What is with this weather

Native spirit · #1 12-05-2023, 08:16 PM

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

Miss Hepburn · #2 12-05-2023, 08:25 PM

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

Rah nam · #3 13-05-2023, 06:21 AM

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.

Altair · #4 13-05-2023, 08:11 AM

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.

Rah nam · #5 09-07-2023, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Rah nam

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.

So far so good, no night frost as yet, and we are almost halfway through winter. Mostly 9–10 degrees Celsius at minimum.
I have not installed the heater in my greenhouse.

AngelBlue · #6 13-05-2023, 11:24 AM

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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Native spirit · #7 13-05-2023, 08:37 PM

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

Namaste

Guillaume · #8 14-05-2023, 06:54 AM

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

Altair · #9 14-05-2023, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Guillaume

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

Depends on the crop.

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.

Guillaume · #10 14-05-2023, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Altair

Depends on the crop.

Various onions, potatoes and beets don't do well.

lol yeah you definitely need more sun in NL !

Anyways, it depends on the crop, less and less, as everything tends to be cultivated under greenhouses.
So we have tomatoes from the NL and from southern Spain, all year long, and both cultivated under greenhouses : in NL to keep them warm and in Spain to retain as much water as possible.

So on the one hand there are people who claim permaculture is the future, we should go back to traditional ways, at a more human scale etc, but on the other hand they're much more dependent on the weather than these "food factories".