Sonja

We have a draught like the places around us that make the international headlines, but it is managable. So far however no really severe fires that went out of control as in the far south and north of Europe and no problems with water transportation to lifeestock with dramatic chopper pictures as inbetween the higher alpine ranges, but the public beach baths closing the water access when folk want them most, some of the cuter harbours can not be reached any more by the daytrip cruiser system of regular low keeled vessels, waterfalls go non-spectacular (and in the case of Schaffhausen just a disgusting soup of belated fish) , there are yellow unatractive public parks that get not watered any more also in the most touristic parts of towns, there are bottle retun issues at the brewery, agressive wasps taking over recycling stations, elderly caravan camper seeking more medical attention so the doctors got stress at the ER, and the smaler local headlines about how it is just awful and how it hurts the purses of the tourism industry and repute of the destination Lake Constance seem to take no end about stuff like this. The apple and grain farmer are not amused eiter.
The last 48 hours things changed however, some severe thunderstorms went through and now it is a tad less obscenely hot according to the thermometre but it is very damp for it.
Oh well. Other places got worse issues.

Well, we had enough bad fires in Europe this year, just none really close by. Ask the Greek, Spanish and Swedish people.

Germany had a few too up north, but smaler and much faster under control again... last week we had an ICE causing a spark going around a corner in a town somewhere near Bonn and torching a wall from the rail embankment up to a row of densely standing ecnomic homes because the weeds where so dry and there was obviously some respnsibility vacuum. The poor folks there have no houses now, some got seriously hurt or very sick from smoke. Not muchh different from the californian fire victims :o(