Now that everything is recorded by automatic weather stations, we can now confirm with data that in some inland areas of the country, during this July, which is typically a dry month, it will have rained as much as in the already historic month of March, when downpours put an end to the episodic drought we were experiencing. We're talking about the same amount of nearly 190 liters per square meter in a month, both in March and July. Disorderly amounts, of course, because it can go a week without rain, and then 60 liters fall in a single day.
But the result is a landscape bursting with green, more reminiscent of spring than the yellow-brown summers, the maintenance of water reserves, and an equally unbalanced drop in temperatures: during July, we've had days with highs of 32 degrees at an altitude of 900 meters, and in the last week we haven't gone above 27 degrees. A luxury, for this time of year.
We already saw that the weather is becoming a phenomenon of extremes in the no less significant episode of the DANA (National Hurricane) a fortnight ago, which occurred the same week we were roasting and the fires had burned more than 3,000 hectares in Paüls and Els Ports. A certain "Americanization" of the weather is taking place, a mixture of extreme, even violent, phenomena with their corresponding calls for caution. And this, combined with the ease of finding official and media forecasts, is once again propelling the weather as a universal topic of conversation, but now with degrees of specialization. And concern.
