France's national health agency Santé Publique France has reported approximately 3,000 deaths in the Île-de-France region (the greater Paris area) during a single week of record-breaking heat in late June, representing 1,565 more fatalities than would normally be expected. The agency noted that 82% of the victims were over the age of 65, and that the toll may still rise as some heat-related health effects take days to appear. Climate scientists have said such a heatwave would have been virtually impossible without man-made climate change, and France's weather service described the June episode as even more intense than the 2003 heatwave that killed 15,000 people across the country.