Europe, Asia and part of the United States awaits a dry and hot summer. Such a forecast was published by the Climate Change Service, which is part of the EU program Copernicus, Bloomberg reports.
Judging by the published schemes of the May forecast, in June and July an abnormal temperature is expected not only in the south and in the center of Europe, but also partially in the north-west. In August – in the central part of the EU.
“abnormal temperatures can warm up the demand for natural gas for air conditioning (electricity production),” writes Bloomberg, Stefen Stapzhinsky, journalist of Bloomberg.
Stapzhinsky notes that the hot summer is also promised in Asia – China and Japan, which are the largest consumers of LNG: “Now they refrain from replenishing stocks due to high spot prices.”
Scientists said that there is a probability of 70% to 100%, that the temperature in the northeast of the USA, Spain, France and Italy will be much higher than the average from June to August. At the same time, the likelihood of precipitation is lower than the norm in Central Europe, France, Spain and in the north-west of the United States was more than 50%.
Model Copernicus combines the data of scientists from the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the USA. The EU program uses billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world for its monthly and seasonal forecasts.