From Daily Mail (caution: tabloid):
France’s longest river has been reduced to a sandbank as deadly temperatures have soared across Western Europe amid a record-breaking heatwave.
As Europe experienced its most severe ever recorded heatwave in June, drought conditions are worsening in France as shocking images show a completely barren Loire River in Montjean-sur-Loire. The dry river, which is 625 miles long, has been transformed into a desert-like landscape with only stagnant puddles that remain.