After the snow in the middle of April, the drought at the very beginning of spring.
Several departments are on alert due to the early arrival of drought since the beginning of April.
Restrictions have thus been taken on a more or less large scale.
In the Paca region, particularly affected, the Bouches-du-Rhône and the Var have been placed on drought vigilance, reports the government site Propluvia.
Individuals and professionals are invited to save water.
Also in this region, part of the Alpes-Maritimes is a notch above, in a state of alert and restrictions for agricultural and private watering have been imposed.
Above, the drome department is on “enhanced alert”, again with restrictions on agricultural and private watering.
To the west of the country, part of Charente-Maritime is on heightened alert, as are Charente, Vienne and Maine-et-Loire.
The Deux-Sèvres are in a state of vigilance.
This early state of drought can be explained by a winter with little rainfall.
At the beginning of April, Météo-France indicated in its bulletin that "over the last three months, the surface soils have dried up considerably over almost the entire country, except along the Pyrenean chain and from Roussillon to the 'Herault'.
A pattern that should be less and less rare because "the trend of climate change is pushing us towards systems where we will have a relative concentration of precipitation in winter and then a stop in precipitation early in spring", explains to Franceinfo Alain Dupuy , professor of hydrology at the National Polytechnic Institute of Bordeaux.
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