Tuesday marked the peak of the heat wave in the north and east of France. In Paris and its suburbs, the inhabitants faced up to 40.5 ° C. Heat all the more difficult to endure in dense and little wooded cities.
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The sun is high, and a few inhabitants try to escape the stifling heat by taking refuge around Lake Créteil, in Val-de-Marne. A 42 hectare body of water where you can enjoy a light breeze in the shade of the plane trees. Adrien Cazal, a 21 -year -old electrician, took a week’s vacation to better support the heat wave. “I put outdoor video surveillance cameras, I couldn’t work anymore. It’s unbearable,” he says. If swimming is prohibited in this artificial lake created in a former career, Saïd Ryaad, an 18 -year -old student, still intends to swim with his three friends “because the heat wave is a dinguerie”. “I had a fever a few days ago with the heat,” he explains, his towel and a pack of water under my arm. Some joggers, men in his fifties, push their limits but probably not the danger.
Throughout Tuesday, July 19, which marked the peak of the heat wave in the regions of the North and East of France, the Parisians and the inhabitants of the communes of the suburbs faced extreme temperatures, rendered d ‘A lot more difficult to live in dense, mineral and little wooded cities. The capital has experienced its second hottest day since the start of the surveys, with 40.5 ° C – far from the absolute record of 42.6 ° C recorded in July 2019. At the end of the day, air quality Was affected by a forest fire in the Yvelines and the rise in the fumes of the fires that rage in Gironde.
A day that Pauline Teil was particularly apprehensive. “I try not to think about climate change, nor to look at the news, that worries me to the highest point,” explains this 24 -year -old psychologist, who works in Créteil. “Each year, we are breaking temperature records. It is not the ban on plastic straws that will change something,” creaks his colleague Fiona Severan, a lawyer of the same age.
At the same time, Place de la Bastille in Paris, hot air blows on onlookers. Skateurs abandon the slide to take refuge in the shade. Next to the arsenal basin, blue tents are exposed to the sun, in which around sixty isolated minors live. The camp was installed about fifty days ago by the Utopia 56 association, while waiting for the public authorities to welcome these young people in suitable support and accommodation structures. = “Data: Image/SVG+XML,%3CSVG%20xmlns = ‘http: //www.w3.org/2000/svg’%20viewbox=’0%200%20664%20443’%3e%3C/svg%3e “Data-Srcset =” https://img.lemde.fr/2022/07/19/0/0/5000/3335/1328/0/45/0/477c295_16582704748333-girette-canicule-19juillet22-32001.jpg 1328W , https://img.lemde.fr/2022/07/19/0/0/5000/3335/664/0/75/0/477c295_16582704748333-girette-canicule-19juillet22-32001.jpg 664W “data-sizes = “(Min-width: 768px) 664px, 100vw” Alt = “A camp of isolated minors, Place de la Bastille, in Paris, July 19, 2022.” width = “664” height = “443”>
discomfort, insolations, dehydration
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