Record heat and historic rainfall in Monaco in 2022

IMSEE has just published its "Weather Focus 2022". With two heatwaves and a significant rainfall deficit, the past year has set a sad temperature record.

We felt it and the figures published by IMSEE this month are there to prove it. It was particularly hot last summer in the south of France and, consequently, in Monaco.
Up to 35.1 degrees, according to the temperatures recorded by the Jardin exotique weather station. A dark record reached on 20 July 2022, in the middle of a heat wave.

"The temperature has been rising steadily over the past decade, with a deviation from climatic normality* of 1.4°C [for an annual average of 18.2°C, editor's note]. It is the highest recorded since 1963", notes the Monegasque Institute of Statistics in its "Focus Météo 2022".

Proof, if any were needed, of the absolute necessity of a proactive policy in favour of the environment, such as that to which the Principality is committed, guided by the will of its Sovereign Prince.
Published for the eleventh consecutive year, the IMSEE report analyses the Principality's meteorological conditions, according to the data collected by the Exotic Garden weather station, completed by the sunshine and wind data recorded by the Environment Department at the Oceanographic Museum. And the conclusion is clear. "Each decade is warmer than the last.