Cessy
Geography
Climate
Cessy has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Cessy is 10.9 °C (51.6 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,063.2 mm (41.86 in) with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 20.5 °C (68.9 °F), and lowest in January, at around 1.8 °C (35.2 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Cessy was 37.8 °C (100.0 °F) on 13 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −16.3 °C (2.7 °F) on 1 February 2003.
| Climate data for Cessy (1991−2020 normals, extremes 2002−present) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 15.4 (59.7) |
19.5 (67.1) |
22.4 (72.3) |
26.5 (79.7) |
32.8 (91.0) |
35.5 (95.9) |
37.6 (99.7) |
37.8 (100.0) |
30.7 (87.3) |
26.8 (80.2) |
21.4 (70.5) |
16.0 (60.8) |
37.8 (100.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 4.9 (40.8) |
6.3 (43.3) |
11.2 (52.2) |
16.2 (61.2) |
19.6 (67.3) |
24.6 (76.3) |
26.7 (80.1) |
25.9 (78.6) |
21.5 (70.7) |
15.7 (60.3) |
9.6 (49.3) |
5.4 (41.7) |
15.6 (60.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 1.8 (35.2) |
2.5 (36.5) |
6.4 (43.5) |
10.8 (51.4) |
14.3 (57.7) |
18.7 (65.7) |
20.5 (68.9) |
19.9 (67.8) |
16.1 (61.0) |
11.5 (52.7) |
6.3 (43.3) |
2.4 (36.3) |
10.9 (51.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −1.2 (29.8) |
−1.4 (29.5) |
1.7 (35.1) |
5.3 (41.5) |
8.9 (48.0) |
12.9 (55.2) |
14.3 (57.7) |
13.9 (57.0) |
10.8 (51.4) |
7.4 (45.3) |
2.9 (37.2) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
6.3 (43.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −13.9 (7.0) |
−16.3 (2.7) |
−11.0 (12.2) |
−6.0 (21.2) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
2.6 (36.7) |
6.7 (44.1) |
6.3 (43.3) |
1.6 (34.9) |
−3.4 (25.9) |
−10.0 (14.0) |
−14.7 (5.5) |
−16.3 (2.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 106.0 (4.17) |
75.8 (2.98) |
77.9 (3.07) |
66.7 (2.63) |
87.0 (3.43) |
85.4 (3.36) |
81.1 (3.19) |
86.5 (3.41) |
63.0 (2.48) |
101.6 (4.00) |
110.1 (4.33) |
122.1 (4.81) |
1,063.2 (41.86) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 11.2 | 8.4 | 9.3 | 8.1 | 11.3 | 9.3 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 7.2 | 9.6 | 9.3 | 10.8 | 112.5 |
| Source: Météo-France | |||||||||||||
Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 509 | — |
| 1975 | 770 | +6.09% |
| 1982 | 1,068 | +4.78% |
| 1990 | 1,763 | +6.47% |
| 1999 | 2,283 | +2.91% |
| 2007 | 3,368 | +4.98% |
| 2012 | 4,342 | +5.21% |
| 2017 | 4,856 | +2.26% |
| Source: INSEE | ||
Compact Muon Solenoid
One of the primary points of interest in the quiet community of Cessy, France is the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, located 100 meters below ground at a site on the south-eastern edge of the village. CMS is a high-energy particle physics experiment which observes the result of high energy proton-proton collisions of the CERN laboratory's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator.
Personalities
Tim Berners-Lee lived on Rue de la Mairie in Cessy when he, with Robert Cailliau, invented the World Wide Web.
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024 https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8288323?geo=COM-01071.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Fiche Climatologique Statistiques 1991-2020 et records" (PDF). Météo-France. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 August 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968 Archived 26 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine, INSEE
- ^ "CMS home page". Archived from the original on 15 November 2008. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
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