The year 2024 was the hottest in the world, but also very rainy in France. Exceptionally rainy even: Paris broke its annual rain record and many municipalities recorded record rainfall, reports Météo France. Very good news for the level of groundwater, which was able to recharge during the autumn.
In Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), it rained 1,105.3 mm, an excess to date of 43%. This value is the highest ever recorded since 1957, the year of the first measurements in the town. The previous record was 1,104.2 mm and dated back to 1960.
Same thing in Le Mans (Sarthe), which measured an excess of 42% with 960.5 mm of precipitation. A record since 1945.
Île-de-France in the rain in 2024
The west is not the only part of France affected. It rained 1,053.7 mm in Toussus-le-Noble (Yvelines), an excess of almost 60%. For this municipality, the previous record was 899.8 mm in 2001, a difference of more than 15 cm.
Not far from there, in Roissy-en-France (Val-d'Oise), 965.5 cm of precipitation were recorded, for an excess of 42%. Still in Île-de-France, in Melun (Seine-et-Marne), it rained 993.9 mm, an excess to date of 54%. Unheard of since records began in 1947.
Further south, 905.2 mm of rain fell in Blois (Loir-et-Cher), an excess of 44% and the highest value recorded since 1990. Some 1,147.9 mm were recorded in Brive- la-Gaillarde (Corrèze), a surplus of only 17% but a record year since 1987 all the same. The previous record was set in 2023 with 1,050.7 mm of rain.
