Elaine Cobbe

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91 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 26 Jul

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The Pat Kenny Show · Forest Fires and El Niño · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

And people are seeing the smoke and smelling the smoke as far away as Lyon in eastern France, because the winds are now going from west to east, which, of course, is now worrying other areas about whether fires will ignite or reignite there.

There are concerns, and we've already had since the June heatwave, many incidents of the trains having to stop or being left on the line for hours with people suffering in the heat or simply having to close down lines because the heat just makes it unsafe or it knocks out the electrics in the

And so there's been a lot of problems already.

The SNCF, the National Rail Company, has asked people if they don't need to travel to not do so.

And many people who are trying to leave those areas are also finding that even when the trains are running, they're full because it's holiday season and people have already booked.

Obviously, there are many people who are trying to get out of the area, but there are others who fled in the night and are thinking, but our stuff is still there.

So maybe we should hang around in the hope of getting back.

And it's a difficult decision for many people to try and work out what they can do.

It has.

The final stage has been shortened and modified in order to free up firefighters and police to go help fight the flames.

And so instead of over 100 kilometres, it's now going to be 87.

It will start on the Champs-Élysées, do an extra two laps there, go up to Montmartre and then come back down.

So it

It will still have the high points of it, but they decided they needed to make it smaller.

And they've also reduced the what's called the caravan of all the people around it, which also happened right at the start when they wanted to bring them from Spain to France.

And they said, look, can't have too many people on the road.

We'll keep the riders.

So, yes, it's been affected, too.

Oh, it's getting hotter.

We have clouds in the sky today.

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