Wishing all my readers a very happy new year. In France, you do not want people Bonne Année before the midnight coup on January 1, since bad luck is considered. From things, you can say it until the end of January, usually accompanied by the phrase, “Sortout Pour la Santé” (Above all, for good health).
Tomorrow, January 6, the date of epoiphanie, the day of the Kings, is official when the three magicians visited the baby Jesus and sacrificed him gifts. Since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, Bone has held on the liturgical calendar on the first Sunday after January 1, which makes it today.
GALETTE DES ROIS
In Epiphany, it is customary in France Frangipán (Almond paste mixed with Patissière cream). We invite our friends MJ and C to tea on Thursday. Allhehe spent several days too early, I served a gallette of our local boulangerie. ‘Tea’ consisted or a glass or musco.
As I was in charge of cutting the cake, I made sure MJ found The FèveA porcelain baratija traditionally baked in the Galette (look at your teeth). He became queen in the afternoon and put on the gold cardboard crown that comes with her. She selected my husband as her consort.
We do not discuss New Year resolutions (Bonnes intentions), Probable because we all know that one breaks them soon. Instead of resolutions, I make plans or desires, usually quite lazy. However, the best rush. Of 2024s 10 things to do, my first publication or last year, I think I achieved only one, so we will quickly draw an auction on that. However, I did other things.
Shadow 2024
The weather last year has to take part of the blame of my abject fault (in addition to my own without identity). From March to November, when they did not rent, we were domesticating the garden, which delighted with the downpours and grew faster than we could control it.
But was the climate last year really as bad as we remember? The short answer is yes. My husband, who records anything and everything, has maintained meteorological statistics for almost 27 years. This implies, first, to give every day a subjective qualification: also, if it is good, less if it is bad and zero if it is in the middle. While this may not sound very scientific, it builds a reasonably consistent image over time.
In 2024, only 36% of the days during the year received an advantage, the least amount in our time here. The average of more than 26 years is 48%.
Only three months last year, January, July and August, presented a ‘normal’ meteorological profile, that is, the weather you would expect in that month. The others were among the worst, the second sausage or the third sauce we have. I will show you two examples: May and September. The tables below show the proportion of advantages in those months about 26 years. The line repeats the trend. Last year, May and September the sausage went by far.
Precipitation, the second parameter in its statistics, reinforces the impression that 2024 was one of the gloss that we have had here. We had 1022.5 mm or rain, just over one meter. The average is 894, so we had approximately 14% more than the average. You can see in the table below that spring and autumn at the beginning of autumn were particularly wet.
So there is, and we were not as means as bad as many areas of France that experienced floods in serial. Hopefully 2025 bring a better and less extreme climate.
Thinking about the future
What is in the letters for 2025? The blog celebrates its birthday in February. He has continued for much longer than I thought I could in 2010. This is my happy place, where I go for a little escapism and because I love to investigate the recesses of French history and culture and share what I discover.
I learn a lot of your comments and observations, which make me go through rabbit holes to discover more. You often share fragments that become a future blog post, so keep coming.
I plan some new features for next year, so be attentive. Meanwhile, Bonne Année 2025.
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