It’s the same here. None of the promised rain last night, although mid-evening it smelled as if it was about to. Or if it did rain, it had all dried by this morning.
And we have the same strong Tramontane but it’s a bit cooler for now.
Morning All
Here in La Manche, we have had our first drop of rain for yonks this morning. Call it rain but it is more like a light drizzle. It will disappear when the sun comes out.
Forecast is for another hot week. Temperature up in the 30’s. novelty is wearing off.
If you are down South, stay safe.
Andy
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It’s changed from drizzle to proper rain just now. Not forecast to last long though.
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Totally stopped now. The terrace is totally dry. Guess that’s it for the week.
Meteo my way is forecasting over the next few days temps of 30°C+ (37°C max), but nighttime temps are shown from 17°C to 23°C, so that is something. And there’s been a 3-day relief here from daytime heat to date.
However, the yellow horizon glow I saw low in the sky early one morning in the southern sky – Bordeaux is 118kms due south from me – may well have been reflections from the fires raging down that way. Catastrophic and tragic. Doesn’t bode well for the future.
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Tiny bit of rain this morning. Enough to clear the smoke haze for a while, so windows and doors wide open. It’s a wonderful 21 degrees at the moment. 
I must get back down to the cottage and do some ironing. 
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Had some rain overnight and a light shower this morning. Air quality was good enough to open up the windows for a few hours.
Humidity is going to be nasty once the sun comes out.
Maybe all the folks that planted pine trees without firebreaks will get it right next time.
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Wasn’t a lot of the pine that that is burning now planted in 19th century? Perhaps priority to addressing climate change might help in the future. Tackle problem at source
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Thanks - made me enquire as to why these trees were planted - was expecting something about ships’ masts, but instead found that it was to stop coastal dunes advancing and help drain local mosquito-infested marshes.
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It’s mercifully cool at the moment in Bristol / UK.
Once again I woke to the smell of distant smoke.
Several times recently there has been such a stench of burning rubbish I’ve had to close the windows at times where I would have benefited from having them open…
Clearly in a sprawling city, there will often be miscreants burning stuff they shouldn’t.. but I’m very sensitive to such things so I know it’s a new phenomenon accompanying this weather.
Given the vast distances the smoke in France is being experienced I have to assume it could be a wildfire in South Wales that’s 30 miles by corvid…
I smelled smoke out of doors a couple of times over the weekend, made me look around carefully and also think of everyone in France and Spain right now.
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We’re 400 kms SE of Bordeaux and have had several days of badly polluted air, so find it difficult to imagine how awful it must be for people living much closer, let alone those with respiratory ailments.
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Well I haven’t smelled a thing, but seen the haze, we are about 100 km NE of Bordeaux and most of our wind comes from there.
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The reason why David you can’t smell anything and perhaps Dr Mark can is the wind direction (see Ventusky below).
We too are not smelling anything, have little or no smoke haze and a beautiful blue sky. The wind over us is coming from the NW, not the west. We are making the most of the better conditions.
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Anyone remember those concrete/brick storage room heaters, heated with off-peak electrically at night, well insulated, giving off heat during the day? 1960s & 70s I think.
The stone walls of my house have lost their stored heat - house back to 22°C temps - but how long will that last I wonder with the next heat wave coming? Small beer though under current circumstances!
You can still get storage heaters, not sure how much concrete is involved. We’ve discussed them in the past, they use the solid->liquid phase change and a paraffin or synthetic wax with a melting point about 50-60°C otherwise you wouldn’t get enough heat capacity for them to be useful.
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Many years ago my father remarried and when she moved in she insisted using these, swore by them, possibly Dimplex. Very popular back then. Used one’s around on Ebay! Brick filled.
Edit added - they weighed a ton!
I lived in a student flat with storage heaters. I didn’t think they worked all that well in terms of emitting heat.
I don’t remember how well they worked. Had reached a point back then when I could afford a small mortgage and moved out!