Sometimes I look at continental weather forecasts out of curiosity and
happened to look at meteo.fr just now.

Amazingly, areas of France (Burgundy) forecast to reach almost 25C
earlier this week are struggling to reach 5C now. Such wild
temperature swings seem more akin to spring than autumn - I can
remember this sort of thing happening often in April, but never in
October.

If only the weather systems had been 200 or 300 miles further
northeast and we'd had an Indian summer this week rather than the
endless gloom...

Nick