Teenagers play volleyball as they cool themselves down in the fountain of the Trocadero esplanade in Paris on June 25, 2019. Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images
PARIS—The sunset had an orange glow. So did the extreme weather warning for Paris.
Meteorologists placed more than half of France, including around the capital, on alert for high temperatures June 24 as a heatwave was expected to spread across continental Europe this week.
