So should we be worried, re: unusually warm weather?

[MotherToMany]

Should we be buying air conditioning units in preparation for the a 40c summer?

It was 25c in my car earlier.

I put the air con on in FEBRUARY!

Anyone else slightly freaked out?

My car was frozen this morning, and I had to.scrape.the ice off. Yet it was 17 degrees here on Sunday, and today
It didn't feel cold overnight either... Very odd.

Isn't it the planetary diet we're supposed to be following to do our bit?

We've massively cut down on our meat consumption and dairy too.

Anyway it was freezing here this morning and 17 this afternoon. Absolutely bonkers.

If only people would cut down on flights. The luxury of all luxuries.

Or is it the flexitarian diet? I can't remember now.

Well I'm a veggie who hates Quorn so I won't worry too much about having my air con on in the car .

I had heard about the methane thing a long time ago too.

Have never seen weather like this this in WINTER in my living memory. Last half term we drove to the beach for a walk, all wrapped up with gloves and hats, we went yesterday and I was sweating in just a thin jumper.

We live next to a forest and it smells like late Spring. My hedge is also going green which it wouldn't normally be til April. My cherry tree and Rhododendron bushes also have buds on.

I'm not knocking it. It's lovely to hang washing outside this early. So strange though.

Our little bit to help is cutting down on all single use plastic so soap instead of shower gel and glass or paper packaging where possible, recycling as much as possible, keeping the heating off as much as bearable and eating at least 2 meat free meals a week. It's nothing in the grand scheme of things but it's a start and is easily doable and can be built on.

Sorry, last YEAR on Feb half term we drove to the beach.

I wouldn’t worry about it being too hot. We might soon be too cold. NASA scientists are reporting that the upper atmosphere is cooling and we could be heading for a lot colder weather rather than hot weather due to the lack of sunspots. You can read about it in the NASA website www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/coolingthermosphere.html

Dodie66 You're right. If the Gulf Stream shuts down, due to fresh water entering the oceans from melting ice/snow, the UK will be plunged into a deep freeze that will last many centuries. It's climate change not global warming.

When Donald Trump says climate change is bollocks because he sees a blizzard on the news he gets told off for confusing weather and climate.

Have never seen weather like this this in WINTER in my living memory
You haven’t been alive long enough - I have seen all this before

Of course we should be worried! It's more worrying to me that people still don't get this. It's not meant to be 20C in the middle of February. I know it's a bummer to think about, and lots of us feel powerless, and let's be honest, whatever the UK does we're basically pissing in the wind when the US and China are burning through ten oil fields a day, but climate change is a thing, the temperature today is a data point on an inexorable upward curve, and our children and their children will have to live with the consequences. But hey - ice cream in the sunshine, right? So who gives a shit.

I recall a few warm February's!

Only in Britain could we enjoy a few days of nice weather and get ourselves in a state about it.

It's going to get colder again soon so enjoy it while it lasts.

I will be buying a couple of air con units for our bedrooms this summer. I felt as sick as a parrot for about 3 weeks due to the heat in our bedroom (pushing 30 degrees most days and that's with the curtains shut and the windows closed). I will run it for an hour or so to cool the room before bed, that's it.

Give that I eat hardly any meat and not much dairy (and DH and DD are veggie), have a pretty ecological car that we hardly use, and haven't been on a plane in over 10 years, I don't think a couple of weeks running a couple of air con units for an hour a day will make my carbon footprint as bad as many people's are already.

Upstairs is always hot in summer. We just sleep downstairs if it's too hot...

good for you!

I hope we have a very hot summer as it's good for business

unless you're in the agricultural business, I assume?

Tourism

It's 20° in London Beverly.

@MyBreadIsEggy I feel you! I gave birth in 28 degrees last year! My poor baby was so hot for the first few weeks of his life!

My poor baby was so hot for the first few weeks of his life!

that's hilarious!

your baby just came out of a 37 degrees body, he was completely fine. Babies thrive in warm climate just as much as they do in cold ones, just don't put a winter all in one.

I hope for a glorious summer like last year, cold and damp are depressing. My kids can play outside all day when it's sunny, it's such a better life. Bring on a lovely summer again, but the last couple of days have been wonderful. Still cold enough to have the heating on and winter duvets on the beds, but it's fine in February.

Quote "the nation could be set for the hottest February day in 178 YEARS this week". So it's happened before, long before global warming became a thing. I wouldn't be to worried. in the 1930's they had unusually cold winters, it's just normal weather pattern changes.

It's lovely to hang washing outside this early.
that's a weird comment, some of us have the washing outside all year round as long as it's not raining. It dries just as well anyway.