Last week of July and first week of August in the Dordogne were gorgeous, clear blue skies, light breezes and one of those huge Dordogne thunderstorms where all the lights go out in Intermarche and you just hope that you shut all the plastic windows on your tent!!- it then went cloudy for our last week - warm 23C but cloudy.
Sunday 15th was spent at Camping de Sologne near Salbris on the way home - it was drizzling when we arrived and then rained all night - watching the fireworks across the lake from our pitch....in the rain!! Good site though - I will get round to posting a review.
usual torrential deluge Monday 16th in the Baie de Somme and then drizzle in Calais.
we left for a month in France on 10th July where we did not have any wet days at all. We had several storms at night - one in Tarn, huge one in med, nothing in pyrenees and then a bit of rain as we woke to pack up our tent on ile de Re - c'est la vie! Since coming home I think it has rained every day for at least part of the time and now I am due to go back to work the weather is supposedly brightening up (though just had to dash to get washing in as heavy rain downpour came on and was certainly not forecast on the met site this am).
Just back today from the Loire Valley where we had 18 days of sunshine with only one day where we had sunshowers for most of the day and one evening we couldnt sit out because it drizzled on and off. The temps were around 25 degrees with a couple of days hitting 30. We left yesterday on what promised to be another lovely day.
Carol
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I agree with Millermicm, it's been a great summer in the UK! We had the first serious rain for months last weekend. Mind you this is our first summer "down south", we moved to East Sussex from Yorkshire last September and the difference is amazing. Another factor is that now we're retired, we can take advantage of every fine day, not just the weekends. I used to hate it at work when customers would come in and say "Isn't it a lovely day!" when i couldn't even see it let alone enjoy it. We spent 3 weeks in France and Spain in June and the first week was wet and cool, while England was having a heatwave! Luckily the next two weeks were better, but still not 100% sunshine. When we go away we tend to go where there are interesting things to see and do whatever the weather, i think that's the key to a good holiday.
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Believe me Iwalani if you think this has been a great summer in East Sussex and we live in East Kent not so far away I cant imagine what the summers must have been like in Yorkshire.
After the wall to wall sunshine of may/june/'july we get a a few weeks of desparately needed rain and with the exception of iwilani and myself everyone starts moaning about it being a poor summer!
It is unfortunate that the rain came in August & school holidays but it was so dry that on one site they had closed fields because the grass was so parched. Some areas had hosepipe bans. We were on another site where the farmer was feeding next winter's silage to his cows in july because his grass was so dry it was not growing.
All in all its been a great summer.
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I thought the weather this year in Vendee wasn't as good as it was last year. We went first two weeks in August, lovely the first week, second week when the sun did come out it was really hot, however, just didnt come out enough for my liking. Way too cloudy !
Its cracking the flags over here on the Lancashire Riviera!!! not a cloud in the sky and yesterdays high wind has gone. The reason....they have removed the hosepipe ban!! seriously they implemented it in early July and it bloody rained until they removed it!!!
Great weather from 10th-27th Aug in both Tarn Gorge and Portiragnes Plage (nr Bezier). Had a couple of odd weather conditions where we were sat on the beach in 75 degree heat with a very heavy sea mist- so much so that you could only see about 5 metres in any direaction. Quite eerie really.
We had glorious weather on the Cote d'Azur for the first two weeks of August - sunny everyday except one afternoon and about 28-30 degrees. We have just got back from a long weekend in Switzerland and the weather was pretty awful and cold except for Sunday, but Sunday night it snowed down to 2000 metres which is unusual for August where we go.
Friends who went to Costa del Sol and Alicante during August said that the weather was disappointing compared to other years.
Susie
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Topic: Weather this summer?
