Tropical weather guage
 

Down here on the coast we use a coconut hanging from a rope!

Coconut moving.........windy
Coconut still................calm
Coconut wet................raining
Coconut dry..................sunny
Coconut white..............snowing
Coconut invisable........fog
Coconut gone..............hurricane!

The coconut is surprisingly accurate!

I’m not altogether sure that the weather is going nuts. At the time this post was written, we were just starting to exit the pandemic, and as a collective world, our energies were starting to calm down. The UK weather in summer 2021 oscillated between heatwaves and cooler, more showers conditions. Basically a normal summer here.

The sun has always shone, places have always got hot, places have always got cold, rain has always fallen out of the sky and flooded places, the wind has always blown. Sometimes it gets stronger and sometimes not. The world has also heated up and cooled down since time immemorial. During the Medieval warm period, we had vineyards in southern Britain, but we don’t now. That’s not to minimise the effect of climate change, but to say that it has always happened and that it certainly isn’t unprecedented.