Frenchrooster,âŠI would really have needed such a cooling vest today.
One canât spend his life in an air-conditioned room all day 
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It was too hot to cook,.so I went to a Pizzeria instead,then I had needed this cooling vest for there it was hot.
And there were five people who worked in the kitchen in front of the oven,.I wouldnât want to change jobs with them today.
This has been the warmest day here in Sweden,.of this and last yearâs summer.
Youtube TST Sweden cooling vest for a video
Today it is more normal temperatures,.sunny and moderately warm.
Then I can take a bike ride without getting wet in sweat.
It started blowing and getting colder last night,.so I opened all the windows,then it could blow fresh air through the whole house at three oâclock last night.
It was very nice..
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Boden,.the city where I live,was the second warmest in Sweden yesterday.
The hottest in Sweden was Ălvsbyn,.40 km away from Boden.
/Pederđ
Here today was the hottest day in 175 years (i.e. during the time the records have been kept).
It was bizarre to see all my colleagues buying the same Chinese produced cheap cooling fan on Amazon and try to have it delivered ASAP in a fully air-conditioned building. When I made a comment that one actually contributes to rising temperatures when one buys such piece of unrecyclable plastic crap they watched like innocent road crossing ducks to me as if I was talking Chinese or so.
The other half and I are spending the first 2 weeks in September just south of Narbonne in Port la Nouvelle. The beach is only about 500 metres from the house, also the towns you mention and the Pyrenees are within easy driving distance weâll be doing all the things youâve suggested. 
The house has got wifi (and air-con) so Iâve treated myself to a pair of Shanling M100 IEMs to listen to Tidal and whatever stored music I fancy taking.
i hope you will enjoy. September or June are the best months, nice weather and not too many tourists.
if itâs very cold, you have the antique place: Horreum Romain ( Narbonne)
nice abbaye, Abbaye de Frontfroide
parc naturel des cévennes
mountains and see between Narbonne and Carcassonne
Parc RĂ©gional de la Narbonnaise
all the sites on the photos are near Narbonne, or not so farâŠjust a selection.
Thanks @frenchrooster they look lovely places and will come in handy as we are in the process of making a list of places we would like to visit.
In my younger days (nearly 40 years ago) I cycled from Bordeaux to Narbonne Plage via Fumel, Cahors, Toulouse and Carcassonne and much more recently weâve had holidays near Agde and Rocamadour so the south-west of France is an area we love to visit and travel around.
Anyone headed that way should go and eat (and/or stay) at Hotel dâAlibert in Caunes Minervois. Ask for Frederic. Amazing wine list (just trust Fred) and fantastic home cooking, in an exquisite setting and a beautiful village a little north of Carcassonne.
Yep - itâs incredible isnât it? You should suggest to them that they could take all of their clothes off - cheaper, much more effective, less laundry, and more fun, although that might be debatable in some instances (do remind them to put a towel on the chair though). Iâm with you!
July 2019 was the warmest month ever recorded on our globe.
It shows data released from the EUâs satellite-based Earth observation network.
July is usually the warmest month of the year, but this year,.the month thus struck all the records since reliable measurements began at the end of the 1800 century.
This yearâs July month was 0.04 degrees warmer than the previous recordâŠ
Which was at 2016,.when the weather phenomenon El Niño also drove up the temperatures.
âWith the continued release of greenhouse gases and its performance at global temperatures,.the records will continue to be crushed in the future,â said Jean-Noel Thepaut, head of the EUâs European Climate Research Centre Copernicus, in a statement.
The summer 2019 has been characterized by extreme heat waves in EuropeâŠwith heat records in several countriesâŠand extensive forest fires in,.among others,the Arctic region.
/Pederđ
Doesnât surprise me, weâve had a mild winter and most of the eastern sea board (NSW in particular) is in the worst drought weâve had for years. But itâs ok, apparently itâs not globally warming.
The heat harvested 1 400 life in France.
France was hit hard by the summerâs European heatwaves,.with temperatures at most 46 degrees C.
The heat harvested 1 435 lives,.according to a summary from the French government.
More than two-thirds of deaths occurred in the age group over 75.
In the department where the authorities issued the highest warning-level,.the excess mortality rate was 50% higher,according to the health-department.
However,.the figure is lower than during the comprehensive heatwave in the summer of 2003,when barely 19 500 persons are estimated to have died as a result of the heat.
âą Above according to Swedish TV.
/Pederđ
Sorry, itâs only in Spanish (castellano); but I encourage you to use the net translators. The blog is one of the most read in Spain and Latin America, and one of the most impactful among politicians, entrepreneurs, managers and soâŠ
there is 600000 deaths per year in France, so 1000 seems not so much. And itâs difficult to know if itâs entirely the hot weather causeâŠ
@frenchrooster it only seems ânot so muchâ if youâre not one of them . 
itâs not what i wanted to say of course. In 2003, during the very hot summer in France, 20000 persons died from the hot weather. Itâs was dramatic.
People in the 75+ age groups become more intolerant of temperatures (& other conditions) outside the norm & more so as the age progresses.
Its what happens, its a natural consequence of the ageing process, nothings changed.
Except the ability to be kept alive for longer than our natural sell by date.
