France: A nuclear power reactor had to shut down because the river that cools it is too hot (28C!), the Louvre shuts early because its climate control can't handle the afternoon heat from its patrons, and people are drowning in rivers trying desperately to cool off.
I wish I was reading these things in a Michael Crichton novel, not the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/heatwave-france-spain-italy-europe
I don’t know what is common in France or not but a bathtub with water in it pour a cold shower can be very effective without the drowning risk
I live in Canada and I hate hot weather, and by hot weather I mean 25C.
This is absolutely awful heat that you have there.
@timixretroplays @NathanMurdock
Exxon Heat is not restricted geographically.
Canada, a polar nation, in a temperate rainforest, Exxon Heat killed 600 over a weekend.
600
On their beds and floors at home. A teenager.
_
1500 died on the street in Mecca.
But the arrival of the new deadly weather is not as pernicious as the gradual rise that has dried rhe worlds forests to kindling.
Canada has burned forest the size of Poland in three years. #Climate heat.
We must build solar, end carbon.
@AnnaBaguenaude Thanks, but my French probably wouldn't cut it. 😁
The awefulness of the Climate at the moment is only the start
Governments where warned of the potential issues and deaths.... building closures due to the heat and power cuts
This is a warning, which Governments will ignore as they are unable to implement the unpopular policies needed to attempt to cope with changes for fear of turning the voters angry....
Action needs to be taken now, before it gets worse.... it probably won't arrest the change but might help some adjust to the new normal.
@timixretroplays but all the conservatives here in Germany told us that we need nuclear plants. Did they lie? 😉
It’s crazy what’s going on in Europe. But I fear that in the months everyone forgot about it and again no changes will be made.
@timixretroplays the past week in Paris has been brutal. We had to stay with family the past 2 nights because we had 31°C inside the apartment and my child couldn’t sleep.
If I wasn’t escaping to my parents’ in the Italian countryside today (naturally cool rooms, greenery) I’d have a full blown panic attack now.
41°C predicted in Paris today and tomorrow, 34°C at night!
@_elena @timixretroplays My family and I are on a trip and spent Sunday + Monday in Paris... An amazing visit but the heat was nearly unbearable! Thankfully much of our Monday was in the Louvre so had a nice day there but the nights with no air conditioning were hard 😅
Hard to see folk really struggling, glad you had a way to get somewhere cooler! Hopefully your wee one is sleeping better?
Saw a lot of folk in rivers, lakes, and public pools during our train rides through Switzerland - looked super appealing.
In Milan now and the apartment has air conditioning and was such a relief to be able to sleep. Looking forward to exploring the city today!
@SuperDocteur @uncycliste I don't think this is just a French thing - putting a theoretical Australian slant on it, I can see people going "it got a bit hot so they went for a dip in the river, bloody typical".
I don't think being desperate for a reprieve from a heatwave has a nationality. Thinking back to my worst summer here, in a concrete block of an apartment with no fans, no aircon, and windows that didn't even fully shut, I might've have gone and jumped in a river too if one was nearby.
Living in the hottest place on the french map these past days, the ppl you see jumping in hazardous wate rstreams are not desperate they are just dumb and think that it is summer fun time a bit early and that there is no harm in jumping in an unknown remote unsupervised river or waterway...
But no, never would they think that they are bad swimmers unfit for livewater diving & swimming...
I wouldn't do it and I'm quite a good swimmer.
This is an education issue.
And by education, I mean both parents not explaining the risks and neither supervising their children in such a situation but also the last few governments failing to teach safety and swimming habits to young pupils as it was done in my time (i'm not so old (I hope :) ) but yet...).
It's going to be warmer soon, and warmer next year, and the next. No, not warmer, hotter.
@timixretroplays So to sum up -
we want Nuclear reactors as green energy.
we want to use nuclear reactors to power AI data centers.
we want to use water to cool both data centers and Nuclear reactors.
river water too hot for both data centers and Nuclear reactors.
still better than solar, wind, water energy source.
also also we much choose between EU aiming for fighting global warming or AI data centers
I might be not a scientist, but I think I know how house of cards easily falls if not for money pushing for dumb decisions.
SACREBLUBLUBLUBLUB.......
What matters when the heat is this high is the relative humidity. I have no idea what that is in the regions experiencing this heat. The Guardian leaves this out entirely.
40C with high humidity and no wind will kill people.
40C with low humidity is a lot less lethal.
edit- Humidity is around 16% in Bordeaux, at least. That just makes it hot, and not lethal.
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