Here we are just on the Dordogne, right in the middle between the
Auvergne and the coast, and it's horrible, cold, wet, nasty little cold
breeze, and no respite in the offing for the rest of the week. It's
usually really nice this time of year and sometimes really, really hot.
There have been flash floods and disastrous storms all over the southern
half of France in this week. What's stuck and how can it be shifted?

grrrrrr.

--
Kate B

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we suffered three months of horrendous weather in Portugal from Jan to march
I found opening another bottle or two of red was most helpful

cheers

Mike
"Kate Brown" wrote in message
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Here we are just on the Dordogne, right in the middle between the Auvergne
and the coast, and it's horrible, cold, wet, nasty little cold breeze, and
no respite in the offing for the rest of the week. It's usually really
nice this time of year and sometimes really, really hot. There have been
flash floods and disastrous storms all over the southern half of France in
this week. What's stuck and how can it be shifted?

grrrrrr.

--
Kate B

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On 15 June, 14:04, "flybywire" wrote:
we suffered three months of horrendous weather in Portugal from Jan to march
I found opening another bottle or two of red was most helpful

cheers

Mike"Kate Brown" wrote in message

...



Here we are just on the Dordogne, right in the middle between the Auvergne
and the coast, and it's horrible, cold, wet, nasty little cold breeze, and
no respite in the offing for the rest of the week. *It's usually really
nice this time of year and sometimes really, really hot. There have been
flash floods and disastrous storms all over the southern half of France in
this week. *What's stuck and how can it be shifted?

grrrrrr.

--
Kate B

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Same here in the Correze. I think it's the beginning of an onward
(and cooling) trend, personally, and don't expect it to improve any
time soon. Maybe a bit more settled in July and August, but there
wont be any extended, extreme heat, particularly for us in the west.

Kate. if you aren't already aware, there's quite a good French meteo
discussion group here, which I keep up with:

http://forums.infoclimat.fr/

CK

On Jun 15, 1:47*pm, Natsman wrote:
On 15 June, 14:04, "flybywire" wrote:



we suffered three months of horrendous weather in Portugal from Jan to march
I found opening another bottle or two of red was most helpful

cheers

Mike"Kate Brown" wrote in message

...

Here we are just on the Dordogne, right in the middle between the Auvergne
and the coast, and it's horrible, cold, wet, nasty little cold breeze, and
no respite in the offing for the rest of the week. *It's usually really
nice this time of year and sometimes really, really hot. There have been
flash floods and disastrous storms all over the southern half of France in
this week. *What's stuck and how can it be shifted?

grrrrrr.

--
Kate B

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Same here in the Correze. *I think it's the beginning of an onward
(and cooling) trend, personally, and don't expect it to improve any
time soon. *Maybe a bit more settled in July and August, but there
wont be any extended, extreme heat, particularly for us in the west.

Kate. if you aren't already aware, there's quite a good French meteo
discussion group here, which I keep up with:

http://forums.infoclimat.fr/

CK

Incidentally is Catalonia getting some unusual (more changeable than
normal) weather ATM? Reason I ask is it's not a million miles away
from that part of France and I'm going there in three weeks. Guess
it's too far south for any real wet weather but maybe more
thunderstorms in the mountains than normal and a bit cooler?

Nick

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:04:34 +0100, "flybywire" wrote:

we suffered three months of horrendous weather in Portugal from Jan to march
I found opening another bottle or two of red was most helpful

cheers

Mike

'Red' from Portugal, a break from horrendous weather in favour of a
horrendous hangover!!?

R

Hilton

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Robin Nicholson wrote
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:04:34 +0100, "flybywire" wrote:

we suffered three months of horrendous weather in Portugal from Jan to march
I found opening another bottle or two of red was most helpful

cheers

Mike

'Red' from Portugal, a break from horrendous weather in favour of a
horrendous hangover!!?


Can't speak for red Portuguese wine, though our Portuguese roofer gave
us a bottle of excellent aperitif white port (yes, it was a very
expensive job). However, we are in the Dordogne here, Bergerac is just
down the road, finding really good red wine is certainly not a problem,
and we are doing it ample justice, with a dram or so of Laphroaig when
it's particularly bad.

Today it has been raining for about seven hours non-stop, quite heavily
at times. The other side of the valley is invisible and the rivers are
in spate again. It is truly foul and I haven't brought enough woollies!


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On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:54:43 +0200, Kate Brown wrote:

Today it has been raining for about seven hours non-stop, quite heavily
at times. The other side of the valley is invisible and the rivers are
in spate again. It is truly foul and I haven't brought enough woollies!

We had a similar 10 days in the Dordogne (Sarlat) in June 2002 --
horrible! Then 27C and beautiful the day we left (typical!). Wine was
excellent though.

On 15/06/2010 13:04, flybywire wrote:
we suffered three months of horrendous weather in Portugal from Jan to
march I found opening another bottle or two of red was most helpful

cheers

Mike

We arrived in Malaga on 21 December to enjoy Christmas in the Sun as in
previous years; we had booked until 6 January, however, the weather was
so foul we came home early on 31 Dec.
The wine helped during the intervening period :-)
Don

a wise decision Don
"Donwill" wrote in message
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On 15/06/2010 13:04, flybywire wrote:
we suffered three months of horrendous weather in Portugal from Jan to
march I found opening another bottle or two of red was most helpful

cheers

Mike

We arrived in Malaga on 21 December to enjoy Christmas in the Sun as in
previous years; we had booked until 6 January, however, the weather was so
foul we came home early on 31 Dec.
The wine helped during the intervening period :-)
Don

Kate, the situation is blocked and I expect it to stay this way most of the
summer as indicated in my summer forecast. France and the continent can
expect a wetter than normal summer with plenty of thunderstorms.

Stay-cation in the UK will be good this year, especially in the west like
Devon/Cornwall, Pembrokeshire, the Isle of Man and W Scotland.

Will
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"Kate Brown" wrote in message
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Here we are just on the Dordogne, right in the middle between the Auvergne
and the coast, and it's horrible, cold, wet, nasty little cold breeze, and
no respite in the offing for the rest of the week. It's usually really
nice this time of year and sometimes really, really hot. There have been
flash floods and disastrous storms all over the southern half of France in
this week. What's stuck and how can it be shifted?

grrrrrr.

--
Kate B

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