The lack of rain in Portugal is concerning both society and national authorities. Here’s an example: Alge’s river mouth – April 2021 vs January 2022

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  7. Some dude in his castle is pissed right now because his moat dried up. Now he has to find a place to store his crocodiles till it comes back.

  10. While this is another sign of climate change and a massive difference in the water level, we cannot ignore the fact that there’s usually more precipitation in April than in January.

  13. I like when I read about people talk about the future impact climate change is going to have, and it’s like, motherfucker have you seen the climate all over the world for the last 5 years?

  14. I live in Braga, in the region of Minho, Northern Portugal. During this time of year, non-stop rain for weeks is the normal. For almost three weeks now it’s been nothing but blue skies and sunny days, not a cloud in the sky. Mid-day temperatures sometimes hitting 17°C, and it’s winter. Climate change is truly frightening.

  15. Ummmmmmmmmmmmm yeah that’s pretty concerning. Is it primarily drought or from poor water management?

  19. This summer IS going to be *fun* /s

    Honestly though, buy more firefighter planes. You’re going to need them this decade.

    Anyway, you know we’ll be there if you need us.

  20. I’m living in the Po Valley in northern Italy and it hasn’t rained since early December. Currently forest fires in Lombardy and Piedmont. Forecast says 16c for tomorrow. Everything is fucked.

  21. I was in Itally a few weeks ago and there wasn’t a single drop of water so I guess south europe in general is dry

  22. I dont know if thats the case with this specific instance but spanish dams retain most of the water from iberian rivers. I know theyre combating their own desertification but it screws us anyway.

  25. In Porto region in January we probably had 2 rainy days. And during the entire summer last year we had much more rain than usual, together with very mild temperatures. Only few days with temps over 30 degrees.

    Simply not normal. I can recall that in November we also pretty much had no rain whatsoever in here.

  26. Climate Change models pretty much all indicate that most of Portugal and Spain will become mostly one big desert, but here in Portugal government can’t strategize worth shit (and the guys who have been in power for most of the last 4 decades have just been re-elected with a parliamentary majority) so we’ve actually been increasing agricultural use of water rather than decreasing it.

  27. Meanwhile in the US(midwest) we are getting record blizzard storms. Between tonight and next 48 hrs are expected almost a meter of snow.

  28. This year is starting to look like 2017, i remeber at the time there where like 6 months with virtually no rain and then in the summer everything was so dry that wildfires run rampart and 100+ people died.
    I hope we are better prepared this year.

  30. Yeah this is like 10 min from where I live. Sad reality. This season we barelly noticed winter here, aside from the cold in the morning and evening… no rain at all

  31. I worry about the forests of Iberia. I live in an area that has more trees than the average, but its like every other pyrenean oak has an infestation of ~~ergates~~ (the beetle is actually cerambyx welensii) beetles. I hope the government takes reforestation seriously soon.

  34. My mother works in the Hydric Resources offices in the Portuguese Environment Agency (sorry, don’t know how to actually translate that) and she says the whole country is damn dry. They found a car at the bottom of a dam that has been there unseen for a long time. Only found it now because the dam was almost completely dry. It had a corpse inside. The woman had decided to take her own life that way.

  35. I’ve had so much anxiety over the pandemic that I’ve kind of fallen behind on climate anxiety. Got a lot of anxiety to catch up on in the coming years.

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