While the phenomenon generates joy in the population, which will be able to say goodbye to 2021, starting on Wednesday, with unusual winter temperatures of 15 to 17 degrees Celsius, the scientific community is watching it with attention for its consequences.

Extreme heat-related events, in both winter and summer, are on the rise throughout the world, with minor exceptions, with deviations due to climate change of up to two degrees that will continue to increase in frequency and intensity regardless of the seasons, the meteorologist and director of the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute, Robert Vautard, said.

Speaking to Franceinfo, the coordinator of one of the chapters of the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change commented that it is a disturbance with an impact, for example, on the development of vegetation and ecosystems.

Such high temperatures in winter in a generalized manner and for several days represent good news when it comes to paying the electricity bill, but let’s remember what happened in the winter of 2015 and the spring of 2016, the latter extremely rainy to the point that it significantly affected crops, he stressed.

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