Quantifying the geotechnical drought risk for buildings Recently, a new tool has been developed by Data4Risk, for the D4Home platform, aiming at informing the insurance companies on the potential impact of the complex phenomenon of drought and nature of soil (geotechnical drought). Depending on the presence of clay in the soil, the variations in water […]
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Early hail season start in 2023 After the record-breaking hail season in France in 2022 and one of the most severe droughts that western Europe has ever experienced, it is the turn of March to remind us how fragile our climate has become. On 9th and 13th March 2023, thunderstorms crossed the largest part of
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A break or the end of the severe drought? About 90 French departments were in a state of emergency due to extreme water shortage in early August 2022, after the driest July on record, at least since 1959. Fortunately, some rainfall has fallen since then, but the situation remains critical for a large part of
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Trying to understand Medicane dynamics The European Geophysical Union Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Risks was held in Frascati, Italy between 18 and 21 October 2022. Stavros Dafis from our R&D team presented his work on the dynamics of Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones, aka Medicanes. Medicanes are destructive cyclones that tend to become stronger under the influence
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France, July 2022: The driest month on record Only a few days before the end of July 2022, France has experienced the driest July on record, at least since 1959. The first graph shows the departure from normal for the monthly accumulated precipitation in France, where July 2022 stands out as the driest month. This
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Data4Risk: Red alerts for Corsica were issued one day before the derecho An exceptionally rare windstorm battered Corsica on 18 August 2022, which formed east of the Spanish island of Majorca in the early morning and quickly traveled northeast, hitting Corsica after 8 am local time. Data4Risk provides an alerting system for thunderstorms, with 3
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The return of the heatwaves in mid-July in France? More and more numerical model ensemble members have started showing a much warmer trend for mid-July in France. The following chart shows the temperature forecasts of 52 global and regional model runs for Paris every 6 hours between 13 and 19 July 2022. The comfortable temperatures
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An unprecedented number of extremely severe storms in France May and June 2022 have entered the pantheon of months with the most severe storms in France ever recorded. Meteorage, a company that specializes in the detection of lightning activity, has just published that in June 2022 alone, it has detected more than 180.000 lightning strikes
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