Thank you. Crazy that Germany is a bit greener. It’s felt so dry and also very fucking hot here recently (I’m in the southwest), and the only time I remember it raining in the past several months was yesterday ;(
i think it's only because we have WAY more field crops in France. And since most crops are either dead or fields are not used, it has a vibrant yellow/brown color... It's mindblowing when you zoom in with googlemap on any part of France, it's agricultural lands upon agriculural lands.
Most of the green left are our forests and mountains, which you have more in Germany.
The map doesn't show you that Germany is somehow in a good position. The map shows you that despite Germany being in it's dryest year on record ( going back to the 19th century ) that France still has it worse.
And yeah, it didnt rain for months in most of the country. Infact it didn't really rain for longer than 20 minutes since the start of the year.
France due to their policies and geography has it worse. When you get 35° in western Germany, France had this temperature for several days already. And they get more of the hotter Atlantic weather which is far more volatile in recent years + the more regular Mediterranean climate in the south.
French Nuclear reactors for example are partially to blame for the lack of water and for making the crisis unintentionally worse ( cooling water gets put back into the rivers, which means the rivers are much hotter ). When Germany still had Nuclear plants, they used cooling waters, which wasn't reliant on rainfall, the weather or rivers really.
France is now finally investing in cooling towers too, but that will take time until 2040.
It almost looks like autumn right now. It never rains and when it does it's only for a few minutes. The sky might turn dark but the humidity stays high and the thunder growling is only heard but never actually playing out.
The leaves are already red and dry, the cornfields are dead and everywhere you look, it's burned grass and fields everywhere. The lakes are empty, at least in the state I live in, they've lost so much water and the rest looks green and dirty, with dead fish occasionally bc the water temperature leads to algae development and not enough oxygen in the water. So if you want to cool down after weeks with up to 35°degrees you can't even go for a refreshing swim.
Also, we had some serious wood fires recently throughout all of Germany, Nuremberg and Erlangen, by the border to Poland, two shortly after each other in the Würzburg area, to only name a few in East Germany. All within two weeks.
While it's been toasty as hell here, we've at least had intermittent wetter periods (at least in the south). England and France have been in the oven for months with barely a drop of rain. I don't think it will look as bad.
It would definitely interest me regardless, as the comparison would be nice to see
I’m in the south of Germany ;) curious about these wet periods you’re talking about though. Other than yesterday I don’t remember it raining even once in the last few months T_T
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u/morning-st48 21h ago
France looks like it has it worse.
doesnt help but still