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Last week of July and first week of August in the Dordogne were gorgeous, clear blue skies, light breezes and one of those huge Dordogne thunderstorms where all the lights go out in Intermarche and you just hope that you shut all the plastic windows on your tent!!- it then went cloudy  for our last week - warm 23C but cloudy.

Sunday 15th was spent at Camping de Sologne near Salbris on the way home - it was drizzling when we arrived and then rained all night - watching the fireworks across the lake from our pitch....in the rain!! Good site though - I will get round to posting a review.

usual torrential deluge Monday 16th in the Baie de Somme and then drizzle in Calais.

Good job I live in such a sunny area of the uk

Just back today from the Loire Valley where we had 18 days of sunshine with only one day where we had sunshowers for most of the day and one evening we couldnt sit out because it drizzled on and off. The temps were around 25 degrees with a couple of days hitting 30. We left yesterday on what promised to be another lovely day.

Carol

After the wall to wall sunshine of may/june/'july we get a a few weeks of desparately needed rain and with the exception of iwilani and myself everyone starts moaning about it being a poor summer!

It is unfortunate that the rain came in August & school holidays but it was so dry that on one site they had closed fields because the grass was so parched. Some areas had hosepipe bans. We were on another site where the farmer was feeding next winter's silage to his cows in july because his grass was so dry it was not growing.

All in all its been a great summer.

Its cracking the flags over here on the Lancashire Riviera!!! not a cloud in the sky and yesterdays high wind has gone. The reason....they have removed the hosepipe ban!! seriously they implemented it in early July and it bloody rained until they removed it!!!

Great weather from 10th-27th Aug in both Tarn Gorge and Portiragnes Plage (nr Bezier). Had a couple of odd weather conditions where we were sat on the beach in 75 degree heat with a very heavy sea mist- so much so that you could only see about 5 metres in any direaction. Quite eerie really.

Wishing we were back there now!

We had glorious weather on the Cote d'Azur for the first two weeks of August - sunny everyday except one afternoon and about 28-30 degrees. We have just got back from a long weekend in Switzerland and the weather was pretty awful and cold except for Sunday, but Sunday night it snowed down to 2000 metres which is unusual for August where we go.

Friends who went to Costa del Sol and Alicante during August said that the weather was disappointing compared to other years.

Susie