France has been hit by a series of heat waves this summer that began in May. There have been searing temperatures across the country. At one point, it was hotter in Brittany and Normandy in northwestern France than down on the Mediterranean coast.
The summer has also seen wildfires in many parts of France, particularly in the southwest and the south, but also in the forest at Fontainebleau outside Paris. What can be done about it? Can “fire modeling” help?
Reporting from Paris deputy editor Elaine Cobbe speaks to Aurélien Costes, a fire scientist from Bordeaux, and Météo France weather forecaster Olivier Proust.
