French Meteorological Bureau: The summer of 2022 is the hottest summer in France in 19 years

Overseas Network, August 31st. On August 30, local time, the French Meteorological Administration issued a report to summarize the weather in the summer of 2022, announcing that this is the summer of the "second heat" of France's history, second only to 2003.

According to the French information desk, June, July, and August are the summer of France. According to the French Meteorological Administration on the 30th, the summer of 2022 is the hottest summer after 2003. The average temperature is 22.67 degrees Celsius, which is the average temperature record of 23.1 degrees Celsius in the summer of 2003, which is compared to the same period from 1991 to 2020. The average temperature is 2.3 degrees Celsius.

In the summer of 2022, there were three waves of heat waves in France, which was never seen before. The heat wave lasted for 33 days, the longest record since 1947. Not only that, France breaks the highest temperature record in many places. On July 18th, there was unprecedented high temperature in the entire West Coast. Akacoxi recorded 43 degrees Celsius, Caen recorded 40.1 degrees Celsius, Binhai Bolne recorded 39.6 degrees Celsius, Brester recorded 39.3 degrees Celsius, Brester's new one The record even exceeds the previous maximum temperature record of more than 4 degrees Celsius.

In addition to extremely hot, it was also particularly dry in the summer of 2022. From June to August, France's rainfall was 25%less than the same period from 1990 to 2020. In July, rainfall even decreased by 85%, which made July 2022 the dry July in French history. Therefore, before the summer, the drought of France has become more serious, and the lack of rainfall, the French forest fire has a high incidence. According to climate scientists, although these abnormal weather phenomena cannot be directly attributed to climate change, climate change increases their strength and frequency. (Overseas Network-Paris-Lu Jia)

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