What is with this weather

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by AngelBlue

Stop bragging miss H LOL....
We not used to such heat.
It's a bu**er when you can't even hang your washing out

I hate dryers, haven't used them in decades, either.
In Colorado we have had rain all day and night lately...it has caused leaks and basement flooding....
hate to complain since roads and homes are VERY flooded all over the US!
Snow melt has caused rivers to simply overflow their banks....my gosh the photos...and fields under several feet of water ....
$million$ of crops lost for the Farmers!!
It's bad.

And the TORNADOES turning towns into sticks here!..Why do they always come when people are sleeping?
And so often to 'kind of poorer people'. :(
Is it just an American phenomenon?....or across the same Latitude? Gee. :(
I know hurricanes happen all over.

[AngelBlue]

Miss H... Guessing we all same .
I've not had a tumble dryer since mine was stolen out of my window in 1985.
So yes, I fully appreciate nature gifting to me a lovely bright sunny warm day, a gentle breeze in order to dry the laundry.
I always know when the rain is violent as it comes into my utility room ( from where I do not know !)

[Guillaume]

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".

[Miss Hepburn]

NL - New London? IDK Netherlands?

[Guillaume]

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

NL - New London? IDK Netherlands?

The Netherlands, if I'm not mistaken Altair is from there!

[Rah nam]

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.

[BigJohn]

On July 15, 1972 at Furnace Creek Ranch, Death Valley, California, USA an unconfirmed temperature was recorded of 93.9 °C/ (201.0 °F probably from a heat burst.

The hottest temperatures ever recorded are from heat bursts. Strange: heat bursts are never mentioned in the news.