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IN PICTURES: How France is coping with the record-breaking heatwave

As the heatwave peaks here were the scenes from around France as children, adults and animals did their best to cope with record temperatures.

Published: 25 July 2019 16:01 CEST
IN PICTURES: How France is coping with the record-breaking heatwave
St Malo, Brittany. Photo: AFP

Paris recorded its highest ever temperature as mercury levels hit 42.6C in Parc Montsouris, with records in Troyes, Rouen, Lille and Dunkerque also tumbling. 

Placing a number of departments on red alert for extreme heat, the government warned against physical exercise and unnecessary travel, encouraging regular intake of water. 

A young boy cools off in Paris' mist machines. Photo: AFP

Temperature records were broken in Paris. Photo: AFP

People cooling off in the Trocadeo fountains in Paris. Photo: AFP

Paris' urban beaches like the one at the Bassin de La Villette were descended upon by overheating Parisians. 

With some having to queue for over half an hour for entry, others decided to skip the lines and bathed in open areas of the canals. 

 

The city of Paris activated its emergency heat plan earlier this week, cool rooms were opened, extra water fountains installed and parks have been kept open overnight. 

Swimmers make the most of the Bassin de la Villette. Photo: AFP

Earlier today, at a summer camp for the children of SNCF employees, six children were hospitalised in heatstroke, whilst others were treated at the camp. 

READ MORE: Paris heatwave leaves children hospitalised with heatstroke. 

 

And it's not just the children feeling the heat! 

 

 

It's France's second extreme heatwave in under a month, but although temperatures in the capital reached new heights, the France-wide record of 46C – set earlier this month in southern France's Herault département – have not been reached. 

Nonetheless, continuing high temperatures have left signs of drought in areas such as the Loire Valley. 

Drought strikes the Loire Valley. Photo: AFP

Elsewhere in the south, training at Grenoble Rugby club proved a little too hot for comfort as members plumped for a more heat-appropriate budgie smuggler option.

 

One Frenchman even captured the moment some plastic road markings fell victim to the temperatures and started to melt. 

 

 

Luckily, for those struggling to cope with the heat, temperatures are predicted to drop rapidly after today. Highs of 31C are predicted in the capital for Friday, whilst storms on Saturday see it drop to 22C. 

 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

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Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Summer is finally here! Or least it is if you live in southern Norway, where a warm front coming up from Europe will bring t-shirt temperatures of 20C by Thursday, according to forecasts.

Published: 30 April 2024 08:42 CEST
Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Warm air from southern Europe will combine with a high pressure zone which will bring clear skies and sunshine, with summery weather coming towards the end of the week, Norway’s national weather forecaster Yr has reported. 

“Thursday and Friday especially will be nice,” Ingrid Villa, a meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, told the public broadcaster NRK. “Then we will probably get temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius in some places.” 

Patches of 20C warmth are expected both in western Norway around Bergen and in Western Norway around Oslo, with the area around Tromsø expected to have slightly cooler weather, although Villa said that “it will absolutely be something like summer there too”. 

The warm sunny weather is, however, expected to pass northern Norway by, with grey overcast skies expected for much of this week. 

But if you think summer has come to Norway to stay, you risk disappointment as much cooler temperatures are expected next week.  

“There’s nothing unusual in getting an early taste of summer in April and the start of May, and then we can quickly go back to cooler more spring-like weather,” Villa said. 

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