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
...
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

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne dot
org dot uk if you
want to reply personally

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

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne dot
org dot uk if you
want to reply personally- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

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

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
--

"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

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne dot
org dot uk if you
want to reply personally

"Will Hand" wrote in message
news:6BORn.34253$OF3.32895@hurricane...
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
--

"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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Stay-cation Will is that like time of at Christmas Holly-day?

In article ,
Lawrence Jenkins writes:
Stay-cation Will is that like time of at Christmas Holly-day?

I think the word is an import from America. It seems to have become
fashionable over the last six months or so.
--
John Hall

"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking."
Katherine Cebrian

On 15/06/2010 18:17, Will Hand wrote:
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
--


Will, have you any idea why the weather has been blocked for so long,
like, since mid December? The NAO has been persistently negative since
then, the longest such period that I could find in the historical
records (that was a quick scan, not a totally rigorous analysis).
November last year was very wet with a positive NAO and in the second
week of December it was like a switch was flipped and it suddenly
flipped to cold and dry, and has been ever since.

Also, why is it the blocks seem to preferentially form to our west,
regularly putting the UK under a northerly airstream, thus providing us
with the mediocre temperatures that have plagued us throughout the spring?

If it carries on much longer, we'll have to re-write the textbooks. Our
prevailing winds are no longer from the south west, they are from the
north! :-)

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

In message 6BORn.34253$OF3.32895@hurricane, Will Hand
writes
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

Music to my ears Will, must say that it's been a really good spring (if
you like dry sunny conditions, like me) here in the Isle of Man.
Weather now well back on track again after a slight damp hiccup or two
during the TT last week.


--


Jim