🎧 “An Average of 5 to 10 per Year”: Can Tornadoes as Devastating as in France Also Occur Here?
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In the daily podcast “HLN Today”, weatherman David Dehenauw answers the pressing weather questions from our readers and listeners. After seeing startling images of a tornado in the south of France, which injured 41 and destroyed half a village, listener Gianni wonders if such a natural disaster could also occur in Belgium.
The warm and dry summer, fueled by climate change, is creating the conditions for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. Experts are warning of this after 41 people were injured in a tornado in southern France on Monday.
Tornado in Aude: "Global Warming Generates Thunderstorms with Increasingly American Characteristics"
Davide Faranda, a researcher at the CNRS specializing in extreme weather events, explains the link between the intensification of thunderstorms, which trigger tornadoes, and the increase in temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions.
Roofs torn up, trucks transported for several kilometres, completely blown buildings and many wounded: while it is often associated with tornadoes in the United States, the tragedy of the small town of Pomas, devastated by this extreme weather phenomenon, reminds us that France, too, can be affected. The department of Aude, in which the commune is located, is known to be particularly at risk. Shortly before the passage of the tornado, the bullet…
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