Signal de Botrange signal and the house Baraque Michel. Signal de Botrange experiences stronger winds than the centre of Belgium. Average and extreme temperatures are usually lower than at any other place in Belgium: the minimum temperature recorded (-25.6 °C) does not, however, exceed the absolute record (-30.1 °C), observed in the valley of the Lomme, at Rochefort during a temperature inversion. In winter, for three months, on average, the average temperature remains below 0 °C. Rainfall is much greater than most of the rest of the country, at an annual average of 1450 mm compared with 800 mm in Uccle. Rainfall is
Mount Baigura Mount Baigura Mount Baigura, "Baïgura", "Baygoura" or "Baighoura" (el. 897 m./2943 ft.) is a mountain of the inner French Basque Country. Transmitters are set up near its summit. The leisure center ("base de loisir") at Baigura, on the road from Hélette to Louhossoa (in the commune of Mendionde), organizes paragliding activity on the northern slope of the mountain. The name "Baigura" is related to modern Euskara (Basque) "ibar" 'valley', "ibai" 'river' and "guren" 'limit' and means 'the end of valley'. Mount Baigura is the highest point of a small isolated pre-pyrenean massif inside the French Basque Country in the southwest