“We are witnessing something incredible. By far the most extreme climate phenomenon in world history. Thousands of records are beating brutally from North Africa to Asia. And with margins never seen.” These words are from Max Herrador, one of the greatest public experts in extreme meteorological phenomena.
And, seeing maps like the one that opens this article, reason does not lack.
The best example is Kuwait. According to provisional data, Mitribah’s Kuwaiti city exceeded 46 degrees in April for the first time in history. And, just after, he exceeded 47, then 48 and, finally, he put almost 49.
It is not an isolated fact: more than 45 degrees in Egypt, in India or in the Middle East; 45 also in Sudan, 45.7 in Chad, 45.5 in Niger; The completely sprayed central Asia records. We talk about absurdly high temperatures for latitude 30 at this point of the year. In the case of Mitribah they are very close figures to the historical maximum reached.
In addition, the heat wave has a huge extension that covers three continents. And, as Herrera points out, everything indicates that the situation is going to get worse.
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What is happening? It is a great question. Because heat waves never come alone. They have serious social implications (more aggressions, more violence, more crimes, more homicides) in areas of the world that right now are a polvorín: Syria, Israel, Ukraine, Sudan …
The problem is that we don’t know very well why all this is happening. A priori, we can think that the same atmospheric dynamics that has given us an extraordinarily wet March and a much cooler spring than what is usual is the one behind the heat waves of much of Central Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
After all, in meteorology the masses of air are pieces that play a strategic dance between them and the changes that occur in any part of the world, have effects on the rest.
An increasingly uncertain future. I do not know if Herrera is right and we are living one of the most extreme meteorological phenomena in the documented history of the earth. However, it is clear that the situation does nothing more to complicate. Not only because things are changing very fast, but because we don’t know where it goes.
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