The data recorded by the Météo France station in Beaucouzé, near Angers (Maine-et-Loire) are definitive. Since the beginning of the year it has collected only 241.5 mm of precipitation, concentrated in 49 days of rain. The average over a normal year – average calculated in the years 1991-2020 – is 709 mm with rainfall of almost 111 days. It therefore rains less and less in 2022 compared to the reference period.
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While it didn’t rain much in 2022 – for the moment – it wasn’t quite like that in 1994. That year, the Beaucouzé station recorded a total of 962 mm of rainfall. With a record of 76.8 mm recorded on July 24th. As for the number of rainy days, it was in 2000 that it peaked at 142 days.
The Loire at its worst level on 2 September
5 mm of precipitation should fall every day until the end of the year for 2022 to reach the average precipitation calculated in 1991 and 2020. Just think that this will not happen and so much the better for the soil, who would not be in any case. able to absorb such quantities of water.
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It was on 2 September that the Loire reached its lowest flow of the summer, at 102 m³ per second, at Montjean station. After a short climb above 120 m3/ sec between 19 and 22, from 23 September it dropped to about 110 m³ / sec.
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