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The day France recorded its absolute coldest record!

It was in this village on January 13, 1968, that a national cold record was recorded in France. Located in the Jura Massif, in doubt, exactly, is what climatologists call a “cold hole.” What happened 57 years ago to reach such extreme cold?

The municipality is known as one of the coldest in France, and for good reason, as the mouth has recorded average temperatures below -20°C six out of seven years.

Statistics from Metto France also show that the village freezes on average 176 days a year! Strong frost (below -5 °C) even has an average of 80 days, and 24 days without a thaw.

Here, cold air is trapped

Located at an altitude of 930 meters above sea level, the mouth experiences a semi-continental and mountainous climate, that is, a climate close to that of some regions of North America (such as Canada and the northern United States of America). is Extremes are therefore common, but the city has characteristics that increase the coldness: it is located far from the sea and therefore does not benefit from the regulatory effect of water, and is in the “bowl”, a “combi”. “That’s right. .

In the absence of air,the windthe wind Cold collects and gets trapped.

In January 1968, all the conditions led to extreme cold: freezing air along the northeast flow, no air over land and no ice that accelerated the cooling.

An even lower temperature, -41 °C on 17 January 1985, was recorded at the mouth, but was not officially recognized by it. Weather reportWeather report France

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