There is no need to shout, we are neither deaf or idiots.
Have you missed - mini earthquakes,
torrential rain, storms, lightning strikes, flooding, loss of life, human and animal,
trees uprooted,
The Hurricane
mini tornadoes (in the Midlands)
winter of 1962/1963, some great photography of this on YT,
rivers and lakes froze, -21 lowest recorded temperature
then flooding in the great thaw
blistering scorching days of 40+ degrees,
summer of ‘76, many of us here will remember that well (baby boom 1977)
reservoirs dried, drowned villages appeared, standpipes, water shortages,
no bottled water then
vicious frosts, black ice on roads, oil tanker cannot reach isolated farms
roads impassable, transport impacted, parts of Scotland and Cornwall without
electricity, no heat or light until help arrives,
tinder dry moorland alight
all sudden, unpredicted, devastating, treacherous British weather,
giving credence to the saying,
if you want to know what the weather is doing, look out of the window
which is self explanatory if Jack Frost has called, rain lashed or sun bright
it’s true also that we had long hot summers in the fifties and sixties,
reliable, welcome, planned days out, this is not a collective false memory,
this is how it was, September too, reluctantly into scratchy school socks,
wool uniform, balmy glorious days in our temperate island home