Draft:Climate of Bas-Rhin

The climate of Bas-Rhin is a semi-continental oceanic climate, with dry and cold winters and stormy and hot summers, due to the protection of the moutains of the Vosges. The annual average temperate is 10.4°C in the plain (Entzheim) and 7°C in altitude. There is a heavy annual thermic amplitude (30 °C). There is usually 700 mm of rain per year.

Detailed Characteristics
The Bas-Rhin climate is one of the driest in France, however it doesn't have the most sun per year. This is due to the fact that Strasbourg has the most days of fog per years (67 days). Thebise from the North-East dries the air and offers verly low humidity due to it's continental origin, so much that humidity can be as low as 25% in any season, way less than the southern coastal departments of France.

Bas-Rhin has a semi-continental oceanic climate. Strasbourg is the city under 180m of altitude that gets the most snowfall (29 days per year).

Climate records
Established from data from Météo-France in the Strasbourg-Entzheim (airport) station, since 1923.  The Alsatian climate stays however less continental than that of Franche-Comté.

Climate change and it's consequences
The consequences of climate change are visible, with a significative diminution of snow days per year?

Since the cold 2012 winter, relatively warm winters followed. The 2019/2020 one was exceptionally devoid of snow, with a single snowfall in the end of winter (27th of February 2020) in Strasbourg.

However, the 2020/2021 winter broke the streak by offering 19 days of snow in Starsbourg. The department also had a record breaking. −13.4 °C in Strasbourg, −14.9 °C in Haguenau, −15.6 °C in Dambach and around −16 °C in Erckartswiller-SAPC the 11th of february 2021. The temperatures hadn't been that cold since the 2012 cold wave. The department had a historic snowfall the 14th and 15th january of that same year, with 22cm in the Strasbourg Airport and up to 25cm in Woerth/Morsbronn-les-Bains. It had not snowed that much since 2010.