It’s true, global warming is having significant effects on the weather and climate conditions of the Planet.
The Mediterranean, it seems, is one of the seas that is suffering the most from the temperature increase.
Air temperatures are getting higher and higher, even out of season, which translates into equally high sea temperatures. By now, alas, it is no longer surprising to hear about droughts, but also about flash floods, floods, and all that revolves around extreme weather.
Topics that are part of our daily lives, but that often and willingly mainly concern the “intermediate” seasons, namely Spring and Autumn. Winter, for some time now, has become boring, always the same old story.
Anticyclone, sun, locally persistent fog, nighttime frosts when there are thermal inversions.
But the cold? Not the induced one, but the real one, the one coming from the great North or the great East? Well, we know, winter synoptics have become rare and for the cold to hit us we have to hope for the alignment of the Planets. Yet there is hope, even in an era of global warming and climate change, it can happen. It can happen that the Arctic wakes up and so in the coming days you will hear about cold, snow at low or very low altitudes, in short, fully winter weather.
At this point, it is good to remember that we are talking about an absolutely normal synoptic, after all, it is December and that some incursion might target the Mediterranean is part of the game. Will it be a hit and run? We’ll see… Of course, we can’t expect persistence beyond 3-4 days, because at that point it would be a full-fledged winter event.
But it is not necessary to have the event at all costs to be able to say, without fear of contradiction, that the beginning of Winter 2024-2025 has nothing to do with the previous 2-3 years. Who knows if such a start does not represent a good seasonal omen, despite all the evident climate changes that are heavily affecting our regions as well.
If it is a return to normality, so be it, if it is a Winter marked by climatic normalization, it would certainly be excellent news. But the answer, as always, we will have at the end of the season.
The assessments, as always, will be made in March.
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