Sales of fans and air conditioners skyrocketed as most buildings in France are not designed to cope with extreme heat. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Sales of fans and air conditioners skyrocketed as most buildings in France are not designed to cope with extreme heat. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The electricity outage was related to the extreme weather, with temperatures of 39°C to 41°C expected on Wednesday from Brittany to the Paris region.

Europe braced Wednesday for another day of an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed records in many countries and sent air conditioner sales zooming in a continent unused and ill-equipped to handle searing heat. The extreme weather is being driven by atmospheric and circulation patterns that keep hot air trapped in…