Highest temperature in Paris on July 22?

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Market context

Paris-Le Bourget Airport’s highest temperature on 22 July will be determined by the day’s actual peak reading in Celsius, as recorded at the station and then matched to the market’s settlement band. At 4.44pm UTC on 22 July, the 0% YES price implies the crowd sees the listed outcome range as extremely unlikely, which is usually more a reflection of market structure and stale positioning than of any settled meteorological fact.

The nearest comparable reference point is the previous day’s market on Paris, where the leading outcome sat at 26°C with 100% implied probability and the next band at 21°C or below at 0%. That shows how sharply these temperature contracts can concentrate when traders think the day’s range is already effectively known, but it also underlines that a single forecast miss, a delayed warm-up, or an afternoon surge can still move the realised high into a different band. A recent Le Monde report noted France was still under a new heatwave, with Météo-France saying it did not currently see an end to the heat by the following week, which is the kind of regional backdrop that can keep upper temperature bands live even when one day’s market looks one-sided.

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Methodology

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