What is with this weather
 

I have said before I don't buy into this climate change. to me what is happening has happened before and it will go on.
I came from the doctors Wednesday it rained in fact it poured down ,within an hour the weather was nice again
But yesterday was a new ball game
we had very bad rain hail thunder and lightening.
I have never seen rain come down like that before. we had thunder storms for over 4 hours,
Some places were flooded and we don't get flooding where i am as I live on high ground. Yet the town which is 7 miles away only had a bit of rain and nothing else.
We see a lot of rain here but never have I seen it like that before. I live in Wales I don't know what it was like anywhere else


Namaste

There was a tornado !! over the Montana Mountain range in the US.
Like 10,000 ft snow capped peaks! Last week!
Look at this odd photo of it:

https://images.foxweather.com/static....png?ve=1&tl=1

Climates are changing, no doubt, just look around. What is not clear or understood is, what triggers these changes?

I like it to be a little warmer in Melbourne. No frost perhaps, but instead it seems to become colder. Over the last 40+ years, I have never seen -2 degrees, but last winter we had -2 more than once.

The small picture is a cold early spring (gone now..), the larger picture is hotter mean temperatures, less snow and ice overall. One year or a few years don't change the warming trend which is measured over a much longer period of time.

It really has been a very grim and wet year thus far in the UK.
And even THEN I heard mention on the news last week about imminent hosepipe bans !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I read today that june we could be having 35c heat from Africa sept could be warm to.


Namaste

But quite a lot of rain in Europe for the coming week.
It's good for agriculture.

Depends on the crop.:tongue:
Various onions, potatoes and beets don't do well.

But for nature it is overall good. Better a bit too much water than too little.

Crazy ques - 35C/95F is unusual in England in June? It isn't here in the US. ..NY across the Midwest to Calif.
Now, more South it can be WAY hotter thru August!! Shocking numbers, people die!
Wales is the same latitude as Canada, I see - that would be very uncomfortable.

I learned as a kid from an Aunt in Ontario, Canada to close all the shades all day in the summer...
I see my friends don't know that.
I have 2 large windows facing south! But no curtains - I bought a roll of screen to cover them, with thumb tacks...
What a difference just that made!!
Over the years 2 trees are so big I don't have to- I found out neighbors call my house the 'shaded house'!! Ha...
Poor people bake in the sun all day beating down on them that never planted trees. :(

Stop bragging miss H LOL....
We not used to such heat.
But then again we don't expect. Torrential rain for first half of year.
It's a bu**er when you can't even hang your washing out
( It's free)