Weather

[Spectrum]

It is to be less hot here today by 10C. When I took first feeds down to the horses, there was what appeared to be a thin mist and there's a vague smell of smoke. I hope it's my vivid imagination playing tricks on me.

Same here Veem just a faint smell wind from SSW, just walked around, could it be from the Gironde fires? we are both NE of it, temp peaked at 39 yesterday 1700, beers are having to stay in the freezer a bit longer

[Hotrodder]

We've got rain this morning. Now I don't have to cut the field.

[Blaze]

Huge forest fire at Les monts d'Arrée about 70 Km NW of us.

Saw that on the news last night
There have been a couple of fires south of us but brought under control fairly quickly. All forest tracks are closed to the public in our department.

[MAD87]

We've got rain this morning. Now I don't have to cut the field.

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[Veem]

It is to be less hot here today by 10C. When I took first feeds down to the horses, there was what appeared to be a thin mist and there's a vague smell of smoke. I hope it's my vivid imagination playing tricks on me.

Same here Veem just a faint smell wind from SSW, just walked around, could it be from the Gironde fires? we are both NE of it, temp peaked at 39 yesterday 1700, beers are having to stay in the freezer a bit longer

That's exactly what it is. I guess we're well over 100km from the nearest fires but the wind has changed to a SWerly and friends all over this area are reporting the sight and smell of smoke. Evidently the pompiers are aware.

[Wilbro]

at 0700 today it was just over 24C. Met our farmer neighbour who said maybe rain tonight. We'll see but hope he's right.

[suein56]

Around 5:30am a huge squall blew up out of nowhere .. I thought it was raining but the noise was simply the wind gathering momentum, twisting and turning in every direction.
We did eventually have a few large drops of rain but that was all.
Happily the temps are falling .. touching 40° yesterday to 24° in a matter of hours. It's still windy but not as manically as before.

[Lori]

Currently 34 degrees at 11h00. Forecast has not changed. We'll hover around 40 degrees for the next 15 days. No rain in the forecast at all.

Bedroom never dropped below 28 degrees last night.

Quite literally everything/everyone down here is baking.

[Bayleaf]

Cooler this morning, and wind has changed - so we're currently shrouded by smoke from the Gironde fires, as the smoke sweeps across the Dordogne and Charante today.

So hope tonight's storms help put some fires out.

[Veem]

First thing the wildfire smoke blown our way from Gironde looked like a morning haze in the paddock and surrounding fields. Now though, the sky is grey and we can't be sure whether that's grey cloud or grey smoke and the burning smell has significantly reduced.