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03/07/2009, 10:50 Clair Joined on 23/08/2004 Real Virtual French Person & Moderator - Lot (46) Posts 11,500 Re: House Near The Montage Noire  Yvonne_Calling wrote: The nearest big town is Mazermet and I can't find any weather history for this location. You can find some weather history about Lagarrigue (NW of Mazamet) here: http://meteo81.free.fr/station.html (click on the year at the top RHS and choose a value at the bottom of the screen). Clair The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. Paradise Lost - John Milton    Report

03/07/2009, 11:05 Ian Joined on 04/07/2007 Revel, Haute Garonne Posts 411 Re: House Near The Montage Noire Just read the local freebie paper/magazine "Coulour Lauragais" and they have an article this month on the Montagnes Noires - including a bit on its high rainfall. Right in the heart of the mountain range the annual rainfall is approx 1,500mm - this is about twice Manchester (UK) levels and a little less than three times Essex/Cambridgeshire levels. So it is wet ... thats why they build the big reservoirs here! We experienced about 700mm per year on the Western fringes of the Montagnes - and this seemed to fall on fewer days than the frequently incessant drizzle of back home (UK). This we found to be just fine. Holiday and Property Guide for Nice and the Cote d'Azur    Report

03/07/2009, 13:50 Polly Joined on 23/08/2004 Rural Cambridgeshire, Aude (11) Posts 44 Re: House Near The Montage Noire We live in the Montagne Noire, South of Mazamet, at Miraval Cabardes  in Aude .400 meteres altitude.  I think the weather varies which side of the Mountain you are.  Here we get approx one week of snow, and some rain.  It is cold and sometimes misty.  However, in the Summer, the evenings are cool for sleeping - It is a beautiful place to be.....    Report

03/07/2009, 15:33 Quillan Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 6,259 Re: House Near The Montage Noire I know of a couple of people who have moved away from Montage Noire on account of bad weather. There is a figure that's banded around about SW France having 300 days of sunshine. If you dig deep to find the place they are talking about then its Montpelier where this was recorded. I live in or on the next mountain range south and so getter better weather but we still don't get anywhere near 300 days of sunshine, to be honest its more like 150 to 170 days of sunshine per year. Winters are hard with some snow (we are 385M altitude and the snowline is about 600M) but temps averaging -15 and at worse -18 but they are short. February to May in normally rains, its very damp and not much good for those with arthritis and rheumatism. Yet if you cross over to the other side then within a few kilometers the landscape changes dramatically and its much hotter and drier, rather like Spain. Mind you over the last couple of days the outside air temp has registered between 32 and 38 deg in the shade and in August we have hit 42 deg. If you really are not sure then my best tip is forget buying a house, go and rent one for a year in that area and see how you get on. Compared to the UK renting here is as cheap as chips, you get a much bigger bang for your bucks. http://www.chambresdhote.com    Report

05/07/2009, 9:18 dave21478 Joined on 04/09/2006 Tarn Posts 633 Re: House Near The Montage Noire I live pretty close to Vabre, and the weather is one of the reasons I am looking to move. Most places get fog at some time, but here the fog is often very thick and will last for several days on end. Not being able to see more than 50 meters for up to a week can be very depressing indeed. The last couple of weeks have been nice weather, with temperatures in the 20`s and have touched 30 at times, but the period from November 2008 up till May this year was very grim indeed.Cold, wet and miserable. Im originally from the north of Scotland, so bad weather is not a surprise to me, but that period here was worse than anything I have seen in Scotland for a long time. The previous winter was pretty similar too. As for snow - we tend to get it a fair bit, but it doesnt last. This year it snowed several times, leaving between 2 and 15cm each time, which then melted over the following few days, leaving everywhere a sodden, slushy mess. Roads were rarely affected, and certainly not for any length of time. the most common probles were due to fallen trees blocking roads. The countryside is very green here, compared with places further south due to higher rainfall. There are many, many places around this area where you could be forgiven for thinking you were in Scotland, rather than France as the views are so similar. Yet, a brief drive from Mazamet over the mountains towards Carcassonne reveals a completely dfferent countryside, much drier for a start.    Report

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