Up to 40° expected, what you need to know about the heat dome currently affecting the Mediterranean rim

“This episode is exceptional in terms of its duration and geographical extent, compared with what we had in 2022”, explains Alix Roumagnac, President of Predict Services, a subsidiary of Météo France, and it is partly the meteorological situation that is responsible. “With the El Niño phenomenon, which we have been observing for years, the water is warming up in the eastern Pacific, which is generating higher temperatures across the world and accelerating the process of global warming.”

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