Since July 1, not a single drop of rain has fallen on Bordeaux.
And the capital of Nouvelle-Aquitaine is not the only one.
Perpignan, Marseille, Lyon and even Rennes have not seen the shadow of a shower for more than 30 days.
July 2022 was the driest month recorded since 1959, the year of the first meteorological records.
On average, 8 millimeters of precipitation fell from July 1 to 25, "
a huge deficit
", Météo France alert.
“As of July 1, 2022, 88% of groundwater had a water level below average and only 12% a level close to normal”,
completes La Chaîne Météo
*.
Accentuated by the last heat wave and a particularly dry spring, the drought now affects the whole territory, and no longer just the Mediterranean coast.
It is
“very intense in the South-East, with a deficit of more than 80% of precipitation,
analyzes Cyrille Duchesne, meteorologist for
La Chaîne Météo*
.
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