Drought

The strange record drought in France this winter

There was a strange record drought that occurred in France this winter in which Meteo FranceMeteo France Météo-France is the official service of meteorology and climatology in France. claim that there was no rain in France from the 21st of January 2023 to the 20th of February. I say strange because although it was dry at some sites across France, notably in the south, many other places did record some rain during that period as you can see from the chart below.
Meteo France goes onto explain “we speak of a day without rain when the total aggregate precipitation over France is less than 1 mm”. All that you can assume from what they say, is that they like the UKMOUKMO The Meteorological Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, they have some kind of gridded data series in which the average precipitation for the whole of France for that particular period was less than 1 mm. I’m not going to tot up all the rainfalls totals from WMOWMO The World Meteorological Organisation is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics. block #07, but I’d wager without allowing for extent the average would be higher than 1 mm.

April 30, 2023

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November 2022 – Rainfall

Dear Diary,
A number of wet spots across IONAIONA Islands Of North Atlantic. Yes I know there's an island called Iona, but this is so I don't have to use the term 'British Isles' when referring to the whole of Ireland and the UK., but the wettest of them was Valentia with 348 mm of rain. The north of Scotland had quite a dry month in contrast to parts of Aberdeenshire which were very wet. The above average rain across the south should have finally but paid to the dry spell. The 32 mm at Wick should be treated with some caution as I only received 71% of their observations.