Is anyone else freaked out

[georgarina]

by how warm it is?

Passed someone in shorts this evening walking home.

It honestly gives me anxiety

“Global warming nonsense”
Dat you Donald?

You regularly get things like that happen. I have memories on FB popping up where i've posted that it's 16 degrees at 9pm in mid December. I think that might be the same year that we had minus 14 a few weeks later.

[quote LampLighter414]@froobie it's so freaky isn't it. I'm sure someone will try to claim that global warming nonsense.[/quote]
What the actual fuck. What evidence do you need?
We've already crossed the line - so many floods, wildfires, icecap loss in the last couple of years. There are always exceptions but this is the new 'norm' and it's not looking good.

I took dc for a walk on the beach today and it was absolutely packed! Swimmers, surfers, body boarders and several people were barbecuing. It was like August except with more dry robes and wooly hats.

I've been recovering from a nasty chest infection so today was my 1st time walking the dogs for about a week. Half way up the lane, I had to take my coat off and tie it round my waist and my snood came off pretty darned soon after.

We haven't used our log fire once this winter, and have barely touched the LPG in the tank. It's never right, and very worrying.

@Benjispruce5

Not that warm here in U.K.. I still walked the dog in a jumper and coat albeit in done. I’m central.

Where in the UK are you? I am in South Wales and it is easily warm enough to sit outside right now and not be cold. I am cooking and have the windows and doors open because it is so warm.

It’s blowing a hoolie where we are (NW Scottish Highlands) and there are people out walking in shorts!

It's a la niña this year, weather is always really odd when this is the case.

Yes although on been 14degrees here.

DH has declared it cold and lit the fire and I'm dying.

YES I am sweating buckets. I keep opening the windows and DS keeps shutting them. Slept without any covers on last night and was still too hot.

Sorry, just realised you said you are central, Benjispruce5.

I got a load dry on the line today. I've pegged another out over night. Double reckless, risking the doom of New Years Day laundry and clean washing getting darked on.

Saving on the heating bill. My three cats usually snooze by the radiator in my bedoom mid afternoon. They came to do so, looked at the radiator, and walked away in disgust.

A bit yes. Hardly had heating on.

I’m worried later in January or February it’ll be freezing and snowing.

@OllyBJolly

It’s blowing a hoolie where we are (NW Scottish Highlands) and there are people out walking in shorts!

to be fair, I'm north central Scotland and DS (now adult) lives in shorts and goes out walking in them whether it's plus 20 or peeing rain or freezing and snowing. He just doesn't feel the cold at all.

@1forAll74

Saving on the heating bill. My three cats usually snooze by the radiator in my bedoom mid afternoon. They came to do so, looked at the radiator, and walked away in disgust.

@1forAll74 that’s made me snigger!

Yes, it's warm but we've always had odd stretches of warm days in winter. It's not a new thing.

It s mild yes, not warm. We’ve got the windows open as DH has Covid but I can feel the chill.

It's the climate change denial here that is freaking me out.

The ten hottest years on record have all been this century,
with the hottest of these being the last five years.

Isn’t it always annoyingly mild at Christmas when you want to light your candles and fire , wear your Christmas jumper and the sun is splitting the trees and blinding you!

Very mild here in middle England, have had windows open all day. It is freakish but I have a photo of the DC playing in the garden in February about 22 years ago, just in pants and t-shirts.

It will get colder again

the climate change denial here that is freaking me out.

Me too. Terrifying isn't it.

I'm not sure most people realise that climate catastrophe (in Britain) is in their children's immediate futures, and their own. It's not in 1000 years. It's not even in 100 years.

But hey, all the climate scientists must be wrong, because Sally on mumsnet remembers that one time on Christmas day in 1974 it was also mild.

Climate change is absolutely real but a warm winter day in the U.K. Is not, by itself, a sign of climate change. As the climate crisis worsens winters in the U.K. are almost certainly going to get significantly colder, not warmer, as the Gulf Stream continues to weaken. Next week it could be -10 degrees and it would not make climate change any less worth worrying about. Our winters are not going to get milder as the climate crisis worsens.

Well it does not matter really, we get to save money on heating. We have water, we're all right Jack. Unlike the people in parts of Iran who have to fight crocodiles for ever decreasing water supplies, leading some of them to risk their lives to come and live somewhere comfortable and safe like here.
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