Примеры употребления для canicule
1. But that‘s nothing compared with August 2003, when around 15,000 fell victim to the "canicule". Most were elderly; many had been left to fend for themselves as their families disappeared for the annual holidays without so much as a phone call to check mamie and papy – gran and grandad – were bearing up as temperatures rose to over 40C (104F). The death toll was worst in old peoples‘ homes and (less surprisingly) in stifling cities where the old, friendless and abandoned succumbed to the heat in anonymous apartments.