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Maybe it's just me.Too true but we wait in anticipation for what the summer brings . . . Who's going to get torched this year?
But I'm expecting nothing good.
Maybe it's just me.Too true but we wait in anticipation for what the summer brings . . . Who's going to get torched this year?
Maybe it's just me.
But I'm expecting nothing good.
Two years ago, what's happened since?The Guardian is freaking out
‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
On 18 March, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station on the east Antarctic plateau documented a remarkable event. They recorded the largest jump in temperature ever measured at a meteorological centre on Earth. According to their instruments, the region that day experienced a rise of 38.5C above its seasonal average: a world record.
This startling leap – in the coldest place on the planet – left polar researchers struggling for words to describe it. “It is simply mind-boggling,” said Prof Michael Meredith, science leader at the British Antarctic Survey. “In sub-zero temperatures such a massive leap is tolerable but if we had a 40C rise in the UK now that would take temperatures for a spring day to over 50C – and that would be deadly for the population.”
This amazement was shared by glaciologist Prof Martin Siegert, of the University of Exeter. “No one in our community thought that anything like this could ever happen. It is extraordinary and a real concern,” he told the Observer. “We are now having to wrestle with something that is completely unprecedented.”
‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystemuk.yahoo.com
Indeed, that shows just how drastic is the climate changing when a single month it's both the warmest and coldest on record.I thought of a new game...Google "warmest April" and "coldest April", "wettest March" and "driest March" etc.
2012: Ireland's warmest March in 50 years
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2013: Ireland's coldest March
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2022: Britain's coldest April in 70 years:
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2022: Earth's 5th warmest April:
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2023: Iceland's coldest March:
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2023: Earth's second-warmest March:
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Maybe the same happened in the early 1800's, who knows?Indeed, that shows just how drastic is the climate changing when a single month it's both the warmest and coldest on record.
Like it starts of normalish then southerly winds blow real hot. . . 5-6 days later a NW'erly blows feckin freezing snow and ice from greenland then the south blows up again but this time it's roasting for two days . . . Geddit?
It's of little surprise these days
Maybe it did, but the thing is, it's happening again, it's been observed that massive volcanic eruptions tend to screen out the sunlight for a while leading to cooling and reduced crops - that's ancient science there so . . .Maybe the same happened in the early 1800's, who knows?
Love are there any direct flights from Sligo to Lourdes?
You need a work done on ye.
Love are there any direct flights from Sligo to Lourdes?
You need a work done on ye.
Weather.France's worst drought since records began has turned lush vegetation into arid fields of brown crops, shrivelling under what is now the fourth heatwave of the year.
In Vincent Favreau's vegetable farm, where he produces food for a hundred families in the area, the parched earth has stunted the growth of the cabbages. His potato plants are burnt out, producing just half the crop of a normal year.
"Either the vegetables will die of thirst, or they won't develop enough during this crucial period of growth," he said, sifting through the dry soil, which he hasn't been able to water since restrictions came in two weeks ago.
"With this heat and wind, we can't compensate for what the sun is evaporating. I've never seen something like this in my twenty-two years here. If it doesn't rain within two months, it'll be a disaster."
Loire Valley: Intense European heatwave parches France's 'garden'
The Loire Valley is key to French farming, but it is being devastated by a fourth heatwave this year.www.bbc.com
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French drought alert after driest winter since 1959
French drought alert after driest winter since 1959
France has had no significant rainfall for 32 days and now faces restrictions, the government says.www.bbc.com
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Weather.It was close to record drought for two years in a row and then overnight . . .
‘Record rainfall’
Weather forecaster Météo-France said that between mid-October and mid-November, France had record rainfall.
During these dates, there was an average cumulative rainfall of 237.3 millimetres, far above the previous winter record of 187.1 millimetres, which happened between January 13 and February 11, 1988, it said.
(+) Record rain refills water table in France but issues remain for 2024
As of December 1, rainfall had refilled almost half to ‘above-average’ levels for the seasonwww.connexionfrance.com
. . . And is ongoing
Rain floods southern France for third time in six months
Severe floods have hit the French Southwest city of Saintes (Charente-Maritime) for the third time in just six months.www.euronews.com
Famine, unemployment, agricultural crash.Weather.