DECRYPTION – With + 3.5 ° C compared to the averages of the season, the difference is greater than this summer, where the thermometer showed “only” 2.3 ° C more than normal.
Summer goes into extra time, and if All Saints holidaymakers are happy about it, it is clear that something is not quite right. Is it normal to swim without a wetsuit in the Atlantic on October 30? “It’s complicated to talk about standards, because the climate is changingcomments Robert Vautard, CNRS meteorologist and climatologist, head of the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute. What was normal before is no longer so today. The probability that I will see a chilly summer again as I could experience when I was 10 years old is less than 1%. That time is simply over.”
The whole question now is to know what our future will be, and whether summer autumns (or autumnal summers) will become ordinary. And this, one week before COP27, which will meet in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, and while the UN was alarmed on October 27 in its annual report of the future trajectories of temperature curves.
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