10 May 1981: Mitterrand elected

At 8 pm the result appeared on television: François Mitterrand was elected President, and Paris celebrated at the Bastille in the rain. The real weather of that evening.

The weather that day

• 12.3 to 15.4 °C, rain, 11.1 mm of rain.
• A south wind, 12 km/h on average, and pressure from 1001 to 1003 hPa.

The sky

• Sunrise at 06:16, sunset at 21:19.
• The moon: first quarter, 48% lit.

Its name

Cataractane: Rain, 11.1 mm of it, over 17 hours, under a first-quarter moon.

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