Europe may battle with yet another climate-driven drought this year: EU lawmakers are preparing for a potential climate-induced crisis this summer as Mediterranean countries including Italy recorded high temperatures this spring typically experienced in summer months, CNBC writes. The continent experienced soaring temperatures over the past winter — 10-20°C higher from France to Russia, taking a visible toll on countries like the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Czechia’s waterways, and was dubbed the “the most extreme event ever seen in European climatology,” according to a report by climatologist Maximiliano Herrera published in the Washington Post. The winter highs are leading researchers to predict a similar drought crisis similar to the one Europe saw last summer, which was the highest it faced in centuries, CNBC notes.

REMEMBER- Europe experienced its worst drought in 500 years in 2022, according to analysis by experts from the European Union’s Joint Research Center. Among other irregularities, the drought saw dozens of sunken Nazi WWII warships that were once submerged deep in the Danube river resurface near the town of Prahavo in Serbia last summer.