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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
if your winter weather turns out to be nicer than our "summer" (or so they claim) weather i may cry. so, so depressing, to have these leaden skies and frequent downpours, in JUNE (arg !!!)... then again, no-one ever came to Paris for the sun.
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Well, you see, temperature is not a prime determinant of overall weather here. In the last week (cleared up as of yesterday) we've had mostly constant rain, and on Monday morning we had 82mm (over 3 inches) of rain in about two hours, and two thirds of that came in one hour. It pissed down.
This had us go from a broad-ish beach like this:
to, at high tide, this:
So, it looks like they'll be pumping sand again. They'd only just got all the rocks covered and a nice, broad, gently-sloping beach back about two weeks ago.
Cheers,
Marc