Strange Summer

Il pleut ce matin et il fait plus frais que ces derniers jours. Je fais les remarques sur cet été et mon intolérance à la chaleur et mon étonnement que malgré une température de 20°C le chauffeur de bus  avait enclenché le chauffage dans mon bus.

It’s raining this morning. It started sometime in the night but I can’t say when as I was sleeping (when I sleep, I sleep).

It’s been a strange summer. We haven’t really had a heat wave - it often stays hotter than 30°C for over a week but not this year. Statistically however, and don’t the weathermen love this, it has been an average summer temperature-wise.

A co-worker reminded my that this summer is more synchronized than preceding summers as the better weather happened on the week-end and not during the week so he is happier.

From my point of view I am relieved as I don’t cope with hot and clammy weather easily. Anything over 26-27°C and longer than a few days makes me very uncomfortable.

Don’t get me wrong, I adore the sun, it’s the heat I can’t cope with.

Any suggestions of a predominately clement climate with lots of sun and neither too hot nor too cold?

Of course it would help if air-conditioning was better implemented here in Switzerland. We seem to have an obsession with heat. You might not believe this but although it was raining and 20°C outside this morning at 6.30am, the bus driver had the heating on in the bus! Crazy.