heatwave

Just like France, despite all of its resources and know how has a heatwave in 2003 that kills over 14 thousand people.

Air conditioning is not common in a country that calls 20 degrees a heatwave.

There is a huge difference that you're out of power because a heatwave is hitting your country, and that you're out of power because it's been raining all day or there wasn't enough wind.

Beyond the initial blast which consumed all that it touched, a heatwave spread over miles that melted everything unlucky enough to be caught within.

Do we get to turn the servers off in the summer when there is a heatwave?

One of their biggest problems is uneven load on the grid - low at night, too high during a heatwave - and this has the potential to make that problem a lot easier.

France had to shut down several reactors in the 2003 heatwave due to the river water getting too hot and had to try and cool some of them by spraying water on them from the outside.

The French (European) heatwave had a lot of long held social and family structures that contributed to it, from a tendency of the elderly to live by themselves, often disconnected to one degree or another from family, most of the country was in 'holiday' mode in August, and other things.

> There is a huge difference that you're out of power because a heatwave is hitting your country Do you really think rivers flowing low is a "heatwave", or is it the new normal?

Examples include last year’s record heatwave in Australia – the severity of which an eminent scientist concluded this week “was virtually impossible without climate change” – and the flooding in the UK at the start of the year, which Dr Otto’s department has just established was made 25 per cent more likely by global warming.