The completely dry bed of the Issole river in Flassans-sur-Issole, in Var, on February 21, 2023. NICOLAS DUCAT / AFP
FIG DATA – The low amount of rain this winter raises fears of the worst. Find out the state of groundwater in your department.
Drought is no longer reserved only for summer periods. France has not experienced real rain for 32 days, the longest meteorological drought on record. It exceeds that of 2020, which occurred for 31 days between March 17 and April 16, during the first confinement of the Covid-19 epidemic. Fig Data analyzed more than 3,000 stations across the country and drew up an initial assessment of a historically dry winter.
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