Mont Aigoual
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The Mont Aigoual (alt: 1567 m) is the highest point of the Gard département, France. It is part of the Massif Central, and it is located within the Cévennes National Park. It is the last remaining weather station in France which is still inhabited by meteorologists.
Its prominence is 730 m.
Severe weather conditions are sometimes recorded:
- Maximum Temperature : 28.2 °C in 1947;
- Minimum Temperature : -28 °C in 1956;
- Maximum wind speed : 335 km/h on November 6th 1966;
- Maximum rain in 24 hours: 607 mm from 6 p.m. on 30th to 6 p.m. on October 31st 1963;
- Maximum snow during one year : 10.24 metres;
- Frozen days: 144;
- High temperature days (> 25 °C) : 0;
- Rain days: 170;
- High wind days (> 16 m/s) : 265;
- Fog days: 241;
- Days with snow: 116.
It is also the place in France where rain is the heaviest.
When the sky is clear, it is possible to see the Mediterranean Sea, the Pyrenees, but also the Alps and Mont Blanc in particular.
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