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This is it - climate change is really beginning to bite

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Wowwee1234 · 11/07/2025 16:29

We know the climate is changing and it is us. This particular heat wave feels like the next step up after a winter of devastating storms.

YABU - It's just too hot
YANBU - This is the taste of things to come.

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Gbafa · 11/07/2025 18:18

Bog off. It's just a bit of hot weather. I like it.

scalt · 11/07/2025 18:17

The cold, the grey and the drizzle will be back soon enough. Meanwhile, I am going to make the most of every ray of sunshine, and hide this thread, like I always do the ones moaning about the heat. Nine such threads so far this summer, and counting.

munchingmunch · 11/07/2025 18:17

Re the 76 heatwave

"That year still holds the record for the longest-lasting heatwave in the UK—16 consecutive days—and the highest June temperature ever recorded"

"However, June 2025 has been hotter when considering average temperatures."

"Furthermore, analysis of historical weather data shows that the summer of 1976 was an isolated event within an otherwise much cooler decade. It also affected a smaller geographic area compared to today's heatwaves."

Locutus2000 · 11/07/2025 18:16

There have always been hot summers, but they are increasing dramatically in number and frequency.

A person raises a fan to their face while wearing a sunhat on a hot, sunny day at Wimbledon on 10 July

UK weather: Is this heat 'just summer'?

2025 is already shaping up to be an extraordinary year for weather records in parts of the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cwyrw66jkkko

BunnyLake · 11/07/2025 18:15

This heatwave is nothing compared to 1976.

Shellyash · 11/07/2025 18:15

LemonLass · 11/07/2025 17:08

Yes it is Summer but UK has never typically matched mainland Europe temperatures 😩

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It's not reached late 30s, early 40s? It's summer at last, been waiting for this for 30 years when I was a kid and we had hot summers

EffinMagicFairy · 11/07/2025 18:15

Rowgtfc72 · 11/07/2025 17:47

1976 springs to mind. I was 4 and definitely remember the heat. And the ladybirds.

I remember this, I was 10, no other summer has matched it for me, yes we’ve had heatwaves since but nothing like 76, this one is starting to though, DC haven’t broken up in England yet, it will probably be down hill from then, I think our summers have got earlier, August for the last few years for me has a September feel.

AliciaLeeming · 11/07/2025 18:12

KPPlumbing · 11/07/2025 18:10

What? We've had 2 years of grey drizzle - and that's been the good days!

We have a summer like this every couple of years. We had a scorcher in 2020, and similar in 2018.

I believe in climate change, I think, but I'm not sure this summer is indicative of anything at all.

Exactly!

I do not deny that the climate is changing but we'll be back to grey skies and drizzle soon enough.

I'm going to enjoy being able to go outside for a bit without worrying that I will trigger a Trigeminal neuralgia attack.

munchingmunch · 11/07/2025 18:12

"Spring 2025 was the UK's warmest and sunniest on record. Hot on its heels, June became the warmest month on record for England."

This is new

KPPlumbing · 11/07/2025 18:10

What? We've had 2 years of grey drizzle - and that's been the good days!

We have a summer like this every couple of years. We had a scorcher in 2020, and similar in 2018.

I believe in climate change, I think, but I'm not sure this summer is indicative of anything at all.

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Wowwee1234 · 11/07/2025 18:08

RampantIvy · 11/07/2025 18:06

This is Woodhead reservoir today

😲 not good

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RampantIvy · 11/07/2025 18:06

This is Woodhead reservoir today

This is it - climate change is really beginning to bite
munchingmunch · 11/07/2025 18:05

July 1960 was comparable I believe.

Was it?

Holluschickie · 11/07/2025 18:05

GoldDuster · 11/07/2025 18:00

We have catastrophically fucked it, yes, but the planet will be fine, it will kick us off like fleas.

I am not denying climate change, for a second, but we'll all be out of here for one reason or another in the blink of an eye.

I am trying to develop this level of detachment but the horrible scenes from Texas - and indeed all over the world- are really terrifying. Logically it's no loss to the world if my family is swept away. But I can't just shrug it off like that.

munchingmunch · 11/07/2025 18:01

If it's warm in summer....oh, it's climate changeIf it cold and rainy all summer, oh it's climate change.

It's the extremes, it's not unusual to be warm in summer but it is unusual to have 30 degrees in June.

GoldDuster · 11/07/2025 18:00

We have catastrophically fucked it, yes, but the planet will be fine, it will kick us off like fleas.

I am not denying climate change, for a second, but we'll all be out of here for one reason or another in the blink of an eye.

Holluschickie · 11/07/2025 17:59

I am really worried. My flat is unbearably hot. This is climate change for sure.

(Before you ask me what I am doing about it, I don't eat meat, and I don't have a car)

Theunamedcat · 11/07/2025 17:56

Yet last year we had week after week of rain

We need to adapt store water when we get too much use it when we get too dry

We are not "much" hotter than the recent past my nan was growing grapes in her garden 20 years ago they grew from regular supermarket grapes by mistake

This happened in 1976 we had standpipes shared baths and a ladybird infestation we also had a local measles epidemic

Bearing in mind the past is a good prediction of the future why haven't we learned and adapted in fifty years?

The human race needs to adapt or die

BlueJuniper94 · 11/07/2025 17:55

Chiseltip · 11/07/2025 16:30

😂

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Why is that funny

TarquinsTurnips · 11/07/2025 17:54

It's not just about one hot summer. If you google it, you can find predictions of how much of UK coast will be under water due to rising sea levels. It is a lot. Enough to make you think would I want to live in a seaside town.

Unfortunately we catastrophically fucked it.

ThePhantomoftheEcobubbleOpera · 11/07/2025 17:48

If it's warm in summer....oh, it's climate change
If it cold and rainy all summer, oh it's climate change.
Ditto for every other season.

It is not that I don't think that there's climate change or that we don't have a part to play in that change. But the sheer glee and enthusiasm for rustling up a bit of original carbon footprint sin with every passing weather observation makes me feel like these doomsters are the modern day sandwich board 'The End is Nigh' killjoys.

Parker231 · 11/07/2025 17:48

alittleprivacy · 11/07/2025 17:38

Camp Mystic was built in a flood zone A. It was a once in a several hundred year flood, it was absolutely not unprecedented.

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Kerr County, where the camp was located is actually a hillier part of Texas than surrounding counties. Four months of rainfall in two hours contributed to the disaster.

MaidOfSteel · 11/07/2025 17:47

In my part of western Scotland, today is the first warm & sunny day of this summer. There has been no prolonged heat wave here. All climate change seems to be doing for us here is making it nearly always overcast and rainy.

Rowgtfc72 · 11/07/2025 17:47

1976 springs to mind. I was 4 and definitely remember the heat. And the ladybirds.

Grainsandgains · 11/07/2025 17:45

alittleprivacy · 11/07/2025 17:27

Maybe actually check your history. Seriously. We were born coming out of a mini ice Age, but even at that, all the uncompromised data shows no particular change in global temperatures since the forties.

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Not denying climate xhanges here, but I have to agree.
Every summer and every winter for last 2 decades living in UK I hear "but we never have this weather, that's why we are not used to it"...

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