Claim 0e75c602Checked 09 Jul 2026
Partly True/FalseOn the truth scale
“The sky in Brussels is grey.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
Brussels can be cloudy and overcast, so calling the sky “grey” is not baseless, but it is an exaggeration if read as a general description of the city’s climate. The Royal Meteorological Institute’s 2011 Brussels-Uccle report recorded 1,781.9 hours of sunshine that year versus a normal 1,545 hours, and it described the spring and autumn as very exceptionally/remarkably sunny, which shows Brussels does not have persistently grey skies. (meteo.be) Sources: Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (IRM/KMI), 2011 annual climate report for Brussels-Uccle (`https://www.meteo.be/fr/climat/climat-de-la-belgique/bilans-climatologiques/2011-2015/2011/2011`); IRM/KMI monthly normals for Uccle (`https://www.meteo.be/fr/unpublish/climat-general-en-belgique/normales-mensuelles`).
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John Major famously said that his heart sank every time he left Britain…
Yeah, I don’t understand that. I don’t get that. I mean, it depends. I don’t like going to Brussels, because it’s a horrible, crime-ridden dump: the sky is grey, the buildings are grey, the people are grey, it’s ghastly! But every month when I go to Strasbourg, a little bit of me is still quite excited about going there. Because I love it.
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