Last summer was record hot in southern Europe, and many predict that the summer of 2023 could be as hot and dry as the extreme summer of 2018. This type of extreme weather is becoming more common as a result of climate change.
When the project was launched in the spring, France Télevision's chief information officer Alexandre Kara said that "we should not just say that tomorrow there will be sun, or rain. We'll explain why."
"At France Télévisions, we take the climate issue seriously. We want to put the weather that we report on every day in relation to climate change, says journalist and weather presenter Anaïs Baydemir to Kulturnyheterna.
Answers viewers' questions
She is the face of the program item "météo climat", which translates to something like "weather and climate journal". The weather broadcast has been extended from 30 seconds to 2 minutes, and every evening the editorial staff includes different climate aspects in the reporting.
It can be about how lakes dry out, how the temperature has changed in different places over the past 50 years or about extreme rainfall. The editorial team has also brought in a group of experts and climate scientists to help answer viewers' questions under the hashtag "OnVousRépond".
"It has turned out that many people are very interested in learning about these things. I am not here to point the finger and say that someone has to do this or that, but to give as much information as I can. We want it to be easily accessible to a large audience," says Anaïs Baydemir.
In the clip, you see what France Télevision's new weather and climate reporting looks like, and hear Anaïs Baydemir tell you more.