Dry, drier, driest. And warm, warmer, warmest. This is what the weather forecasts for the coming days sound like. As a result, the chance of a warm summer is even greater. “When there is little or no moisture in the soil, all that energy from the sun goes to warming the air and then you have a greater chance of higher temperatures anyway,” says VTM weather forecaster David Dehenauw. And in the next five years, there will be at least one year of average temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than before the industrial age, the United Nations warns. “We can’t go back to how it was when we were kids,” says our climate expert Jill Peeters.
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It is already warm and it will be much warmer. Climate experts: “It will get worse and uglier for at least another thirty years”
