Les Déserts () is a commune in the

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department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

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in south-eastern

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Geography

Climate

Les Déserts has a

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freez ...

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''Dfb'') closely bordering on a subarctic climate (''Dfc''). The average annual temperature in Les Déserts is . The average annual rainfall is with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Les Déserts was on 27 June 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 5 February 2012.

Geography

Climate

See also