The scores exploded. “Unprecedented” in the department. Certainly, Cantal has experienced, for several days, a truce in the series of rainy days which extended from the beginning of September until the beginning of October. Downpours which had consequences. Some professions fear lower performance. Rain impacts outdoor professions, such as public works or cultivation.
“Over the last twelve months (from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024, 3,710 mm of rain fell in Falgoux (compared to the annual average of 2,081 mm), 3,797 mm in Mandailles and 3,392 mm in Lioran. For me it is unprecedented in Cantal, such a quantity of water, at least on the reliefs” Laurent Garcelon, president of the Infoclimat association and a Cantalien weather enthusiast, noted the excess water throughout the department. particularly marked at altitude. “The contrast is all the more marked as there have been warnings of drought in recent years,” he continues. For him, this is the natural variability of the weather. changing, the trends do not change direction and the one that concerns us fits well, in the long term, “always in a modification of the climate which tends to be warmer and a little drier”.
