Weather

[niemeyjt]

Well the little trip down the A26/A5/A31/A39/A36 is over for another weekend - the car thermometer peaked at 38.

Job no 1 next weekend - fix the car aircon again.

[DaveW]

Are you doing a weekly drive to France or the UK? If it's the latter my heart bleeds for you.

Currently warm here at 30, which is usually about the maximum.

Hope the car isn't of the Land Rover variety

[niemeyjt]

No - just around Swiss bank holiday weekends and birthdays. Given up flying.

LR in the UK . . . with totally knackered aircon.

This is the Volvo. One of the two top-up valves is hidden by the power steering reservoir - which the previous garage did not find - so did half a job of topping up the aircon.

[manonthemoon2]

We just had heavy rain, hailstones, wind, thunder & lightening.

Electric has been off for 45 mins. My worry is if it stays off for a few hours, I won't be able to recharge the device that operates my insulin pump.

[MAD87]

We just had heavy rain, hailstones, wind, thunder & lightening.

Electric has been off for 45 mins. My worry is if it stays off for a few hours, I won't be able to recharge the device that operates my insulin pump.

The pharmacy might be able to help out, or indeed the Mairie.

[MAD87]

We had a humdinger of a storm from about 8 last night until some time in the night. Lotsa luvverly rain and the temperature dropped almost instantly.

[Bayleaf]

Ditto! Same storm I guess, and then one random big flash and loud crack sometime in the middle of the night, to wake me from my slumbers!

No hail I think - although some noises coming the chimney sounded more solid than giant rain drops. I'd suggested to holiday home clients that they put stuff away, and cars, just in case. More due again tonight, so we'll keep our vehicles under the hangar again. Only the van has to venture out today...

Polytunnel survived the wind (had to close the sides and front), and everything cooler and well refreshed.

[Lori]

No rain here. Still dry as a bone. Slightly cooler this afternoon with a high of 33C. Now the only 'Risques d'Orages' is forecasted for Friday. The other days that were in the forecast yesterday (for the middle to end of this week) have disappeared - like normal. Sadly, there is a strong chance the Friday storm will disappear too..

[exile]

Similar here on the other side of the Rhone valley.
It was the same all of last summer - heavy rain or storms in 5-7 days time. That lasted more than 2 months and of course little to no rain in between. At least the BBC forecast and the Norwegian weather forecasters seem to think we will get a bit of rain towards the end of the week.

I have been out disturbing the dust bowl with a hoe. Hard work in the sun but at least the victim rate among the weeds is very high.

[Char]

We had rain and a storm here last night - struck by lightening which tripped the leccie. Never heard such a loud bang before, littl'un thought the world had come to an end.