Welcome to the AM 1575 News Weather Forecast for Friday, May 22, 2026, available online, on podcast via AI chatbot, and on Medium Waves at 1575 kHz. From Paris, I am Rachel Costa.
Weather Forecast – Paris, Monaco Monte-Carlo, Milan, New York for Friday, May 22, 2026
Paris: A Grey Morning Giving Way to Warm Afternoon Showers
Forecasts for Friday, May 22, 2026, updated in the early hours by expert Regis Crepet, indicate a day of unsettled conditions, though temperatures remain unusually mild for the season. Reliability is rated as good. In the early morning Paris awakens under a thin veil of cloud, with temperatures around twenty‑two degrees and a gentle breeze from the south‑east at ten kilometres an hour. By mid‑day the sky becomes progressively cloudier, reaching a high of twenty‑nine degrees and feeling like thirty‑three, while gusts rise to twenty kilometres an hour and the air stays dry. The afternoon remains sunny enough to keep the UV index high, but chances of rain are nil. Evening sees the temperature dip to twenty‑five degrees, feeling twenty‑four, with light south‑east breezes at ten kilometres an hour and no precipitation. Nighttime brings a cooler twenty‑seven degrees, felt as seventeen, under clear skies and a calm ten kilometres an hour wind. Humidity stays moderate throughout the day, and the next two days look warmer, with Saturday climbing to thirty‑one degrees and Sunday staying around thirty degrees, signalling a brief spell of summer‑like heat.
Monaco Monte‑Carlo: Sun‑Soaked Afternoon with Gentle Sea Breezes
Monaco enjoys a bright sunny afternoon with the temperature climbing to twenty‑six degrees, feeling a scorching thirty‑five under the Mediterranean sun, while a gentle fifteen kilometres an hour breeze keeps the heat tolerable. The morning begins clear, with light clouds gathering later but no rain expected. Evening cools to twenty‑one degrees, feeling twenty‑three, as the sea breeze from the south‑east remains at fifteen kilometres an hour. Nighttime drops further to nineteen degrees, feeling eighteen, under mostly clear skies and the same calm wind. No precipitation is forecast for the whole day, and the UV index peaks at eight, indicating strong sun. The following days maintain similar pleasant conditions, with temperatures hovering in the low twenties and continued dry weather.
Milan: A Sunny Day Under a Subtropical High
According to the latest bulletin updated early this morning by expert Daniele Berlusconi of 3BMeteo, forecast reliability is high (80 to 90 percent), confirming the approach of an Atlantic disturbance. Milan wakes to a crisp twenty‑degrees morning, feeling twenty‑two, with a light southeast wind at five kilometres an hour and clear skies. By noon the temperature rises to twenty‑seven degrees, feeling thirty‑three, while the breeze stays gentle at five kilometres an hour from the southeast and no rain falls. The afternoon remains bright and dry, with temperatures climbing to thirty degrees and a mild southeast wind that occasionally gusts to fifteen kilometres an hour. Evening cools to twenty‑three degrees, feeling twenty‑two, under a calm sky as the wind shifts slightly southeast at ten kilometres an hour. Nighttime sees a comfortable twenty‑seven degrees, feeling twenty‑seven, with a light ten kilometres an hour breeze and clear skies. Humidity stays low, and the weekend promises continued sunshine with highs around thirty‑one degrees on Saturday and Sunday.
New York: Variable Clouds and Strong Winds Across the Day
New York experiences a mixed day with a high of eighteen degrees and a low of fourteen. The morning starts cool at fourteen degrees, feeling eleven under a brisk thirty‑five kilometres an hour northeast wind and occasional gusts up to twenty kilometres an hour, with light cloud cover and no rain. By afternoon the mercury rises to eighteen degrees, feeling twenty‑three as the sky becomes very cloudy and the wind shifts to a steady thirty kilometres an hour from the east, still dry. Evening brings a cooler thirteen degrees, feeling eleven, as the sky turns heavily clouded and wind eases to twenty‑five kilometres an hour from the southeast. Nighttime remains at thirteen degrees, feeling eleven, under a fully overcast sky with a gentle twenty‑five kilometres an hour east wind and no precipitation. The UV index peaks at eight in the afternoon, and humidity stays moderate. The outlook for the coming days shows a gradual warming trend, with temperatures climbing to twenty‑one degrees by Saturday and reaching twenty‑six degrees later in the week.
Rachel’s Weather Editorial — A Forecast of Overblown Doom
Another headline hails today’s “heatwave” as if the planet is on fire, yet the thermometer reads only a comfortable eighteen in New York and twenty‑six in Monaco. Have the editors forgotten that a warm May day is not, by default, a climate apocalypse?
I checked the figures myself – Paris is a touch hotter than usual, Milan is basking under a high‑pressure ridge, and New York’s clouds are merely rearranging themselves. No one bothered to ask the meteorologists if these modest shifts merit a doomsday narrative, so the story writes itself.
One wonders whether the media’s appetite for catastrophe is driven by a genuine concern for the climate or simply by the need for screaming headlines. If every slight breeze or fleeting cloud is blamed on climate change, the public will soon be allergic to any real scientific discourse.
In the end, we are left with a spectacle: a chorus of alarmists pointing to ordinary weather and proclaiming the end of the world, while the sky above Paris simply clears for a few more hours. Perhaps the only thing changing faster than the weather is the overuse of the word “crisis”.
Koan of the Day
A monk asked Zhaozhou: “Does the sky over Paris possess the nature of sun and cloud?”
“Yes, of sun and cloud,” replied Zhaozhou.
The monk, unsatisfied, asked: “Then why does it wake grey and overcast, with temperatures mild out of season?”
And Zhaozhou: “Because weather is not a fixed veil but a breath that alternates grey with light, revealing impermanence in every gust.”
Another monk asked Zhaozhou: “Does the sky over Paris possess the nature of sun and cloud?”
“No,” replied Zhaozhou. “Every day has the nature of change.”
The monk insisted: “But stable and variable, are these not a contradiction?”
And Zhaozhou: “The wise man does not dance in the caprice of autumn, where the sun is merely a fleeting guest among persistent clouds, but knows not to cling to any forecast.”
And that is today’s weather.
Sign-off.
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