Sources: Météo France and https://www.franceinfo.fr/environnement/evenements-meteorologiques-extremes/secheresse/visualisez-la-secheresse-exceptionnelle-de-l-ete-2026-par-rapport-aux-annees-precedentes_8145884.html
Satelitte images gif showing the exceptional drough this summer in France (and around) compared to the past two years.
97 Comments
AmyAye@nord.pub · 77 pts · 2d
Don't worry everyone, the next set of world leaders will take swift action on climate and fix it, just wait. We can't do it now, the numbers are up.
burido@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
If there's a government left that is...
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 2d
More than just France. I went to Ireland this summer, and I have been several times before. In a country that is normally cloudy and rainy, it was sunny and bright. It didn't rain for the 10 days I was there. That sounds nice, but everything was dried up, it was sad. What is normally a drive through the lush and green countryside, was a drive through the brown and dry midlands. Not seeing those rolling hills of emerald green really bummed me out.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2d
Although snow in winter in Ireland is rare, it used to be much colder. Over 15 years ago, my mates and I would walk in mornings to school and we would slip on frozen footpaths during winter. Now, the winters just tend to be warmer with more rain. Roads don't really get frozen anymore apart from the rare snow events that happen every couple of years. The north gets more snow but anecdotally it is getting lesser and lesser over the years.
mobyduck648@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Same in a lot of the UK, it straight up does not snow in the winter where it used to in the place I grew up. I live in Wales now and it's scary seeing such a wet country so dried out, it's not natural.
gewindestift@feddit.org · -11 pts · 2d
how did you get there?
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 2d
In the womb of a beast that blights fire upon the countryside as it beats a million tiny wings, so fast they boil the air itself
Why do you ask?
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 2d
oh, that was visual and colourful
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2d
I flew to Ireland so my relatives could meet my children for the first time. I make that trip maybe once every 3 to 4 years.
If your response to climate change is to shame ordinary people for occasionally getting on an airplane while billionaires take private jets, oil companies fight renewable energy, and massive corporations produce pollution on a scale no individual could dream of matching, then you're aiming your anger in the wrong direction.
My "once every few years" flight is a rounding error. Telling regular people they shouldn't travel, see family, or enjoy their lives because corporations and the ultra rich have spent decades wrecking the climate isn't environmentalism. It's just shifting responsibility onto the people with the least power to fix the problem.
Or in short: I motorboated your fucking mom across the ocean.
doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1d
Best way to travel, tbh.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 1d
the people doing the occasional flight and driving to work in their car are the same assholes voting for politicians who enable billionaires to own private jets and fly themselves.
While this is Ireland, look across the sea at the UK, in a sane world those ass hats flying occasionally and driving their car to work would all be voting Green, to both move the Overton window and to tax billionaires, ban then fron using private jets, make transport more environmentally friendly and lower emissions. Similarly Canada, Germany, France, NZ, Australia and on and on
We do know who is to blame, every voter in a democracy not voting to move the Overton Window to environmentally sustainable politcans.
Shame on them for perpetuating the orthodoxy and enabling the destruction of the biosphere and shame on people for not calling them out on it, the outcome of which is the inevitable collapse of civilisation.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1d
The Green party have historically been a bit nutty though, with ideas such as abolishing the British Army and Euroscepticism. At a local level they have often opposed green initiatives due to NIMBYism. It’s only recently they’ve become more realistic and lurched to the left. They also only exist in England and Wales, so would have to enter a coalition.
mobyduck648@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I don't recall mentioning how I voted, so that's a wild assumption.
And if the standard is that you're not allowed to criticize an economic system unless you've completely removed yourself from modern society, then nobody is allowed to criticize anything. I assume you didn't mine the silica, manufacture the chips, build the device, or construct the network you're using to post this comment.
Participating in a system because it's the system we currently live in isn't the same thing as endorsing every consequence of that system.
Let me know when you're living off the land detached from society completely. I'll make sure to send you a post card.
gewindestift@feddit.org · 0 pts · 7h
You probably are in the 10% - anyone earning over $55,000
You feel entitled to an "occasional flight" so i assume your overall behavior leads to emissions typical for this group. You use 9 times you share.
A roundtrip flight from London to Dublin alone is already 25% of you yearly CO2 budget. From New York to Dublin its 80%.
But sure, the billionaires....
Remember this on your next flight, look down at the once green now brown wasteland and then at your children. It was you doing this.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22m
Tell me more about how if we all live in tents, that will offset the pollution from the data centers being built. Maybe if I walk my kids to daycare on the days it rains (I already walk them in good weather), the government will invest in green energy. Defending billionaires? Son, you must be lost.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22m
Soggy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
Commercial airliners are only about half as efficient as other kinds of mass transit (busses, trains) in terms of fuel/mile/person, this isn't the gotcha you think it is.
gewindestift@feddit.org · 5 pts · 2d
where did you get those numbers? i call bullshit
https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint:
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 7 pts · 2d
Seems to check out compared to the average bus ride, though. And long distance busses are popular in a lot of countries (including Britain), because they're often much cheaper than long distance trains.
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2d
That was my first reaction but then I thought about it a bit longer and realized that it's not reasonable to compare a local bus ride that stops and starts every other junction, with a transatlantic flight.
The long distance buses are listed there at 27g, which is a shade over 1/10th of a domestic flight.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1d
Huh, you're right. I was looking at "Bus (average)", thinking the regular local bus was represented by "Bus (local London)".
Soggy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10311
https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/sustainability-indicators/carbon-footprint-factsheet
I suspect "domestic flights" in the UK are pretty different than the US (a brief search indicates the average flight is around 4 times longer in the US, and planes are far more efficient during the middle of their flight compared to the ends, but average passengers per flight is a little harder to find for both countries to properly figure that out)
gewindestift@feddit.org · 1 pts · 7h
Thank you for the reply. "Your" numbers are not in fuel/mile/person but in energy/mile/person. So an electric train is much better carbon emission wise than it suggests. I was aware that flights and ICE cars are equal-ish per distance, but the takeaway from this should be to not fly or ICE-drive long distances and not that flying is ok.
Flying is really bad and billionaires as well as common people alike should not be allowed to do it. I do not understand why we still have to discuss this.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 32 pts · 2d
It even goes up all the way to Britain, and all the way east as far as the map reaches.
CobraCommander@quokk.au · 39 pts · 2d
France has gone too far
expatriado@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
we need to stop this dynamite guy
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 2d
Can confirm, most major German rivers had record lows this year.
cynar@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2d
While it's focused on France. It also shows how bad it is in the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain. Spain is a bit more prepared for conditions like this, but the rest (Inc France) really aren't. The consequences of this potentially becoming the new normal are alarming, to say the least.
kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1d
Not only potentially, it is going to become the new normal. At least for a while, as who knows how it will be, when AMOC really gets going.
cynar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Europe's climate isn't dominated by 1 or 2 core effects. It's a balance of multiple competing ones. Climate change is affecting a lot of those, at the same time. It's hard to predict which way things will tip. E.g. if the golf stream fails, then we could get FAR colder winters.
Some of the new potential balances are more unpleasant/annoying, others are more deadly.
Unfortunately, we will see how it plays out over the next few decades. Short enough that us and our children will take the brunt of it. But long enough that a lot of leaders won't care yet, they won't live to see it.
pedz@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 2d
So, when do we drop a giant ice cube in the ocean?
epicshepich@programming.dev · 22 pts · 2d
We've already got giant ice cubes in the ocean, but they're melting!
pedz@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2d
We just need to get some more ice on a nearby comet or something, thus solving the problem once and for all.
reptar@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
But
psycotica0@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 2d
ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d
We just gotta have the comet cover the sun for a little bit
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1d
About that...
https://what-if.xkcd.com/162/
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1d
a comet perhaps like the old days.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 26 pts · 2d
deniers will be like "it is two more days into august that is why"
Damage@feddit.it · 5 pts · 1d
So I'm from northern Italy and I remember travelling to southern years for the first time over 20 years ago and noticing how dry and yellow everything looked in the summer, which was unusual for someone used to green vegetation even at the peak of August.
Guess what it looks like this year here in the North? "Summer's always been hot, you were just younger" my ass.
Jumi@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2d
I'm in Bavaria and even the dandelions have given up by now. An article said that there's an extreme drought were ground is completely dried out over 2 maters deep.
Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 1d
Jumi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
What's that supposed to tell me?
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
Mater is the character's name. I believe they were just being silly.
utopiah@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1d
I traveled through France via train and this is way WAY scarier when you go through. This aerial view is still abstract, actually seeing it, kilometer and kilometer through the entire country is deeply unsettling. This is the new normal and it is catastrophic.
bilgamesch@feddit.org · 9 pts · 1d
I live close to the french border and while it's really bad here - our forests already switched to autumn mode due to heat stress and dryness - it's much, much worse once you drive around an hour west.
unsettling is an understatement. I get the feeling people are avoiding the topic - not denying - but avoiding it, so they don't have switch into full panic mode.
Senseless@feddit.org · 17 pts · 2d
Don't sorry people. Gerhard on <insert any "social media platform> said, it has always been warm in summer.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 2d
Holy fucking shit, I knew it was bad but this puts a whole new perspective on it...
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d
The heat index is 119 degrees where I'm at in Texas right now. That's enough to be lethal for many people.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1d
Damn, that's hot. What's the actual temp and humidity? We got some days like that (105-110 with high humidity) here in central Europe and a bunch of people did die from it this summer.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
It was 107.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2d
Oh shit
Shindo66@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d
Holy fucks....
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
I believe it's spelled "drow". Satellite images are impressive though, they're notoriously hard to see from the sky.
oce@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 2d
Spent sometime trying to understand why a fictional race is relevant, did you mean "drought"?
robsteranium@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
Do you mean drought?!
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 2d
No, they mean Drow. Learn to read
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 2d
nice
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 1d
Eheheh, I hoped someone would notice it
arotrios@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Lumisal@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23h
Huh, didn't expect Nintendo to be the one to get the post apocalyptic world right. All hail our future Squid overlords I guess
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d
We also have a drough of spell checkers.
Ibisalt@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1d
who the fuck cares
Master_Suck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
I know, right? Freaking nerds...
I only come here to get mad, nit to learn word stuff 👋🙂
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 1d
I think you mean getmad.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d
If you don't care when you're writing it, why should I care reading it?
boaratio@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Yay?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1d
france you can make omlettes and baguettes out in the sun now.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
And more of those AI data centers are going to catapult this into perpetuity. So, are we sure this isn't the march toward literal "Hell on Earth?"
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Climate change is nothing but alarmism, guys. Just some conspiracy to keep us all "in check".
Oh that? Oh I remember when we had that in the 80s. Nothing new. Nothing new at all.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 2d
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · -82 pts · 2d
Reported, this is mildly interesting not interesting 'as fuck'
tomatolung@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2d
Some of us actually do find the demonstrably ways the world is changing in front of us due to what is likely a Super El Nino 'interesting as fuck'
Soggy@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 2d
El Niño doesn't really impact Europe, it's a Pacific Ocean phenomenon. The global heating and destabilizing trends are just the highly predictable impact of generations of rampant air pollution.
tomatolung@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-updates/potentially-historic-el-nino-come-analysis-shows-humanitarian-toll-2026-06-15_en
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1d
It impacts globally. Europe will possibly see a milder wetter shorter autumn.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · -51 pts · 2d
you think the grass turning brown during an unusually warm summer with multiple heatwaves to be considered interesting as fuck?
don't come to australie, you will have your mind blown every year
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 27 pts · 2d
Maybe don't compare regions that did not have multiple severe heat waves every summer until only a few years ago with Australia.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · -46 pts · 2d
why not? that’s the point of this post
holy shit grass brown! you guys are like toddlers
isles@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2d
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d
Obvious troll is obvious.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · -3 pts · 2d
apparently not, woke up to 8 people trying to argue with me
Jumi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
Who pissed in your morning coffee?
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2d
Why are the aussiezone fucks always massive douches?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1d
Because that’s where we sent the wronguns after we couldn’t send them to America any more.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · -3 pts · 1d
lmao your loss (in both situations), both are richer than you and have nicer weather
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · -9 pts · 2d
because you autistic americans are so easy to trigger
Routhinator@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1d
I'm fairly certain you're embarrassing your fellow Aussies who aren't flaring sphincters at this point.
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d
Not autistic and not american. Try again cunt.
tomatolung@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
having spent my life in the American West and now being in Europe I'm very aware of deserts and droughts. having toured and studied the dams, canals, and infrastructure for water in the west I also know how tenuous urban human life is when imposed on environments which over leverage aquifers, rivers, and agriculture to sustain people living in delicate ecosystems.
bitch about Australia turning brown every year is fair, as it has for an epoch or more. France hasn't. The AMOC, jetstream, and geography have given it an incredible angriculture belt which predates the industrial revolution and more.
environments are fascinating, systemically. The earth is the only one we have, and I like to understand it.
oce@jlai.lu · 33 pts · 2d
I'm sorry the difficult living conditions at your place makes this mild to your eyes. For Europeans it is shocking, we have our people suffering because we do not have the thermal infrastructure to resist this, powerplants stopping due to lack of cooling, river fret stopping causing logistics troubles, agriculture disasters and a peak of people dying. So such a clear, simple and visial depiction of the phenomenon is very interesting to see and connect to all the troubles we are having now.
elephantium@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d
IDK what pissed in that dude's Cheerios this morning. Maybe it's a bit more mildly interesting than interesting af, but either way I don't think it's worth starting a big argument about it.
I'm glad you posted this.
calcopiritus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
It's not this morning. I already had this dude tagged as an asshole. He's just like this.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2d
Used so much water this year to keep plants alive, and moving to increasingly growing stuff that is drought resistant.
Probably going to get extreme rain next and everything I have will die from that. Then another drought once it has all died.
elephantium@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
https://lemmy.world/post/50958014