Does the mild weather this year bother you?

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I was chatting to a friend today about the crapness of the wet weather we were having but how it's eerily mild for January. She said she's quite worried about climate change as a result. What are your thoughts?

@CreekIsRising it fucks me up too. I often a stop motion effect to my vision under led lights. Horrible.

the rate of warming in the last 100 years has been unprecedented

You know what the rate of warming was 2 billion years ago?

I've been noticing the weather changes for a few years now and it is a concern. I am in Scotland, snow used to come around November now its March. It is not as cold is used be in winter. I used to track the weather because I hate ice and I've not had to worry as much. Also last year when we were in Cyprus it was the cold and wet in April and it was the wettest April they had ever had and the heat out there is getting worse.

Anyone who denies it is delusional.

I prefer wet and windy to snow and ice. I loathe snow. I count down until the light mornings and nights are here again as I hate winter. My crocus and snowdrops are up. The daffodils and tulips are starting to come through too which means flip flop season is on it’s way ☺️

Unfortunately we normally get hit by stupid snow in Feb or March. I live in hope it misses us every year!

It's more likely to snow at Easter than it is at Christmas.

We had heavy snow last year too, where I was, but it was quite localised.

I don't like snow or wet/windy - snow because it stops me getting out and wet/windy because I don't want a tree to fall on top of me. Sunny with a slight frost suits me just fine.

I've never known an autumn/early winter like this. So many flooded fields around us. I don't think we have had a frost yet.

Flooded roads have been a major problem and now any rain means roads flood again. It's not just the weather. Lack of maintenance is a big factor. Ditches haven't been cleared in years and drains are all blocked.

We don't normally get much snow in the East Midlands but we usually have had fog and frosts by now. DH wants to mow the lawn. It really could do with it but it's too wet. But we shouldn't be mowing lawns in January.

My garden isn't enjoying it. A lot of stuff just gone black and horrible. I tend to leave some interesting stems of perennials in situ as a bit of ground cover and because some have pretty seed pods on. No seed pods, my herb garden is rotting, I've seen no sign of the primroses and it's all pretty grim.

It worries me. It shouldn't be this mild.

The rain has had huge implications for farmers. I haven't had a night without waking up for worrying about how wet it is since mid November!

I live in England and have had to scrape the car quite a few times this winter. It's just a mild winter. We've had them before.

I’m in Central Europe and the difference since I moved here 10 years ago is scary. We had more snow than a person could deal with for the first 3 or 4 years and each year has got less and less and this year we’ve had one day.
The ski resorts local to us haven’t opened this winter at all. And this is reflected all over Central Europe. It’s very worrying

I hate snow and ice and it’s not the only mild winter we’ve ever had but yes the general upward trend in temperature is of course worrying

It’s freezing in the north east

Yes I'm worried and also about pest explosion esp false widow spiders whose numbers have literally exploded in my area with several houses that I know of in the road experiences infestations where they had zero before.

Having said that I'm quite grateful it's not cold and icy in the dark. I'd rather have snow and ice with longer nights so driving is safer

My lawn is long, but it was too bloody wet to do it more than twice since August, and when it got it's last mowing during a rare sunny afternoon in mid-October, I ended up pulverising a certain patch into mud where I have to turn the mower.

British weather is variable. It's the long term global trends that are telling, not any particular season. This winter has been mild, not particularly warm, but the frosts have been absent and it's been that vile bone-chilling damp cold not a sharp, sunny cold. A few years back (about 2015?) I remember getting to work in December and it was overcast and 13oC... in May it was still 13oC and overcast. My coats have had a lot of use this winter, and I'm so fed up of doing the school run 2/3/4 times a day and being mud splatted up to the backs of my knees because run-off from the woods is creating a semi-permanent stream along the pavement, plus having to change to a different set of shoes umpteen times a day while they all dry out.

I like clear frosty days, but there's that much surface water that everything would turn into a rink if it freezes up now.

Spring doesn't feel that advanced yet. The bulbs are behind recent years for this stage. I've only just seen a couple of tentative snowdrops. Daffodils are just sending out the tips of shoots and I haven't spotted any rogues in a warm sheltered spot getting ahead of themselves. Daylight seems to be stretching out better, but that's because November and December were so overcast and dark that it was advancing to night an hour earlier most evenings.

I just want some warming sunshine and vitamin D again, because July was a bloody long time ago.

• @willothewispa birds are singing more because of led lights. It fucks them up*

Yes, but not here, we are down a little lane without lights and there are only two houses.

Climate change will make Northern European winters colder, not warmer. Cold water from melting glaciers will slow down the warm ocean currents that warm northern Europe, triggering colder winter weather.

@Pingue but that would make actual sense. We don't like that around here.

Weather and climate aren't the same - it's not unusual to have a mild winter pop up in the middle of 'normal' cold winters. But global warming is real - 2019 was the second warmest year on record: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/15/climate/hottest-year-2019.html

Ironically the impact of this might be a colder UK - the UK is only warmed by the jetstream and if climate change flips the jetstream then the UK will have similar temperatures to other northern european countries. Might need a bigger coat!

Where do people live that they haven’t had to wear coats?!
It’s been cold here, we’ve had the fire on!
I think February will be colder, as usual.

It is a concern though.

We're in the south-east so warmer temperatures however...
My Mum planned her garden 17 yrs ago specifically so that there would some form of colour all year round, be it foliage or flowers. Now we have plants that have been flowering since the end of December that should flower end of March plus I have very large bumblebees gorging themselves on the flowers!

From a very insular perspective (and with no scientific basis) I want a cold snap to head off all the fucking germs that have decimated my family since September.

The reception age child has had 10 days off already!!! since September

From a climate change perspective, yes of course its concerning.

It's been bloody freezing here in Edinburgh- cold wet windy sleety. It's snowed in the borders and surrounding the city this January- we rarely get snow anyway because of proximity to the coast.

We have roses blooming blooming and spring bulbs coming up.