France recorded its warmest spring since 1900, with average temperatures of 13.8C surpassing previous records from 2011 and 2020.An intense late May heat dome from northern Africa pushed temperatures to historic levels across France, the UK, and Portugal, triggering the first-ever May orange heatwave alert.Experts link these extreme conditions and rapid soil drying to climate change driven by fossil fuel emissions, warning of increasingly frequent and severe weather patterns.