“A period of Parisians” … Understand crap, rotten and depressing. In the bunches, with friends or even in the office, conversations from the start of the year in Marseille, and even more since spring, regularly tour the weather which is noticed by its rain record and a historic sunshine deficit. A subject which usually is not one in Marseille, more used to the beautiful than in the low cloud ceiling.
“I wanted to pretend to be summer yesterday by going to swim and staying read at the beach, result I am sick,” said Manon bitter. “It is depressing to open your shutters in the morning and see a time as a Parisian,” marives the young thirties. A feeling confirmed by Paul Marquis, a meteorologist who notably animates the account@Weather_du_13, Who notices: “It’s a daily subject, my friends, my family, only talks to me about that”, before illustrating their words in figures.
France upside down
“According to the marignane weather station statements installed in 1920, a month of March had never been rainy, with a surplus of 500 %. “The corollary to this is a historic sunshine deficit, with” 434 hours of sun only between January 1 and March 31. Unheard of for thirty-four years, ”says Paul Marquis. And if we add the 73 hours of sun accumulated during the first half of April, the total is hardly better and has a deficit since the start of the year of 90 hours of sun compared to 2024 and 120 hours compared to 2023, According to climate info data. This is almost 30 % less sunshine. What become fada.
More worrying, this tendency to “complicated spring has been around for two/three years. We chain three weeks of bad weather for a dry week, while usual is rather the opposite, “observes the meteorologist. A phenomenon that is not limited that in the spring, although this season is conducive to notice it.
The fault of an anticyclone that has been rare since “October 2023”, traces Paul Marquis. “Even during the summer of 2024, the average pressures remained rather low”. And this absence of anticyclone promotes “the southern wind, the Sirocco, which brings the sandy rains of the Sahara and comes with this milky sky”. Worse, for the Marseillais quick to be so proud of the usual sweetness of life in Provence: northern France and Europe has experienced drier and sunny time than here. Valencienne (North) has more hours of the sun than Marseille. “The map of France is reversed,” says the meteorologist.
Umbrella parasols
Suddenly, at the terraces of cafes, the parasols are out, but they are not used to shelter the sun. “We are fed up”, Grole Maria who indicates that she came to take food complementary, in particular vitamin D, which naturally creates the body with exposure to the sun. Again this Wednesday, shorts and seasons dresses stayed on the cupboards. Under a Breton burnt, the thermometer does not exceed 15 ° C. A temperature worthy of February which surprises tourists or newcomers. Like Théo, landed in February from Brussels with his partner to settle in the basket, and “who did not expect that”.
Meteorological puppet which should not change immediately. You can repack your sunbathing desires for Easter. “Time will remain disturbed until the end of April and I find it hard to believe that a dry and stable time returns for May, which will however be drier,” predicts Paul Marquis on his tendencies of means. Before announcing the color: “Like in recent years, it will be necessary to wait mid-June for summer to settle down. »»
