A break or the end of the severe drought? About 90 French departments were in a state of emergency due to extreme water shortage in early August 2022, after the driest July on record, at least since 1959. Fortunately, some rainfall has fallen since then, but the situation remains critical for a large part of […]
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France, July 2022: The driest month on record Only a few days before the end of July 2022, France has experienced the driest July on record, at least since 1959. The first graph shows the departure from normal for the monthly accumulated precipitation in France, where July 2022 stands out as the driest month. This
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Data4Risk: Red alerts for Corsica were issued one day before the derecho An exceptionally rare windstorm battered Corsica on 18 August 2022, which formed east of the Spanish island of Majorca in the early morning and quickly traveled northeast, hitting Corsica after 8 am local time. Data4Risk provides an alerting system for thunderstorms, with 3
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The return of the heatwaves in mid-July in France? More and more numerical model ensemble members have started showing a much warmer trend for mid-July in France. The following chart shows the temperature forecasts of 52 global and regional model runs for Paris every 6 hours between 13 and 19 July 2022. The comfortable temperatures
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Once in a generation extreme weather events or the new future? Storm Elliott in North America between 21 and 26 December 2022 was characterized as a “once in a generation storm” due to the adverse weather conditions and most importantly, the extremely cold arctic air masses that reached the subtropics. A week later and the
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A heatwave in Asia affects the 10% of Earth’s population Since mid-March 2022, eastern parts of the Middle East and India have experienced a prolonged period of high temperatures, often exceeding 45ºC. Even though these values are not record-high in most areas, the long-lasting effects of such a heatwave are significant. About 1 billion people
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