Deadly storms in Corsica: “These phenomena are extremely difficult to predict”

Deadly storms in Corsica These phenomena are extremely difficult to

A violent stormy episode hit Corsica on Thursday with gusts that reached 200 km / h in places. The bad weather killed five people and injured at least twenty with impressive damage. The late activation of orange vigilance illustrates the difficulty of translating the probabilities of weather phenomena into a credible warning system. The explanations of Gerhard Krinner, climatologist and director of research at the CNRS at the Institute of Environmental Geosciences.

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