The weather has changed a lot in the last few hours. After the heat and the drought, it is the rain and the freshness that will accompany us this week. An unmistakable sign, for specialists, summer is well and truly over.
The rain is back and the temperatures have already dropped. This time, confirms a climatologist, summer is over for good.
“We had a depression which sent more very warm air at the start of the week, and now we are going to have an anticyclone which will send us a flow from the north, which comes directly from the Arctic”, explains Xavier Fettweis, climatologist at the University of Liège. “When we see the short-term forecast, we are no longer going to go towards 30 degrees, so indeed, we might say that summer ends this weekend.”
The influence of this anticyclone coming from the North will settle but it will be jostled by hurricanes. They are born in the still warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and might sometimes bring rain and a little heat to our coasts.
“When we reread the IPCC report, we expect hurricanes to become more intense, but not necessarily more numerous. Will they reach us? The question remains open because climate models do not know how to simulate explicitly hurricanes”adds Xavier Fettweis.
The return of the rain is news without being one for the specialists. They estimate that we find a weather which corresponds to our latitudes and which already announces the first frosts on the ground in the Ardennes from this weekend.
