The study of the water cycle is of crucial importance for all societies and more particularly for those around the Mediterranean which suffer both from droughts in summer and floods due to extreme precipitation events occurring in the autumn and in winter. Temperature is one of the main factors that govern the maximum intensity of precipitation through the Clausius-Clapeyron (CC) relationship. This law expresses the maximum amount of water vapor that the atmosphere can contain at a given temperature. Using regional climate simulations and observations, we have shown that the temperature-precipitation extremes relationships of the Mediterranean basin have a hooked shape with an increase in extreme precipitation near CC at low temperatures an...