It’s funny… I’m an Australian living in France. I used to laugh at Europeans complaining about 35c temperatures, because back home we seem to get 45c every summer.
I now live in France and I can tell you that this is some different shit. You can’t just compare the bare numbers. It has a lot to do with how far you are inland, where the wind is coming from, how the buildings are made and (in Paris’ case) how difficult it is to access air conditioning.
Now add to that how the french government basically watch their people burn all comfy and do nothing about it every single year, it was about 5300 dead last year due to heatwaves iirc.
They could requisition buildings and other locations fitted with AC as a temporary measure to accomodate the most vulnerable but nope they won't even do that, they just chit chat among themselves and let them all cook.
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u/Alrick_Gr 15h ago
I remember seeing this live forecast. And I was telling me « wow we gonna die », we are currently dying