Now about this Global Warming 🥶🥶🥶🥶

Down here in deepest Somerset, (this translates to The Land Of The Summer People) so far I have been seriously underwhelmed by Flaming June 🙄I’m starting to consider getting my jeans and riding trousers back out of the cupboard 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶 Oh and apparently Thursday and Friday the rain is returning, well to be fair we haven’t had any for days now 😔😔😔😔

Anybody else ?

Its not Global Warming, its Climate Change. Which models ultimately predict will see the Gulf Stream compromised, this little island in the sea getting colder and the dawn of a new ice age.

But IANAScientist (they are)

Somerset, (this translates to The Land Of The Summer People)

Didn’t know that, how wonderfully poetic. 👍

7 degrees this morning in South Manchester 😐

Snow on the hills oop north

I was away with the little one last week (in porthmadog) The weather was massively disappointing, resorted to putting the heating on in the caravan several times. Same week/same destination last year and it was absolutely roasting, nearly 30 degrees every day!

I’m afraid I’m responsible for this really…. We bought a camper at the end of last year and have yet to have any time away in it in even slightly warm weather. I’m away for a few days from this Sunday so no doubt it’ll be bloody miserable.

Flame away, but when I hear we have had the warmest May since records began, I’m pretty sure that can be defined as gaslighting. But, but it was warmer at night, so…..

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Please f*** off….

it doesn’t seem like it but….

Meteorological spring (March, April and May) was the warmest on record by mean temperature, in figures that were influenced by high overnight temperatures.

The marshals on top of the Long Mynd at this year’s Batch Burner looked frozen. It was a very chilly wind.

I’ve had to put the heating on in June here in Glasgow. Absolutely unheard of. It’s been proper baltic. I was walking the dog last week with my down jacket and wooly hat on, and I’m not someone that is usually bothered by the cold weather but it’s been awful.

I’m afraid I’m responsible for this really….

I’ve been landscaping the garden and have laid a new patio, so I need to take a share of the blame

It was a cold rainy morning in Cambridge, so all the dickheads got in their cars and drove like pricks as they do every time it rains, making things much worse for less selfish road users, and making the climate crisis just a little tiny bit worse, all at once.

Please f*** off….

It’s ok that you don’t understand…

Tell me that you do not understand climate change without telling me.

Wait until the gulfstream stops, then you’ll really have something to complain about

I spent last week camping by Loch Ness.

It made Manchester feel tropical when I got home.

I suggest human sacrifice to cure the problem.

Bit chillier today & it’s overcast but have had some scorchers down South already this May/June!

warm and wet has made for one of the worst nettle and bramble seasons ever ! saw a clump of cow parsley that must have been 15 ft tall the other day!

warm and wet has made for one of the worst nettle and bramble seasons ever

yup some areas of the local woods are absolutely ridiculous and total no-go zones already!

It’s not as warm as usual in Hampshire, but I’m not a fan of approx 25C+ temps that have become the norm through most of summer in the last ten years or so, heatwaves like that were short lived in the early 90s when I came down here.

Once again it’s approx 18C, the forecasted high, little bit of breeze and a bit less cloud than similar temps over most of the last week. For me, this is almost perfect.

But I’m aware that further north and to a lesser extent east of Hampshire, temps are more like what we had around March and some places are getting a lot of rain. My elderly mum in Prestatyn says this summer so far has reminded her of the wet summer there in ’19.

We’re forecast a week of showers, with a daytime lowest high of 16C from Thursday. 🙁

12C in Scottish Borders today. I’ll take a bit of blame we’ve had a couple of days off work. Last summer it seemed to rain everyday I was in the country.

As soon as I can I’m going to live in southern France

I’ve had to put the heating on in June here in Glasgow. Absolutely unheard of. It’s been proper baltic.

Same here in South Manchester. I caved yesterday after I had to dig out my riding trousers and long sleeved jersey. Still got rained on part way around the route, and it was decidedly autumnal. (windy with single figure temps and horizontal rain showers)

brrrrr

Anecdotally….some local authorities in southern Britain finding it increasingly difficult to justify gritting operations during winter as cost of maintaining snowploughs/gritters and rostering trained crews is enormous for fewer and fewer cold nights every year.

Onehundredidiot.

Remember southern France is likely to end up in drought with dangerously high temps🙄

TJ not when I get there. It’ll turn into a tropical paradise.

I am Adams raingod.

“And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.

Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

It’s not unusual.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/322658/monthly-average-daily-temperatures-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/

In an effort to retain the services of my old boiler I’ve been running some cleaner through the system for a few days. The timing of this rust and scale detox may well have been influenced by the chilly weather. I’m not a softy, no, I’m performing some manly maintenance  which happens to involve the boiler running.

I’m pretty sure that can be defined as gaslighting.

No, it’s actually called science where they take loads of measurements all over the world, rather than looking out of the window as you are doing.  If you don’t understand science it’s best to keep quiet otherwise you look like a ****.

I see this thread as just another example of why Britain’s so bad at this.

If this was Germany or Finland they would have a word for “The mounting sense of panic caused by the fact that we’re already into Summer and not once has it been warm enough to eat outside or have a bar-b-que” Or “It’s June and I’ve had to put the heating on again”

Anecdotally….some local authorities in southern Britain finding it increasingly difficult to justify gritting operations during winter as cost of maintaining snowploughs/gritters and rostering trained crews is enormous for fewer and fewer cold nights every year.

was looking at the temps this past winter trying to justify winter tyres for my new car. (Berkshire)

very few days with the daytime/evening temps below 7 degrees (which seems to be the magic cut off for winters).

Only one day (and this is driving nearly every day in winter) did I regret not having them.

In an effort to retain the services of my old boiler I’ve been running some cleaner through the system for a few days. The timing of this rust and scale detox may well have been influenced by the chilly weather. I’m not a softy, no, I’m performing some manly maintenance  which happens to involve the boiler running.

Always advisable to run the boiler once or twice over summer, I’m doing mine today… …by coincidence, honest.

It hailing in Nottingham ffs.

if the Gulf Stream stops does that mean we will have similar weather to the same latitude as North America with proper winters and summers?

The weather patterns have changed that’s for sure, whether it’s man made or the result of our planet doing what it does i don’t know, BUT i’d be AMAZED if as a species we’ve wrecked something in 200 years that is billions of years old.

…but going back to ‘science’, i don’t know why we worship it so much?? I mean, how many times has it been wrong (quite a bit frankly)? This is some of what i remember from the climate hysteria from school / college in the 90’s (all coming from scientists):

1. Norfolk was meant to be under 30 feet of water by the year 2000
2. No oil by 2000
3. Your children wont know what snow is
4. Britain will be Siberia by 2020 (see point 3!)
5. No end in sight of global cooling (then it shifted to global warming practically overnight for some reason?)
6. New York to be underwater by 2015
7. The Maldives will cease to exist by 2018

None of it has happened and it’s not even remotely close, so i won’t be paying much attention to any of the climate nonsense. Currently it seems to be a rouse to just charge you more money in the guise of saving the planet. Despite having had a couple of electric cars over the last decade, they’re really the emperors new clothes as far as a green alternative. Look at London…..we can’t have polluting cars, it’s terrible in the city, people are dying!!!!!!!! Here, have £12.50….on your way! It’s another way to extort money from the public in my opinion wrapped up in fear and guilt.

As for May being the warmest since whenever, it’s nonsense. My log burner usage says much differently.

I am this close >< to getting out the big coats again in sunny Manchester.

I remember warm weather. Maybe Peter Kay will do 30 minutes on the topic for his next tour.

We had more snow on the hills last week and we’ve been struggling to hit double digit temperatures for a couple of weeks. Then again, I was in Ullapool in January when it hit 20C. 😂

Just look up what the next few years have in store for your address….

(You ain’t seen nothing yet, and I’m glad I don’t live in the South East)

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/0295557a52b5446595fc4ba6a97161bb/page/Page

I see this thread as just another example of why Britain’s so bad at this.

I see this thread as showing quite a few folk have their tongues firmly in their cheeks.

Lamp – man made climate change is seen as true by the vast majority of the worlds scientists. Rather trumps your anecdotes and conspiracy theories