Maut is a French village located at an altitude of 950 m, 5 km from the border with Switzerland. The place is known as “little Siberia”, that is, an area with an extremely harsh climate. October in Mutt did not bring a single night with a minimum temperature below 0 degrees, the first time in 140 years of weather records.

The comparison with the cool October months says it all: there were years with 28 frosty nights in the tenth month.

The village of Maut, with a population of 1,000, is located in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region and is the coldest town in the Hexagon with an absolute minimum of -36.7 recorded in 1985. The average number of frosty days is more than 170 per year, so on average one out of two days the temperature drops below 0 degrees.

Well, October was unusually warm across France, with maximum temperatures over 33 degrees and average temperatures even 7-8 degrees above normal. October was the warmest on record for weather in France.

The region was so warm in the second half of October that average temperatures were higher than the mid-August 70s, when summers weren’t as hot as they are now.

In Maute, the absolute minimum ever recorded in October was -14.3C, but there was NOT ONE freezing night last month. The village has a very special microclimate, which means that in extreme cases the difference between the minimum night temperature and the maximum during the day can exceed 35 degrees.

Here, even in July and August, it was -4 degrees, and the absolute maximum is +36 degrees. Since the climate is extreme, it is exceptionally 18-20 degrees Celsius in January and 25-28 degrees Celsius in October.

Maute is also a place that receives a lot of rain and snow, with an average annual rainfall of 1,600 mm, with a maximum in December (snow) and a minimum in September (rain).

Sources: Guardian, Ouest france

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