Many cold records observed for a month of May, including some 50-year-olds, were beaten in France this weekend and Monday, from the Oise to Corsica, AFP learned from Météo-France. La France. A tingle should end this cold snap on Tuesday.
A record of 1951 beaten at La Rochelle
"A mass of polar air coming directly from the Arctic" fell this weekend on France, giving rise to "small frosts (...) to the plain, to the feet of the Pyrenees, often of the order of 0 to -2 ° C, locally -3 ° C ", said a spokesman for Météo-France. "Some monthly records, sometimes more than 50 years old, have been broken," he added.
Among the oldest records that have fallen are the temperatures recorded at Barcelonnette, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (-7.4 ° C), in a station opened since 1959 and where the previous record dates back to May 1979 and Beauvais, in the Oise, which surveys since 1944 and beats, with -2.4 ° C record of May 1957. With 1.9 ° C, La Rochelle matched the record dating back to 1951.
Brest, Alpe-d'Huez, Île-Rousse ...
In Brest, in Finistère, where the weather station dates from 1945, the record was beaten with -0.2 ° C, against 0 ° C in May 1979 and 1945. At Alpe-d'Huez, in Isère, where the first recordings date from 1989, the monthly record was also beaten with -7.7 ° C, against -7.5 ° C on May 8, 1997. In the South-West, in Auch, in the Gers, Vic- In Bigorre, in Hautes-Pyrénées, or Biscarosse, in the Landes, the cold records for this month of May were also beaten.
In Haute-Corse, Île-Rousse, where measurements have been made since 1988, broke its monthly record on Sunday with 6 ° C against 7 ° C in 1991. "The cold records for May were about a big month. western part of the island, "said Monday Jean-Marc Malfitano, forecaster at Météo-France Ajaccio.