2025’s rainy spring has brought a swift end to the droughts plaguing several Spanish regions, restoring ecosystems to parched fields, reviving withered trees and shrubs, and bringing back a lush, green landscape not seen for a long time. It has also placed the country’s reservoir levels much higher the averages of the last decade.
At the same time, drought has spread across central and northern European countries that are not used to water shortages. But why have the continent’s rainfall patterns have been reversed?
