Europe's record-breaking heatwave left around 68,000 households without electricity in western France on Wednesday, authorities said – the country's first major power outage of the latest bout of extreme weather. The outage, which involved a transformer on the electricity grid, was related to extreme temperatures, the prefecture in the coastal department of Finistere said in a statement.
Europe's record-breaking heatwave left around 68,000 households without electricity in western France on Wednesday, authorities said – the country's first major power outage of the latest bout of extreme...
The outage, which involved a transformer on the electricity grid, was related to extreme temperatures, the prefecture in the coastal department of Finistere said in a statement.
Temperatures expected to hit 40C in parts of the UK, as extreme heatwave spreads slowly eastwards, sparking warnings in Italy and the Netherlands France records hottest day ever as 40 people drown across...
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Europe's record-breaking heatwave left around 68,000 households without electricity in western France on Wednesday, authorities said – the country's first major power outage of the latest bout of extreme weather. The outage, which involved a transformer on the electricity grid, was related to extreme temperatures, the prefecture in the coastal department of Finistere said in a statement. Temperatures expected to hit 40C in parts of the UK, as extreme heatwave spreads slowly eastwards, sparking warnings in Italy and the Netherlands France records hottest day ever as 40 people drown across country Tell us: how is the heatwave in the UK and across Europe affecting you?
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