I found the weather tended to be cool until about mid-May, then mostly sunny.

"The cold weather tends to bring problems to a head," she said.

We head to the south of the region, to the border with the Vendeé, where the weather tends to be better.

Fires still burn, of course, and the weather now tends to extremes.

Warm weather tends to bring out breeding female mosquitoes to bite.

But to look at the bright side, dry weather does tend to make fruit sweeter.

The further south you head, the later the weather tends to break, however.

A more plausible explanation would be that cold weather tends to coincide with Christmas and the new year sales.

The weather tends to be warm year-round with rains in summer and autumn.

The weather tends to be quite hot and dry here during the summer months.