In Paris, less than 10 hours of sunshine throughout the month of November

Zero minutes of sunshine on November 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Same thing on November 5, no better on the 8th and 12th… The clemency of this Thursday morning appears almost as the exception – welcome – which confirms the rule. The figures recorded in recent days at the Paris-Montsouris meteorological station confirm the feeling of ambient gloom: the sun seems to have disappeared this November above the heads of Parisians.

Since the start of this particularly gloomy month, the Montsouris station has recorded a total sunshine duration of 9.49 hours. That is to say a drop of 86% compared to seasonal norms, which are calculated over a period going from 1991 to 2020 – the cumulative normal being, on average, 69.8 hours. The month of October, for example, saw 9.57 hours of overall sunshine. The figure was 133.24 hours in September.

According to Info Climat's readings, only the day of Monday, November 4 allowed the solar star to be remembered fondly by Parisians with, alone, 8.16 hours of sunshine. If this month of November is all gray in Paris, it is nevertheless very dry. The level of precipitation recorded at the Montsouris station is only 1.4 mm since the start of the month, 131 mm in October.

And the next few days should not, a prioriallow us to take out the sunglasses. We should therefore expect a generally overcast horizon on Friday, with scattered clouds expected throughout the day.