Sep 30, 2026 · 31 min · 11 segments
Up for discussion this week is the weather, will a town in rainy Brittany run out of water. What’s the situation like everywhere else? Will we all be forced to limit our showers to three minutes soon?…
Katy WrightGuestEmma AlbrightHost
John LichfieldGuestI mean, this week the mercury hit 28 degrees C. That's horribly hot for this time of year.
It was a beautiful feeling, the raindrops caressing the soft skin of my face for the first time in months.
I mean, forecaster Météo France said this week that the country had seen almost no significant rainfall since the start of the month.
Simon Mittelberger, a climatologist at Météo France, said that the country was experiencing an exceptional and prolonged drought.
In a number of départements stretching from the southwest to the northwest, drought levels are unprecedented for any time of year, including summer.
And along the English Channel, usually one of the wettest areas of France, just 10 to 20 millimeters has fallen, compared with the usual 70 to 80.
And rain has been predicted in some parts of the country this week, but definitely that won't be enough to ease the current drought that's ongoing.
I've spent all my summers in Brittany since I was a small child, and we would always have that occasional rainy day, few days or sometimes even weeks of rain in July or August.
And the fact that we didn't even get rain once this summer is definitely freaking me out.
Now, as we're recording, we do have torrential rain and flood alerts in place for parts of the south.
But with this lack of rain comes increasingly dry soils and, of course, water restrictions.
I mean, this week the mercury hit 28 degrees C. That's horribly hot for this time of year.
It was a beautiful feeling, the raindrops caressing the soft skin of my face for the first time in months.
I mean, forecaster Météo France said this week that the country had seen almost no significant rainfall since the start of the month.
Simon Mittelberger, a climatologist at Météo France, said that the country was experiencing an exceptional and prolonged drought.
In a number of départements stretching from the southwest to the northwest, drought levels are unprecedented for any time of year, including summer.
And along the English Channel, usually one of the wettest areas of France, just 10 to 20 millimeters has fallen, compared with the usual 70 to 80.
And rain has been predicted in some parts of the country this week, but definitely that won't be enough to ease the current drought that's ongoing.
I've spent all my summers in Brittany since I was a small child, and we would always have that occasional rainy day, few days or sometimes even weeks of rain in July or August.
And the fact that we didn't even get rain once this summer is definitely freaking me out.
Now, as we're recording, we do have torrential rain and flood alerts in place for parts of the south.
But with this lack of rain comes increasingly dry soils and, of course, water restrictions.
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