As the Keraunos observatory specifies, the rainy episode of recent days “ will end an exceptional month of October in terms of rainfall with almost 1,200 mm over the month at La Souche. At this same station, the annual total is even more exceptional and is approaching 3,400 mm after an extremely rainy spring. It is a value worthy of the regions of the Indian subcontinent subject to monsoons ».
Mediterranean regions are experiencing an increasingly strong monsoon
Can we consider that the Mediterranean regions must now face a real monsoon, in the same way as in Asia? Yes, and this comparison is not new, but it is more and more obvious with the increase in warm and humid upwellings from the sea towards the land. A monsoon is a diet weather reportweather report seasonal characterized, in fact, by winds that blow from the sea towards the land and which bring abundant rain for weeks.
The best-known monsoon is the one that occurs in India, but other monsoons exist around the world: that of the American southwest, with very rainy storms in the desertdesert of the United States and Mexico from June to September, but also that of the Mediterranean which concerns not only the Maghreb, Spain, Italy, Greece, but also the south-east of France from September to November.
And the global warmingglobal warming only increases its intensity, with sea surface water evaporating more easily due to the heatheat and which then comes to fill the depressions and storms with humidity.
