Today, November 11, is Saint Martin's day in France. “Saint Martin's Summer” — l'été de la Saint-Martin — is what we call Indian Summer in North America. So it's nice that today we are supposed to have some relatively pleasant weather. Some sun and, more importantly, no rain. It'll be nice to have a dry day, even if predictions indicate we'll have a lot of rain on Sunday Nov. 12 and Monday Nov. 13.
These photos of November days since about 2007, show that we don't always have dreary gray and rainy weather at this time of year. Even so, heavy rains and flooding continue up in northern France. The worst flooding is in the département called le Pas-de-Calais, which has a population of about 1.5 million and an area of almost seven thousand km² (2,600 mi²). There is also some flooding in the rest of the northern region (les Hauts de France), as well as in the Vendée and the Charente-Maritime départements on France's Atlantic coast. We have to consider ourselves lucky.
PBS news showed the flooding in France. I love sunny fall days.
ReplyDeleteThese are really pretty photos. November is so up and down. We've had Thanksgivings where there was an inch layer of ice and snow, and some when it was in the mid-70s F.
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