...plus nous sommes heureux et soulagés. We were able to sleep in the loft last night. It was what I'd call very warm, but not hot up there.
Today's high temperature in the Saint-Aignan area will be about 85ºF, the forecasters say. We say yay! We're still waiting for some rain, and some is predicted to fall during the day. Fingers crossed.
Despondent is the word that best describes my mood today. Blame my eyes (I'm half blind). Add in the extreme hot weather and the forest fires burning all around France.
This morning the Forêt de Fontainebleau, just a few miles south of Paris, is burning. It's unbelievable.
There's talk of a respite this week. We should get some rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday. I hope the weather forecasts are accurate this time.
I've spent a lot of the summer sleeping on this sofa in our living room. I mean sleeping overnight, not just napping. It's too hot to sleep upstairs in the loft, where we have a king-size bed and where we sleep when the weather isn't so hot. The living room sofa is comfortable, and behind and above it is a big north-facing window I can open to let in some fresh, cool air overnight and early in the morning.
The high temperature in Saint-Aignan today is forecast to be 104ºF (that's 40º C.). The bad news is that the weatherman on TéléMatin says today that we're going to have another 7 to 10 days of extreme heat before the heat wave breaks up and temperatures start to fall.
The cold water coming out of our faucets here in Saint-Aignan has a temperature of 83.6ºF. That's warm enough to take a comfortable shower in.
We are back to sleeping on the sofa in the living room (me) and the bed in the guest room (W.) The loft overhead, our family room, is an oven.
The temperature outside at 6 p.m. hit 102ºF a couple of days ago. Today's forecast: 95 to 98 ºF. It's about 93ºF up in the loft now (5:30 p.m.).
