2023-07-07 17:37:00
A motorist forced to climb on the roof of her vehicle while waiting for help, to take shelter from the flood that submerged the streets of Zaragoza: these images, like others shared on social networks, show the arteries of the city flooded by torrents of muddy water after heavy rains hit the capital of Aragon in northeastern Spain on Thursday (July 6th).
The summer of 2023 is gradually taking shape as extraordinary in the human annals, with the confirmation on Thursday, by the European observatory of climate change Copernicus, of the hottest month of June ever recorded, with the combined effect of climate change and the return of the El Niño phenomenon.
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Even if it is uncertain to predict the rest of the summer, the temperature records have been linked since April, from China to Spain via the Atlantic Ocean, the most direct sign of the disruption of the climate of the planet.
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But other extreme meteorological phenomena, such as these torrential rains in Zaragoza, or forest fires and droughts, more and more frequent in Europe, testify to the climate change at work.
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