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Cessy (French pronunciation: [sesi]) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. The area was first inhabited by two farming families in the eleventh century, and as the town has grown its agricultural heritage has remained a significant feature, with the populated area surrounded by a vast expanse of fields and an annual agricultural festival.
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Cessy | |
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Commune | |
 Town hall | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Cessy  | |
  Cessy  Cessy | |
| Coordinates: 46°19′09″N 6°04′12″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Ain |
| Arrondissement | Gex |
| Canton | Gex |
| Intercommunality | CA Pays de Gex |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Christophe Bouvier[1] |
| Area 1 | 6.39 km2 (2.47 sq mi) |
| Population | 4,808 |
| • Density | 750/km2 (1,900/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 01071 /01170 |
| Elevation | 496–583 m (1,627–1,913 ft) (avg. 526 m or 1,726 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Geography
Climate
Cessy has a 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) | |||||||||||||
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| 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) |
| Average high °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) |
| Average low °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[3] | |||||||||||||
Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 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[4] | ||
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.[5]
Personalities
Tim Berners-Lee lived on Rue de la Mairie in Cessy when he, with Robert Cailliau, invented the World Wide Web.
See also
- Communes of the Ain department
- Compact Muon Solenoid
References
- "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- "Populations légales 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2021.
- "Fiche Climatologique Statistiques 1991-2020 et records" (PDF). Météo-France. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
- Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- "CMS home page". Archived from the original on 2008-11-15. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
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[de] Cessy
Cessy ist eine französische Gemeinde mit 4808 Einwohnern (Stand 1. Januar 2019) im Département Ain in der Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Sie gehört zum Kanton Gex im Arrondissement Gex und ist Mitglied im Gemeindeverband Pays de Gex Agglo.- [en] Cessy
[ru] Сесси
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