An Indian summer to punctuate a hot and dry summer? This is what seems to be taking shape for the weeks to come. While the early return to school will take place under a sun that we are used to seeing in Belgium, the weeks to come are also shaping up to be rather warm.
And to come back to the next few days to start, the mercury will once once more exceed 30 degrees this Wednesday. “We will once more have two or three days with very high temperatureswarns Pascal Mormal, meteorologist at the IRM. We should not observe an official heat wave, despite these few days of 30 degrees or more, but this long sequence of good weather and high temperatures will persist throughout the next week. For the end of August, we will end up with temperatures 8 to 9 degrees above the average for the season. This summer never ends.“
And if we have already talked a lot regarding the drought and the heat, this end of summer is indeed showing signs of a record, while there is a little more than a week left before moving on to the meteorological autumn ( September 1st). “August will probably be the hottest month ever observed in Belgiumsays Pascal Mormal. The next few days will decide whether or not we go beyond August 1997, currently the hottest month in history. If we take the whole summer (June, July and August), we will certainly enter the top 3 of the hottest summers. In terms of drought, July and August will be the two driest months recorded since 1911, we may even beat the record which dates back more than 100 years. On the other hand, we will not beat a record if we take into account the month of June – and therefore the whole of the summer – because it had rained quite well in June, fortunately.“
And for the weeks to come, what should we expect? “We are expecting a fairly warm and dry beginning of autumn, in the continuity of summer“, analyzes Pascal Mormal.
Forecasts that go in the same direction as Météo-France, which estimates that we have a 60% chance of having warmer weather than the average by the end of October. For their part, the specialists of the site La Chaîne Météo predict a warmer and above all very dry autumn until the end of November.
