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Daily deaths (left axis) and minimum and maximum air temperatures (right axis) during the 2003 French heat wave. The abnormally hot daily temperatures in early August 2003 were followed by a consequent dramatic increase in daily mortality, mostly among the elderly. Redrawn from Dousset et al. International Journal of Climatology 2011, 31:313–323; Royal Meteorological Society (14).
