Did anyone writing this stuff stick their head out the window lately?
After all the rain and snow. Who the heck makes this up and who allows it to happen?
We’re lucky that most of the wet weather has been in the south since the start of March and the immediate [long range forecast as of today](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/long-range-forecast) is for wet weather to continue in the south over the next month. The last few years in the south April has been v dry.
We had a very dry January last year made up for a wet Feb/March and then very dry until Sept-December where thankfully it was wetter. This year an average January immediately pulled down by a dry Feb, luckily near me we had a month’s average rainfall in 2 days last week.
Yeah, even in scotland our winter felt particularly dry this year. Lots of cold. Frosty nights instead of the usual drizzle.
Despite it being unrelentingly shit weather since October, my local reservoir is still less than half full.
I mean… This while winter was just one big heat wave
Our climate is going to get worse and worse every year and we can’t keep pretending as a society that we can carry on ‘as normal’.
It we for example, rewilded land and planted more trees that would create more rain, and trees reduce ambient air temperature as well making hot summers easier to manage.
Adjacent to this, I’m seeing UK preppers (who, admittedly, plan for worst-case) and more cautious forecasters predicting extensive food shortages. Poor weather due to the climate emergency (and thus poorer harvests), rising energy costs due to Putin being a gormless warlord, and Brexit causing delays that discourage suppliers with limited stock to send it here, seem like they might be combining into a shitstorm.
Anyone more informed and intelligent than I care to opine on this?
Yet the rivers in my area are close to bursting banks…
The water wars are coming guys! Get your mad maxmobiles ready!
Last year the off road routes I run on in the summer/autumn were dry from February. January this year until the last week or so getting some much needed rain in. Last summer I brought a water butt so the garden will always get a little water in the summer even though last year we avoided a hosepipe ban due to it being in a underground water area which has better reserves than overground water sources. They have been warning this year we might get a ban due to low water levels
Climate change is still not taken seriously enough by too many people. This is climate change in action and it is going to get worse. People think climate change is still 20-30 years away, not realising it is a gradual process and 2050 is when scientists expect it to be at catastrophic levels for humanity, not when it begins. Those who think they will be dead when climate change hits must be planning to commit suicide very soon if they know what they are talking about.
I’m not sure we ever properly got out of the drought.
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Did anyone writing this stuff stick their head out the window lately?
After all the rain and snow. Who the heck makes this up and who allows it to happen?
We’re lucky that most of the wet weather has been in the south since the start of March and the immediate [long range forecast as of today](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/long-range-forecast) is for wet weather to continue in the south over the next month. The last few years in the south April has been v dry.
We had a very dry January last year made up for a wet Feb/March and then very dry until Sept-December where thankfully it was wetter. This year an average January immediately pulled down by a dry Feb, luckily near me we had a month’s average rainfall in 2 days last week.
Yeah, even in scotland our winter felt particularly dry this year. Lots of cold. Frosty nights instead of the usual drizzle.
Maybe we should buy back some of [those reservoirs private water firms sold](https://www.edie.net/trade-union-blames-uk-drought-situation-on-reservoir-closure/) then…StOnKs
It’s the wrong sort of rain we have been having.
Despite it being unrelentingly shit weather since October, my local reservoir is still less than half full.
I mean… This while winter was just one big heat wave
Our climate is going to get worse and worse every year and we can’t keep pretending as a society that we can carry on ‘as normal’.
It we for example, rewilded land and planted more trees that would create more rain, and trees reduce ambient air temperature as well making hot summers easier to manage.
Adjacent to this, I’m seeing UK preppers (who, admittedly, plan for worst-case) and more cautious forecasters predicting extensive food shortages. Poor weather due to the climate emergency (and thus poorer harvests), rising energy costs due to Putin being a gormless warlord, and Brexit causing delays that discourage suppliers with limited stock to send it here, seem like they might be combining into a shitstorm.
Anyone more informed and intelligent than I care to opine on this?
Yet the rivers in my area are close to bursting banks…
The water wars are coming guys! Get your mad maxmobiles ready!
Last year the off road routes I run on in the summer/autumn were dry from February. January this year until the last week or so getting some much needed rain in. Last summer I brought a water butt so the garden will always get a little water in the summer even though last year we avoided a hosepipe ban due to it being in a underground water area which has better reserves than overground water sources. They have been warning this year we might get a ban due to low water levels
Climate change is still not taken seriously enough by too many people. This is climate change in action and it is going to get worse. People think climate change is still 20-30 years away, not realising it is a gradual process and 2050 is when scientists expect it to be at catastrophic levels for humanity, not when it begins. Those who think they will be dead when climate change hits must be planning to commit suicide very soon if they know what they are talking about.
I’m not sure we ever properly got out of the drought.