From Heatwave to Hail: France’s Weather Falls Out of Sync

The meteorological summer in France began with a lesson many experts have been warning about for years: extreme weather events increasingly follow one another in quick succession. Just after the country experienced an unusually early heatwave at the end of May, storm fronts, heavy rain, and localized severe hail showers swept across numerous regions in early June. What would have been considered a rare weather anomaly before is increasingly becoming the new reality. Within a few days, the weather shifted from almost midsummer heat to a scenario more reminiscent of ...