Nooooo @Papi Jo. April showers are friendly and definitely rain whereas giboulées de mars can be sleet, snow, hailstones and quite nasty.
Good rainbow.
You're right, @Obelixx but we don't have a word for April showers in French !
I'm reminded of the The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales which I learnt (by heart) as a student of English philology (those were the days).
WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
More southerly latitudes so the weather is usually ahead @KT53 and gets warmer faster. There isn't a Belgian French expression for April showers tho they are also a regular feature of April weather there, except the years it's still frozen!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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we've just come back from seeing Hubby's surgeon. Not only was she more than happy to shake hands with us both, but she's given Hubby the all clear. No more cancer, no more colostomy bag, no more dressing changes. It's ALL over. Have I ever said I LOVE THE NHS?
Brilliant news for you Hostafan1. The staff in the NHS do a wonderful job, they are just stretched too thin. My wife had an appointment with her GP today and actually went in on time!
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Good rainbow.
WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
I thought France was an hour ahead of the UK, not a month. How do you get April showers in March?
Have I ever said I LOVE THE NHS?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.