In recent times we have been recording daily maximum temperatures of 35 degrees centigrade or more. We have stayed home as much as possible. Spent many hours sitting in our jacuzzi. No going to the beach and shopping only when necessary. Yesterday temperatures dropped as the tramontane blew all day. Today, at 9.00 am, the air temperature is just 20 degrees.
Brings back memories of 2003
I suspect you mean 2003⊠
I was pregnant in 1976 and we lived in a 3rd floor flat.
We went on holiday back to Lancashire from Kent and wondered as the green appeared as we went north.
I feel for all pregnant women in these heat waves as they are all carrying their own individual heating systems.
I find it hard to believe people still want to move to the south of France! Sounds hellâish to me. Not so much the day time temperatures but the fact is stays high at night. I never wanted to move to africa
Today is sunny, breezy and a beautiful blue sky with wispy clouds. Only 27C max! Yesterday same.
As they say, the wonderful thing about being hit over the head with a hammer is the joy you feel when it stops!
We (in the village) were talking excitedly about the pleasure of feeling chillyâŠ
Only a brief respite, but very welcomeâŠ
The upside of living down here in the PO is that we have the mountains too giving a wide choice of climates in a relatively small area. Where I live we have citrus fruits growing in the garden. Ninety minutes drive and you are in apple orchards. It is an amazing corner of France.
Gus
That was Summer 2022 for us. 5 weeks of 34-41°C during the day and seldom dropping below 23-25°C at night.
Got any outdoor tasks completed by 10am and hid indoors otherwise.
12.9 on waking this morning! Well, I have to make the most of being in the UK. We are having a wretched summer. Highest temperature over the last 10 days 23 degrees. Sorry, I know what itâs like to suffer great heat from my time in the Tarn.
Johannesburg had the best climate I ever lived in. Warm summers with no need of aircon and with a refreshing short thunder shower most evenings at around 17:00. Fresh cool winters with a rare need for heating, and if so then just a little fan heater. It was only the high risk of getting shot when you popped out to the shops that stopped me retiring there.
We have family in various parts of SA and I can often hear their voices when I read some of your remarksâŠ
I heard a report on R4 yesterday that Lord Frost (yes, him) made a speech saying that thereâs an upside to Global warming for the UK. Currently far more people in Britain die from the cold than from the heat and Global waring should reduce that number. So thatâs OK then 
I heard the same thing, and apart from the irony of his name, the word âblinkeredâ didnât cover the half of it.
What happened to BBC balanced reporting? A bunch of climate change deniers and no-one to give the other point of view⊠And Frost, pleeasse, .the man who completely messed up brexit and N ireland!
Passed through Prades yesterday, lots of apples next to the road on trees. Up at Villefranche, it was very muggy and no wind but then its in a deep valley with fortress walls. Chez-moi I was afraid to put the yellow bin out last night because the tramontine was so strong, leaves are falling too. Went to Collioure monday afternoon, was absolutely heaving and the sea was pretty rough. As you say, a lovely region
My daughter is enjoying the respite here from the texas heat, shame she has to go home tomorrow back to it, she was just getting aclimatised to the cooler (35°C + some days heat) Her husband said it was getting towards 45°C yesterday back home.
Frost is an idiot who is normally wrong about everything, in this case dangerously so.
I was listening to World Service and there was a chap speaking from Texas late at night and it was 38 degrees.
But large parts of Texas are either semi- arid or hot and cold dessert. So those temperatures are to be expected arenât they?
And you can just pop over to Spain for lunch ? What a treat.