We live in a part of the world where the weather is temperate, and we don’t have extremes like hurricanes and tornadoes. It can get rough at sea with force 9 gales and 10-foot waves, but that’s as bad as it gets. The barometer has been dropping at the rate of 1 hPa per hour for the past few days to settle out at 1006.0 hPa right now. We were promised high winds gusting at 35 to 40 knots and cold weather. Well, this morning it snowed in Normandy.
I didn’t have the courage to go outside any further than the yard. There’s my boat covered over and the snow visible on the roofs. I did get one of the garden through the window, but through-the-glass photos never work!
Freak weather or an early winter? We’ll see…
The Blue Flower 
Well, if i read correctly the weather reports, the very same snow is heading southward through the Rhone valley and expected tomorrow morning on the Alps and also at lower altitudes – until 300m here in Piedmont! Time to prepare for cooking some winter comfort food – polenta with spezzatino, bollito misto or bagna cauda (you may want to google the terms!). We had a very warm october.
Heh heh heh. Snow? Heh heh heh.
Oddly enough, yesterday, I went for a bike ride wearing only a short-sleeved shirt and a light pair of slacks because it was so warm. Something like 23 Celsius, or 75 F (my noncalculations may not be exact). I guess we sent our cold weather over to you, Fr. Anthony! Today it is gloomy and we have rain forecast for the next several days. And the temperatures are falling.