"I think we're finally experiencing a normal year, because we're having some heat waves, typical of summer, but we're also having a summer that's not been bad in terms of drought."

Alfredo Graça, 30, a geographer specializing in climatology, heads the news team at the website tempo.pt, run by Meteored Portugal (the national subsidiary of the Spanish parent company of the same name), which is increasingly consulted for information on the state of meteorology in Portugal and around the world. In this interview with VISÃO, we discover a climatologist with concrete and defined opinions, who refutes exaggerations about, for example, the phenomenon of heat waves, but acknowledges the blurring of the seasons. He also introduces the concept of the "Iberian oven," much publicized in Spain but virtually unknown here.

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