Ther is a definite smell of smoke in the air here at Limoux this morning.
That must be some huge fire…
Wind has changed direction to the NW, hence your direction. Skies are clear and blue at moment after being black and brown and smelling toxic for past two days.
We had smoke over us yesterday, Narbonne area. We thought the sun had gone in but when we looked outside the smoke was fairly high over us and you could smell it.
The Stansted flight yesterday changed it’s usual route and went along the coast before turning north over east of Narbonne. Usually they take off here and turn north at end of my street but obviously wanted to leave the skies free for the fireplanes and helicopters.
This fire has made it to the BBC TV news. Nearly forty years ago we bought our first house in the Languedoc so we could have guaranteed warm summers. This year I have gone to visit family in the UK to avoid the canicule. How times change.
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Are you near Perpignan airport, Shiba?
Yes, 20mins when no traffic about.
Luckily not many fires down your end this summer Gus. I was in Nevada and Arizona a few weeks ago and it was 40 to 45+,hottest there for 40odd years and then back to the family in Nashville where it was very very humid and high 30’s so a week in the UK last week cooled me down a bit and now its back into the oven here.
@Adam1 They saved Gilles Goujon’s restaurant and his house and hopefully the rest of the village. He’s a caring and nice man, I’m pleased he hasn’t lost his and his team’s livelihood.
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Thanks for the update! Happy for him - and us - but I bet the scenery the retauarant enjoyed is a p-retty mess now though…
You don’t go to the restaurant for the view, to be honest -it’s in the main street. The main dining room doesn’t have any windows but the private room might be different. Some of the hotel rooms have a view of the pool and the hillside opposite, if you’re staying on the main site.
The times I have been before, I stay in the hotel and enjoy a walk after lunch. So when I say scenery, I mean the outlying countryside that must be a charred mess now. Mind you, vegetation groes pretty quickly after a fire, so it will interesting to see…
I hope it’s not too depressing. After the fire on La Clape between Narbonne and Narbonne Plage a few years ago, it was pretty bad for about a year.
I’ll be interested to hear what you think when you go again.