Climate Now by Copernicus - February 2022

Climate Now by Copernicus - February 2022
After a dry winter, how is Portugal learning to live with drought?

February 2022 in Europe was 2.4 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1991 to 2020 average.
In Antarctica, it's the end of summer and the sea ice reached its second-lowest monthly average on record. Around the continent, there were 0.9 million square kilometres less sea ice than average this February.

So far this year it has barely rained in Portugal, with 95 per cent of the country facing severe or extreme drought conditions. Farmers are on the frontline of this climate change trend, and in this episode of Climate Now, we take a look at how they are coping, what technologies they can use to make the most of the water they have and hear the bleak outlook for the decades ahead.