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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2009 5:42:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2009 11:09:43 GMT
Jeez,those are horrible. People just don't get it. Tuesday when we went on our 4 hour tubing trip it was pretty sunny and hot until later when storms approached. I made sure to have hat,long sleeved shirt and tons of sunscreen.Some of the others had none of the above and I'm sure Wednesday a.m. were in agony. Even when I offered some of my sunscreen some refused,"Oh, I never burn". Stupidity.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 14, 2009 15:43:27 GMT
They may not burn, but they are sure going to wrinkle.
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Post by rikita on Aug 18, 2009 20:25:07 GMT
well, i burnt my hands on the first days of cykling - it wasn't all that sunny so i wasn't even wearing sun lotion most of the time, but i suppose the upper parts of the hands are more exposed than the rest of hte body... well it wasn't too bad though and after some days i started making sure to put enough lotion on my hands.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 18, 2009 20:52:01 GMT
Yeeks ~~ aren't you a redhead, Rikita? You could fry out there!
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 19, 2009 0:59:20 GMT
K2, I saw the weather report for Paris was it really in the 90's. It is almost 5:00 pm, and we are at 103. Looks like it will be that or more for the rest of the week and it appears that our Monsoon (LOL) may be done. Yikes.
Casimira, I sure know what you mean, every year we have the same thing happen with people who come in the summer and boy, do they have terrible sunburns. they really don't understand that if you are going to play golf you are on the links as early as you can be. The other is seeing joggers out at Noon running, men bare chested and with no water. Not bright!!!!
(Yikes, I just read Bixa's pet peeve, so I thought I'd better correct my errors!!!!!!) ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 19, 2009 2:57:16 GMT
Yeah -- like I never make typing boo-boos!
The one that kills me are people who jog where there's lots of traffic. Aren't they breathing tons of carbon monoxide, plus it would be setting on their sweaty skin, too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2009 6:45:35 GMT
Today is supposed to be the hottest day of the year in France. Paris will go above 35° and the south of France is expecting 40°.
Starting tomorrow, relief is supposed to arrive.
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Post by happytraveller on Aug 19, 2009 7:00:35 GMT
Same here Kerouac, 35° and high humidity. I don't think I am going to go to Pilates class today, swimming might be a better option !
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Post by hwinpp on Aug 19, 2009 9:04:27 GMT
With 35 C I'd go swimming in that river you posted about recently, HT.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2009 10:12:52 GMT
Yes, the Swiss Alps, HT why did you leave? (I know...) This time of year is the roughest part as we start to move into September which Mr. C. declares hotter than August. Our hottest day I always say is the last Saturday of August. On that night our neighborhood has a Midsummer Mardi Gras with a brass band led parade and lots of debauchery through the streets of Old Carrollton/Riverbend.This year it falls on the 4th anniversary of Katrina and Michael Jackson's birthday. The theme this year is "Beat It".(Always something irreverent)
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Post by happytraveller on Aug 19, 2009 11:10:11 GMT
Have to wait for a few more hours to jump in that river hwinpp. I think I am melting slowly...
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Post by happytraveller on Aug 19, 2009 11:10:51 GMT
The theme this year is "Beat It". I like the sound of that !
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Post by bjd on Aug 19, 2009 11:25:04 GMT
Our forecast for today is 38°, although there is some wind (a hot wind blowing from the south-east), so it should be sort of bearable. We have had about 33-36° every day for the past week. No rain, no storms, even though they had been forecast for last Sunday.
I go around closing the shutters on the sides of the house where the sun arrives -- I feel like a mole, living in semi-darkness.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 19, 2009 15:53:37 GMT
It's 22.5C/73F in my house right now. Praise all the gods of weather, we finally got some rain. It started sometime pre-dawn yesterday, and there have been showers on and off since then. Apparently this was the driest July on record, and half of August with no rain is unheard of.
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Post by happytraveller on Aug 19, 2009 17:50:54 GMT
It is so bloody hot here right now that I really only have one wish in my mind: rolling in snow. Naked. That would be soooo nice !
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2009 18:00:08 GMT
The temperature in my apartment at 8pm is outrageous: 28.5° inside and 31° outside.
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Post by rikita on Aug 19, 2009 20:24:02 GMT
bixa - yeah i am a red head, but i don't burn as easily as some other red heads. i can burn quite badly when i am not careful, but i don't turn red the moment i see the sun.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 20, 2009 0:23:47 GMT
That's good, Rikita. My husband was blonde, but always tanned, never burned. Not all fair-haired people have fragile skin.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2009 5:07:34 GMT
They said on the morning news that it was still 26° in Paris at 4 a.m. Should "only" get up to 32° today.
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Post by rikita on Aug 20, 2009 6:02:38 GMT
supposedly it gets up to 35° today, though not here maybe, just somewhere in germany.
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Post by happytraveller on Aug 20, 2009 9:42:52 GMT
36° today. Should cool down again tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2009 16:21:22 GMT
At the end of August, bouquets appear everywhere in Paris to commemorate the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944. There are plaques on every building where someone is known to have died in the fighting. However, even though Paris was officially liberated on the 25th with the surrender signed at Gare Montparnasse, there were pockets of German resistance for several more days by troops who refused to accept the surrender, and some people were killed after the 25th, for example next to my apartment. This person was 19 years old. I took this photo today when I saw that the bouquet was still there.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 1, 2009 14:19:08 GMT
It's great that the dead are not forgotten. Those were terrible days.
At the weekend the weather turned chilly and so I lit my wood-burning stove.
Today is warm and the sun is shining. I think that Autumn is coming early.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2009 14:23:17 GMT
The last few days have definitely been cooler here too. A can feel the Fall in the air.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 1, 2009 16:53:54 GMT
Deyana - when does snow fall where you live?
Have you finished the painting yet?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2009 16:57:05 GMT
It rained most of the day, but the air remained warm -- a perfect entry into September.
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Post by rikita on Sept 1, 2009 21:55:05 GMT
here it was really really warm today.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 1, 2009 21:59:53 GMT
Warm here - strange weather.
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 2, 2009 9:09:59 GMT
I think yesterday we had the last day of hot summer weather. Today feels completely different. Oh well...
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