughout France and caused thousands of deaths, the average temperature in the capital was 21.8 degrees.
While it could be seen as a paradox, Paris has also been the scene of many storms, like the rest of mainland France, and consequently of heavy and sudden rainfall, which occasionally caused flooding.
Another record
Another weather record was recorded in June in Paris: 23 consecutive days of heat, with several days over 30 degrees in the Paris region and in inner Paris.
Maud Lelièvre, elected member of the Modem, Democrats and Ecologists group and rapporteur for the mission to inform and evaluate the elected officials of the City of Paris linked to climate change, who submitted a report in April, confided to 20 minutes that “every euro invested must be imagined and thought about in terms of this Paris which is going to be overheated”. This beginning of summer confirms it.