The 2022 European has been suffocating.
The UK recorded temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius for the first time, while excessive heat waves and bushfires hit France, Italy, Spain and Portugal for weeks.
Several countries are experiencing droughts and rivers are drying up.
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The Rhine, one of Europe’s main maritime rivers, has sunk so much in Germany and the Netherlands that barges are blocked and it is possible that the maritime transport of advertisements will soon be completely stopped.
“It hasn’t rained here since April,” Barbara Wesel, a correspondent for Deutsche Welle (DW).
“The weather forecast indicates that it will not rain next week, so there will be no relief, it will only get worse. “
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“As we see in Switzerland, as we see in France, in many parts of Germany, northern Italy and southern UK, it is dry,” said Clare Nullis of the World Meteorological Organization.
“July very, very dry. August continues this trend. “
Lester Kiewit interviewed Keith Walker of DW (scroll down to listen).
Many rivers are drying up. . . The water has dropped so low that I can walk along the bank [of the Rhine]. It’s weird, like walking on the moon. . .
Navigating the river is so complicated because the water point is so low. . . They have to have fewer things on the barges, so they settle higher up in the water. This is absurd.