Mouthe

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Mouthe (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. The town is known for having the coldest recorded temperature in France.[2]

Geography

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Church of the Assumption of Mouthe (1732–1749), designed by J.-P. Galezot

The town is located Script error: No such module "convert". south of Pontarlier in the Jura Mountains on the Swiss border. The source of the river Doubs is Script error: No such module "convert". from Mouthe.

Climate

Mouthe, is located in a region of the Jura Mountains known as "Little Siberia" (La Petite Sibérie) and snowfalls are not uncommon as late as the third week of March.[2] Although the average low temperature for January in the town ranges from about -6 °C to -10 °C, the low temperature descended to -36.7 °C (-34.1 °F) on 13 January 1968, and fell further, to -41.2 °C (-42.2 °F) on 17 January 1985.[2]

Due to its elevation and its location in a coomb, the diurnal temperature variation is high and Mouthe features a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb, according to the Köppen climate classification), with an average annual precipitation of Script error: No such module "convert"..

Summers are warm and winters are very cold and snowy and there is no dry season.

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1981-2010 climate normals

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The village and its church served as the location for the film Nobody Else But You (2011).

Population

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See also

References

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