The unusual weather event France is experiencing highlights not only the early onset of high temperatures linked to climate change but also the increasing abruptness of weather shifts.

Seven people have died in France as a major heatwave brings record temperatures to Europe. Five people drowned in lakes, rivers or near beaches as France battled scorching heat over the weekend, junior energy minister Maud Bregeon said on Tuesday,

France has been experiencing above-normal temperatures since Saturday, with much of Brittany placed under orange alert conditions.

More than 20 towns in France have recorded their highest-ever May temperatures and the United Kingdom set a national heat record amid an extreme early-summer heat event that could mean the mercury climbs to 40 degrees in parts of Spain by the end of the week.

(CNN) — A weather sensor in France’s busiest airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, has been tampered with in what a French weather association says it suspects to be a betting scam. France’s national meteorological agency, Meteo France, said in a ...

Temperature reaches 35C at Heathrow on Tuesday after 34.8C high at Kew Gardens in London on Monday