# Temperatures climbed across Europe again today as a record-breaking heatwave left tens of thousands of people without power and boosted air conditioner sales on a continent ill-equipped to handle searing heat. The heatwave caused France’s first major power outage of the latest bout of extreme weather, after a heat-related incident with a transformer left around 68-thousand households without electricity in the northwestern Finistere region. More than 90-percent of the French population is exposed to extreme heat, with temperatures of 39- to 41-degrees celcius expected.
Major power outage in France as Europe wilts under record heatwave