"We will certainly have the hottest December 31 since measurements began in 1947," said Frédéric Nathan, a forecaster at Météo-France ... The winter heat wave that arrived on Wednesday ...

Since the 2003 heat wave, several preventive measures and an alert system aiming at reducing the risks related to high temperatures have been set up in France by the health authorities and ...

LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France--A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward Monday to Britain and fueled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled ...

In August 2003, France suffered its first major climate event: a heatwave which caused 15,000 human deaths, drought, crop failure and the breakdown of national ...

France is starting to close dozens of schools because of a heatwave, with temperatures expected to climb above 40C (104F) in some regions on Thursday. About 50 schools in the Essonne region ...

Europe is sweltering in an early summer heatwave France on Friday recorded its hottest ever temperature of 44.3 degrees Celsius, as Europe sweltered in an early summer heatwave already blamed for ...

Before this year the previous record was 44.1C during a heatwave in 2003 that killed thousands. Health Minister Agnès Buzyn warned that "everyone is at risk". France's weather service has issued ...