Can the weather phenomenon at the origin of the devastating bad weather that hit the Emilia-Romagna region occur in France? Nearly 40,000 people evacuated and displaced, 14 dead, more than 305 landslides engulfed thousands of homes and half a thousand roads cut off. The very sudden rise in water in the afternoon of Friday after canals overflowed, submerged by the waters of swollen rivers, is the direct consequence of an increasingly frequent weather phenomenon.
Global warming and the so-called tropicalization of the Mediterranean climate increase the risk of seeing this type of event occur more often and more intensely.