At least 18 people died in France, including two children left in a hot car, as a heat wave gripped Europe and smashed temperature records in several cities Monday.

As schools in France closed ‌or modified their schedules, forecasters in Britain predicted temperatures could break June records this week.

The temperature in Bordeaux in France’s western wine country rose to 41.9 C, breaking a record set last August. In Poitiers, in central France, it reached 41.2 C, surpassing a previous high set in 1947.

  • comador @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    That’s a myopic view of the term “Infrastructure”, don’t you think?

    The EU:

    • Has shitty old homes with zero insulation that trap heat inside;
    • Has next to zero building codes for passive cooling;
    • Has zero thermal stress related building codes to protect the power grid, let alone hospitals or elderly;
    • Has zero heat related action plans such as ready to deploy cooling centers or green infrastructure that naturally cool those shitty european urban heat islands built of concrete.

    The EU needs such Infrastructure first and foremost. AC would just make it worse.