France is currently in the grip of its fifth heatwave of the summer - but one weather channel predicts that this will be the last one for 2026.

France is now in the grip of its fifth heatwave of the summer of 2026 - although sometimes it's hard to tell when one ended and the next one began. So when will this one peak?

Seventy-eight departments, including Rhône, Hauts-de-Seine, Calvados and Finistère, are on orange heatwave alert. Weeks of drought have led the authorities to impose successive…