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Just looked at a few weather sites for our trip to Burgundy/ Ardeche, we leave on Saturday. Not impressed to say the least, rain, rain and rain. OH says lets not bother going!! I said we are going whatever!!

What sites do you recommend I look at for France? Perhaps they will be better than the ones I've looked at??

Which have you been looking at?  I don't think any forecasts of more than three or four days can be very accurate, so if I were you I wouldn't bother looking!  We're leaving on Friday, and I'm not even going to look at weather until Saturday morning at the Baie de la Somme when we'll buy a paper!

trouble is we are going with Canvas holidays so are tied to one of their sites. I've looked at Metcheck, Meteo France, Accuweather and La Chaine meteo (recoomended on this site) anf all the 10 day forecasts are for 6 days of rain down south (ardeche, tarn gorges, even cote d'azur) Best weather appears to be Loire, Brittany and Vendee.

I know these weather sites arent always right but it is going to be alot of fuel and tolls to sit in the rain. Mmm we are going to sit in it tonight and see what Canvas hols can offer us tommorrow as possible alternatives.

Oh don't worry, we are in Santa Pola, Costa Blanca, rain, rain, dark clouds, still it's 25 degrees to boot.

Mike.

It's certainly not seasonal weather almost everywhere.  I've friends working in Sardinia for HappyCamp - and the weather there has been very poor since the start of the season  three or so weeks ago.  This week they had two days of rain.  People coming back from Spain have commented that the weather was not as good as usual. 

Canvas Holidays used to offer alternatives to booked accommodation, and at one time you could actually request a change of site whilst you were there.  We had a week booked in Domme, but I'd reacted badly to something in the site pool, and they moved us down to Vias on the Mediterranean.  All we paid was an 'arrangement' fee of the cost of a few telephone calls.

Let's just inject a large dose of optimism, and project that we all have a great holiday whatever the weather.

just crack on with it ,you'll have a great time....

i thought you lot in glous would be used to a bit of water after last year....

well all the sites now say different things!! Yes Art B we had plenty of water here in Glos but other than no running water for 2 weeks we were ok. So many people still not back in their homes, living in caravans etc. So my moaning about a bit of rain in france is daft, best just pack the wellies!!

Temps look ok and any rain is mainly showers.

I agree, just dont look and go for it, the weather forecast isnt always right!

Saying that we are going for the first time in June (hoping to get better weather than we get in the UK) if it rains I wont be happy! Lol