DECRYPTION – The speed of the effects of climate change surprises experts.
The heat waves never stop breaking, and the summer of 2022 looks like a long logorrhea of broken records. July is thus the second hottest month ever recorded in the country. More than 90% of the territory is affected by high temperatures, most regions experience temperatures above 30°C and France is about to experience its fourth heat wave of the summer. “We are in fact still in the third heat wave, but which will have experienced two scorching peaks, explains Olivier Proust, forecaster at Météo-France. The situation is different depending on the region. The south-east of the country has hardly known any calm, the temperature there has exceeded 35 ° C daily since mid-July.
“This fourth heat wave will be a little less intense than the previous ones, but longer, since it should last until Saturday, warns Cyril Bonnefoy, meteorologist at La Chaîne Météo (which belongs to the Figaro group, editor’s note). The thermal indicator…
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