{"id":30501,"date":"2015-11-03T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=30501"},"modified":"2019-04-16T13:31:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:31:19","slug":"halloween-heat-in-uk-france-says-takvera-travelling-to-paris2015-cop21-climate-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/halloween-heat-in-uk-france-says-takvera-travelling-to-paris2015-cop21-climate-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween heat in UK , France says @takvera travelling to #Paris2015 #Cop21 #climate talks"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Looking<\/a>

The temperature I was expecting: Looking down from Mount Titlus, Switzerland<\/p><\/div>\nI have been travelling in England and Europe for 6 weeks now. It is supposed to be Autumn going into Winter, yet there is still plenty of warmth despite the shorter days. Other than a few days of rain, it has been remarkably fine: T-shirt and shorts weather, although a jacket is sometimes needed for chilly evenings. <\/p>\n

Even in Switzerland I was wearing T-shirts and shorts, only pulling on a warm jacket for the journey to the top of Mount Titlis at over 3000 metres altitude in the European Alps.<\/p>\n

I realize with my full bag I have probably brought far too many warm weather clothes expecting much cooler Autumn and Winter temperatures. Or maybe it is that bottle of Limoncello from Sorrento weighting my bag down.<\/p>\n

Abnormally warm in UK and France<\/h3>\n

October in the United Kingdom had temperatures above the average in almost all places, with less rainfall according<\/a> to the UK Met Office. <\/p>\n

Yesterday brought a Halloween surprise. November 1 was abnormally warm across the United Kingdom and France. It was the hottest November day on record for the UK<\/a> with a top temperature of 22.3C recorded in mid Wales at in Trawsgoed, in Ceredigion.<\/p>\n

\"Halloween<\/a>

Halloween heat in France, Nov 1, 2015<\/p><\/div>Across the channel in France the heat was also on. The French Bureau of Meteorology in a media release<\/a> said that many monthly records were established for Sunday 1st November. The West of France was particularly warm including from the Charente and Dordogne to the coasts of the English Channel. <\/p>\n

In Brittany and Normandy, the vast majority of weather stations had record maximum temperatures for November.<\/p>\n

According to M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France: in Rennes, Nantes, Caen, Saint-Brieuc, Brest, Lorient, Rouen, Le Havre, records for November were well matched or beaten, sometimes significantly, with values \u200b\u200bbetween 19 and 22 \u00b0 C, or 6-9 degrees above normal. “The old records are sometimes beaten largely (about 2 degrees) as in Caen (21.6 \u00b0 C), Ploumanac’h (22.0 \u00b0 C), Cholet (21.7 \u00b0 C) and Cherbourg (20.8 \u00b0 C ). It also records a little further south records in Niort (22.7 \u00b0 C), La Rochelle (22.5 \u00b0 C), Limoges (22.8 \u00b0 C) or Tours (21.2 \u00b0 C). In Bergerac, the 23.2 \u00b0 C recorded increased the record of 2014.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I travelled from Paris to Nantes on the high speed TGV train and can attest to the summer-like temperatures, although I wondered when Australia might see the efficiency of high speed rail in moving people and connecting the regions and capital cities.<\/p>\n

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On the TGV Paris-Nantes. Australia needs to build #highspeedrail<\/a> @TurnbullMalcolm<\/a> @billshortenmp<\/a> @RichardDiNatale<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/CBpMwq4dDJ<\/a><\/p>\n

— John Englart EAM (@takvera) November 1, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n