It's all subjective. Personally, and this is my hunch, I actually think we could be in for a cold winter and next summer could be similar to that of 2007, which was the complete opposite of 2006.
We will pay for this prolonged dry spell for sure.
Theres no karma in weather. Things average out over time of course, but if the average is shifting then, well, they don’t.
Summer rainfall and évapotranspiration in sub-Mediterranean regions of Europe - North Portugal and Galicia, Gascony, Inland Languedoc, Lyon and Northern Rhône, Burgundy, Valais, Po Valley, inland Balkans and Greece - have not averaged out. They’ve shifted permanently.
This August the Cicadas are silent in Southerm France and Corsica. So are the evening crickets. It’s a weird experience. They finished their mating cycle weeks early because of the spring heat, and they can’t cymbalise above 36C. Plus of course the worldwide insect decline of the last couple of decades due to land use change, pesticides and disease. So it’s weirdly silent. Scarily, kind of permanently silent. Like the fireflies that no longer exist in most of Europe because it’s too light at night. Or the sea in Corsica which was so warm it was not remotely refreshing - all time record SST of 30.7C earlier this month. Not normal. But further North, in Lyon and Toulouse, they’re clack clacking away.
Nature doesn’t always make amends; sometimes it just dies.
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14 August 2022 18:34:44
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