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Paris's main Asian district, the Quartier Asiatique, also locally called la Triangle de Choisy or la petite Asie ("Little Asia"), is located in the southeast of the arrondissement. The following can be found in this area: Les Olympiades, Super-Italie and various other towers among the tallest in Paris
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.
The Butte-aux-Cailles (French pronunciation: [byt o kaj] is a hilltop neighbourhood of Paris, France, [1] located in Paris' south-eastern 13th arrondissement. The name of the hill could be translated as " quail hill", but it actually originates from its former landowner Pierre Caille, who bought a vineyard here in 1543. [ 2 ]
The organisation was established by decree in June 1993 and is a department of the Ministry of Transportation. It is headquartered in Paris but many domestic operations have been decentralised to Toulouse. Its budget of around €300 million is funded by state grants, aeronautic royalties and sale of commercial services.
Lowest air pressure: 25 December 1821 Boulogne sur mer 947.1 hPa. On 28 January 1905 values of 31.04 inches of mercury (1,051 hPa) in Biarritz, and 31.01 inches of mercury (1,050 hPa) in Brest are listed in the Met Office Daily Weather Report. [189] On the 29 January 1905, the atmospheric pressure reached a value of 1049.3 hPa in Paris. [190] [191]
The agency warned of wind speeds up to 130 km/h (81 mph; 70 kn) in the northern part of France on 13 February. [21] [22] The Spanish meteorological agency named Jorge next, warning of seas 4 to 5 m (13 to 16 ft) high on 29 February through 2 March and snow around 1,000 m (3,300 ft). [23]
The 2022–23 European windstorm season was the deadliest and costliest European windstorm season on record, mainly because of the impact in northern Libya of Storm Daniel, which became the deadliest and costliest medicane ever recorded as well as the deadliest tropical or subtropical system worldwide since 2008.
Gaspar Frutuoso wrote Saudades da Terra, the first history of the Azores and Macaronesia, in the 1580s.. A small number of alleged hypogea (underground structures carved into rocks) have been identified on the islands of Corvo, Santa Maria, and Terceira by Portuguese archaeologist Nuno Ribeiro, who speculated that they might date back 2,000 years, implying a human presence on the island before ...