When southern Europe receives scant rainfall in the winter, the whole continent tends to bake the following summer.
Each of Europe’s 10 warmest summers between 1948 and 2005 followed a winter in which the continent’s Mediterranean countries experienced significant deficits in rainfall, says Robert Vautard, a climate scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Gif sur Yvette.
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