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Changing seasons

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You're definitely in the wrong county and country.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Posy said:
    Vey much. We get long periods of unchanging weather. I remember as a child that when you were planning an outing you could seldom tell if the weather would hold for a few days. This summer we had months without a drop of rain. It's hotter, too. And in winter it rains day after day. Flooding is more common. I am nearly 70 and I certainly see big changes.
    @Posy I am about half your age and the seasons are noticeably different even from when I was a child. Much milder, wetter winters (meaning far fewer snowball fights with my family, which I miss); much hotter, longer, drier summers (I remember August being the last month with a chance of properly warm weather when I was little, then it extended into September, now it's often October!); and it feels like storms are more frequent. It feels like the last decade in particular has seen a huge shift in what we can expect from our weather and what is coming to be accepted as "normal". I am a relatively young person and the fact that I have seen this kind of shift frightens me quite a lot, really.
  • TeTe Posts: 193
    Yes climate change is a huge concern but can only be tackled as a worldwide effort, i hate to say it but i believe we are far too late to alter mother nature.

    "There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true"
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    It is alarming. It troubles me most that we could live better lives in relation to the planet but we don't.  I don't mean a bit of recycling and giving up plastic,  though that has its  value, I mean the senseless  destruction of the land for profit. If rich nations lived more simply and poor ones were less corrupt..... Oh no! I'm  starting a rant. Over and out!
  • TeTe Posts: 193
    Posy said:
    It is alarming. It troubles me most that we could live better lives in relation to the planet but we don't.  I don't mean a bit of recycling and giving up plastic,  though that has its  value, I mean the senseless  destruction of the land for profit. If rich nations lived more simply and poor ones were less corrupt..... Oh no! I'm  starting a rant. Over and out!
    Mankind has always been too greedy, unfortunately we are our own downfall
    "There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true"
  • I like the weather here in Surrey as is, only wish there were more rain in the summer. I also can’t stand the really short days and long nights in winter, but this is not actually weather anyway. 
    Surrey
  • delskidelski Posts: 274
    Only ever rains when I go to bed and stops raining when I get up and/or go out.
    A steady constant temperature so that I get to wear a jacket all the time and don't sweat when out and about.
    Never above 20oC, and only then with a really good breeze.
    No snow allowed except in the mountains and the artic/antarctica. I tried to build a snowman this year and felt 0 joy. It was unpleasant.
    None of which is possible without our current laws of physics/nature.
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