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The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
According to data collected by Météo-France, Toulon is the second city (after Marseille) in metropolitan France with the most sunshine per year: an average of 2,854.1 hours a year from 1991 to 2020, compared with 2,695 hours a year for Nice and 2,472 hours for Perpignan. [24]
Occurring or varying in the course of a solar day (i.e. daily; completed within and recurring every 24 hours), or during the local daytime. [2] diurnal variation. Also diurnal range. The range between the maximum and minimum values of a meteorological quantity (e.g. temperature, pressure, relative humidity) observed during the course of a solar ...
Given the theoretical maximum of daytime duration for a given location, there is also a practical consideration at which point the amount of daylight is sufficient to be treated as a "sunshine hour". "Bright" sunshine hours represent the total hours when the sunlight is stronger than a specified threshold, as opposed to just "visible" hours.
Frost days are quite rare but on 10 February 1986 the temperature was raised by −7.5 °C. Conversely, on 7 July 1982 a temperature of 40.1 °C set a record. The average sunshine is 2,899.3 hours per year with a peak of 373.8 hours in July.
Bridges and vehicles were submerged in affected areas as well; the Vhembe District being the worst affected. The province received 150mm of rain in less than 16 hours. [49] After a two-day operation, Rescue SA uncovered the body of a 35-year-old man who had drowned in the Blyde River.
Lucile Randon DC (French: [ly.sil ʁɑ̃.dɔ̃]; 11 February 1904 – 17 January 2023), also known as Sister André (French: Sœur André), was a French supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 118 years, 340 days, was the world's oldest verified living person following the death of Kane Tanaka on 19 April 2022.
Days in winter are not as short as in the northern part of the continent, the average hours of daylight in December, January and February is 10.3 hours [8] (for comparison: London [9] or Moscow [10] or Warsaw [11] – about 8 hours). The shortest day of the year – 21 December – sunrise is around 7:00 and sunset is around 17:00.