France is facing its fifth heatwave in the worst summer on record
El país vive ya 17 días consecutivos con temperaturas extremadamente altas y un total de 75 departamentos del país están en alerta
France has been suffering a new heatwave for 17 days, the third since the official start of summer and the fifth since May, when the first of these sweltering episodes began. We're still only in mid-August and this is already the record-breaking summer in France: the hottest on record and the worst for fires in history. Also the driest.
The heatwave at the end of June, which killed 6,000 people in just over a week, was the deadliest ever experienced, worse even than that of the summer of 2003, when 15,000 deaths were linked to high temperatures in just over 15 days. That year, however, there were no five consecutive episodes with only a few weeks of respite.
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