A sign of the new normal for many of us going forward:
'Summer heatwaves in France killed 1,500, says health minister':
Record temperatures were recorded, with the south of the country reaching 46C in June
www.theguardian.com
I was on holiday in Brittany at the time and experienced that 46 degrees C and you could feel the heat in the air temp that had apparently been blown up from the Sahara. I certainly would not have wanted to be an outdoor worker (or working full-stop!) or either sick, very young or very old in that heat. Without the air-con in the car (and holiday rental home luckily) it would have been a very uncomfortable holiday indeed.
I had experienced about the same heat in the arabian deserts before, and also have experience of tropical heat-waves (about 40 degrees in Indonesia over a decade ago), but really it was the jump from northern european normal (so about 27 degrees C) to hot desert temps pretty much overnight and the discomfort in the body having to adjust so rapidly. These are not normal weather events. AGW is real and happening right before our eyes, and this is just the beginning (least severe!) of AGW climate change events.
Spare a thought for those 1500 souls and their families they leave behind please.