The Canicule Breaks

OK.....all of my complaining about the heat is ancient history now. Since the first of the month the weather has been more like November than August. There is rain almost every day - sometimes all day long. The temperature has been in the 60s and maybe the low 70s. On Sunday the 13th, the high temperature never got out of the 50s. The low, I swear, was in the 40s.

Over the past two weeks I've seen people in the Vosges mountains wearing winter coats. A friend who was planning to motorcycle in Switzerland had to change his vacation plans because it was snowing at elevations over 2000 meters.

Funny how things can change. In July we (French and US alike) complained about the heat each day. No one talks of the canicule anymore. Now, we all complain about the cold and the rain.