Nick Ferrari

This is not going to get any better before the middle end of the week.

And in the meantime, it's 40, 41, 42.

Paris could easily hit 40 tomorrow or Wednesday in parts of central France, Poitiers, Limoges, west-central France.

It's already above 40 degrees.

It's intolerable.

It's insufferable.

It's extremely difficult to live through.

But it is becoming something that people have to get used to.

It's the second heat wave in a month and we're only just arriving in summer.

Indeed, and it is beginning to enter the debate, this whole issue of the sort of lack of preparation, as the government's critics would put it.

Now, that's true.

Air conditioning is not something which is uniformly there in schools or in hospitals.

And there's a big debate now about whether that should be the case, whether it should be the mass roulette of air conditioning, knowing that there are certain people on the environmentalist movement who are opposed to it.

air conditioning because of the damage it does to the environment.

But, you know, the real life consequences of this heat are becoming more and more apparent.

And the fact is that even myself, I'm affected because my children can't go to school today.

That applies across the country, schools being shut or parents being told, listen, please don't bring your children to school today because we were faced with temperatures which are just simply intolerable for them.

And that's what's happened to where I am now.

And it's happened right across the country.

That was the famous 2003 heat wave.