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What is going on with the weather?

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lavenderandwisteria · 08/08/2021 07:13

It’s constant grey skies, rain, yet muggy and hot at night.

I never know what to dress ds in, never know what to dress myself in!

Longing for some lovely sunny days, summer dresses and sandals, paddling pools, in august. Is it really too much to ask?

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Littlemessymiss · 08/08/2021 08:28

I am a farmer and harvest this year is looking pretty grim. Everyone is behind. Very few fields around here are harvested. The barley that has gone, the straw remains slowly turning into mush.
There will be high food prices to follow if next week doesn’t improve.

frumpety · 08/08/2021 08:50

Naaaaah funny you should mention the drains, I was driving down a main road into our town the other day and all the drains at the top of the hill had plants growing out of them, ( not at the sides, but up through the grates) if we get torrential rain, the water will wash down the hill onto the new housing estate.

megletthesecond · 08/08/2021 17:37

Same here blank. I'm dreading this being it and a long drag through autumn and winter.

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MobyDicksTinyCanoe · 08/08/2021 17:40

August is always crap...... The summer hols should be June / July.

Doodlebug71 · 08/08/2021 17:58

The Gulf stream is apparently the weakest it's been for 1000 years. I was reading an article last week, and the scientist/s who's/ve been studying the data for years is/are very concerned.

I know that when I was out walking the dog last week, there was a very autumnal smell to the morning. I wear scarves, and wished I'd worn two instead of the usual one that morning. Been wearing two (cotton ones) ever since. Gardening friends who are also dog walkers have noticed that tomatoes are taking bloody ages to ripen...

It's bloody cold. We prefer to sit outside and eat our dinner in the garden, then enjoy the rest of the evening at this time of year. Instead, it's chucking it down and blustery. We really, really want a nice, bright, sliding door verandah, but that ain't happening, because the funds simply aren't available, and nor is the space.

www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/05/unimaginably-catastrophic-researchers-fear-gulf-stream-system-could-collapse

Tulipomania · 08/08/2021 18:01

Wake up and smell the coffee.

This is climate change, and it's going to get worse.

Doodlebug71 · 08/08/2021 18:04

@Littlemessymiss

I am a farmer and harvest this year is looking pretty grim. Everyone is behind. Very few fields around here are harvested. The barley that has gone, the straw remains slowly turning into mush. There will be high food prices to follow if next week doesn’t improve.

@Littlemessymiss: my gardening friends and Ihave noticed this. Tomatoes and other things taking bloody ages to even start to ripen or set. I harvested three large runner beans yesterday, but all the others are tiny. I've had a few courgettes off, and today, I noticed that our apple trees are ahead of where they should be. It's autumnal out there, and has been for the first week of august.

I think UK temps are supposed to improve next week, and I really hope they do, because those of us who spend lots of time outside are noticing all this, and it's not good, is it?

Gertie75 · 08/08/2021 18:06

I'm currently sat outside my caravan in Wales eating an ice-cream and looking at beautiful blue skies over the hills, 5 hours ago I was on top of one of the hills wearing a vest and two coats while the wind howled around me!
I much prefer this though to that awful heat a couple of weeks ago

heldinadream · 08/08/2021 18:15

Of course it is climate change. Many countries having catastrophic fires, floods, crop failures.
It's not ok any more not to at least know that this is happening.

LysistrataVickers · 08/08/2021 18:25

It's crap and I'm extremely fed up of it. Almost the minute the schools broke up it started being shite and hasn't let up yet. August in this country is bobbins for weather. Even September is usually better! But then the kids are back at school 😤

IfNot · 08/08/2021 20:44

Autumn has always started around harvest time-that's not new. School holidays in England should definitely be June/July, as they have always gone into Autumn. What is new is the weeks of no rain, drought in April and then weeks of rain. UK used to have a gentle climate, now it's getting more extreme.

BogRollBOGOF · 09/08/2021 10:50

@LysistrataVickers

The weather broke 2.5 hours after my DCs finished school!

August always has been the wettest summer month. It's crap that it's the majority of the summer holiday in England

2 years ago, it was grey and relentlessly rainy from August right through to the first weekend of lockdown in March. No bonfire night in Nov 19 as everywhere was saturated or submerged. We'd better have a bonfire night for the first time since 2018 this November...

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