In Paris, we had about one hour of rain this past Sunday but I can't even remember the last time it rained. Paris is not London, but the weather is still consistently wet and cool so the mild winter and lack of rain stands out. There is plenty of concern across Europe that if the rain does not start soon, water shortages will be an issue in July and August.
The month of April was so warm and so dry across Western Europe that it rewrote the weather record books in country after country, national weather services said today, as hot air masses from Africa and the effects of a changing climate combined to drive up temperatures and drive away rain.
April 2007 was the eighth consecutive month of higher-than-normal temperatures in Germany, and the 13th straight month of unusually warm conditions in France.
