In Corsica, in January, the thermometer seems to be showing lower temperatures than usual. It remains to be seen whether this is a simple hobby or a more lasting trend. We went to ask Météo France.
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“I really should have taken two pairs of gloves…”
Last night, at Armand Cesari, the public responded to support the Sporting Club de Bastia against Nice, in the Coupe de France. But in the stands, at half-time, some regretted having chosen to come by motorbike, while the cold was becoming more and more bitter.
And yet, no one was caught as a traitor.
For several days, in Corsica, in the interior but also by the sea, it has been cold. More than usual.
“During the night of January 12, in Ajaccio, a minimum temperature of 8.3 was recorded. The following night, the barometer dropped to 1.8 degrees…”, we are told at Météo France.
“In Ajaccio, we spent three or four days below seasonal norms, by 1 or 2 degrees. And in Bastia, we observed eight days in a row cooler than usual, sometimes 3 or 4 degrees below normal we are usually around 14 degrees during the day, and here we were between 9 and 10. And in the mountains, at the A Maniccia station, on January 13, we recorded – 12.8 degrees, the lowest temperature recorded yesterday in Corsica. remind Météo France forecasters.
The feeling of falling was brutal
However, the island has not entered a long freezing winter: “the feeling of falling was brutal, certainly, but it was also because we were coming out of six days where, as is often the case, we were above seasonal norms. On January 9, in Ajaccio, it was 21 degrees…”
In the end, the cold snap should not last long, and this winter should not really go against the trend which is becoming more established each year: “our forecasts give us a return to 2 degrees above normal from January 17, and it should be like this until the 28th, the date up to which we already have data. This increase will compensate for the blow of current cold, and this winter again, we risk being still above previous averages”.
