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

France records hottest day ever as 40 people drown across country

National weather service, Météo-France, says Tuesday was the hottest day since measurements began in 1947

The Guardian

@timixretroplays

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.

@NathanMurdock fortunately I live in Australia, not France, so this isn't affecting me directly - but we get our own brand of awful hot weather in summer, so I'm not looking forward to it this year.

@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.