Western Europe’s Heat Breaks; Dutch Farmers Raise The Shield; + Climate Was The Pretext

Western Europe’s “climate crisis” is collapsing. Atlantic air is seen sweeping east, with France’s national temperature forecast to drop below normal by Friday. The circulation has flipped. The “emergency” is over.

Daytime highs will fall below 19C (66F) from Brittany toward the Benelux. Even the Mediterranean coast sharply retreats.

For much of the summer, persistent high pressure repeatedly blocked Atlantic systems, allowing dry soils, strong sunshine and warm southerly flows to reinforce one another—again and again. That configuration has now broken down, and cooler maritime air can now push east while lower pressure and a more southerly storm track are being allowed back into western Europe.

Britain made the turn first.