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Météo-France is the official French meteorological administration, also offering services to Andorra and Monaco. It has the powers of the state and can exercise them in relation to meteorology. Météo-France is in charge of observing, studying, and forecasting weather and monitoring snowpack.
Climate zoning for mainland France in 2020, drawn up by Météo-France. The climate of France is the statistical distribution of conditions in the Earth's atmosphere over the national territory, based on the averages and variability of relevant quantities over a given period, the standard reference period defined by the World Meteorological Organization being 30 years.
Autoroutes are often given a name, even if these are not very used: A1 is the autoroute du Nord (Northern motorway).; A4 is the autoroute de l'Est (Eastern motorway).; A6 and A7 are autoroutes du Soleil (Motorways of the Sun), as both lead from northern France to the sunny beach resorts of southern France.
Collectivity Extreme Maximum Extreme Minimum Temperature Location Temperature Location French Polynesia: 37.8 °C (100.0 °F) Atuona: 8 °C (46 °F)
In the end, these approaches came to nothing and France decided to "go it alone". [4] Decimal time was introduced in the decree of 5 October 1793 under which the day was divided into 10 "decimal hours", the "hour" into 100 " decimal minutes" and the "decimal minute" into 100 "decimal seconds". The "decimal hour" corresponded to 2 hr 24 min, the ...