Paris, June 22: France gritted its teeth Monday for a week of record-busting temperatures, sweltering under a gruelling heat wave that combines daytime highs above 40 degrees Celsius and sleep-robbing sweaty nights. The national weather service, Meteo France, said that most of the country – the largest in the European Union and second most populated – is entering what is described as a “plateau” of unrelenting heat-wave conditions that isn’t forecast to start easing before Friday at the earliest.
In a country without widespread air conditioning, people, businesses and services tried to adapt as best they could. (AP)
