Bonjour Colin!
Oh my goodness! Have you been out and made a snowman yet?
We are forecast to have rain this weekend, but who knows? Before, the meteo said absolutely no snow and we woke up to drifts of the stuff!!!
We usually have what I refer to as 'monsoon week' in the spring, where we seem to have rain everyday for, you will be surprised to hear, a week
It's a bit of a nuisance but it is better to get it over and done with really. We have 'cloudbusters' in our area, when if rain is threatened they boom off the 'cloudbusters' and move the rainclouds off to another area....tee-hee!
This is because a lot of this areas commerce is fruit, and they can't risk losing the harvest because heavy rains have destroyed the blossom. The cherry orchards are coming in to flower now...some of them already out. The apples and plums are not far behind, so it won't be long before any potential downpours will be chased away. A bit rough for our neighbouring areas, but nice for us.
We have a mini-climate here being all valleys and often we have sat out watching the lightning flash all around us but been in glorious sunshine ourselves. It has even been known for our village to have a good drenching and we have had not so much as a drop.....and we are only 2kms outside of the village!!!
This has been an extremely long winter however. We usually can rely on very warm days (around about 23ish degrees) from mid February.....the nights though still being very nippy! The french have all been complaining and saying that the last winter like this was back in the 30's!
Today was very misty when I got up but it has all burnt through now and the sun is shining....hope it lasts!
Well, have a good day, keep warm!
Resa
P.S. Thanks for the tips on my browning foliage...I'll hold back on my stern talking to that I had planned! Should I have taken it out of its little pot to plant it?
P.P.S. Did you see my other post on my shopping trip that I wrote on Jesnon's thread? Aren't I a little tinker???