EShe had been expected for several days. The drizzle, which fell during the night of Christmas Eve, allowed Paris to beat its historic rain record. In a press release, Météo-France indicates that the cumulative precipitation falling on the capital in 2024 amounts to 900.9 mm, thus beating by only a tenth the previous record of 900.8 mm established in 2000.
“In 2024, the soils remained wetter than normal for eight months, unheard of in more than thirty years,” specifies the press release from the meteorological institute. While the whole world traveled to the City of Lights for the Olympic Games, this year was particularly marked by many rainy days, with a peak in the fall. An autumn which also broke records, becoming “the wettest since 1986”, according to data provided by Météo-France.
One of the hottest years ever
If the Paris region was particularly rained on December 22 and 23 with a record in terms of soil humidity for the period, the current year about to end was “extraordinarily” humid over the entire period. 'Île-de-France. Besides Paris, other records were broken in France with more than 1,000 mm of precipitation on average across the country, an excess of around 15%.
2024 is among the 10 wettest years since 1959.
In a future climate, precipitation totals would remain very variable. […] Read more
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