I find myself increasingly out of sync with others regarding the weather now.
It will be warm when it isn't supposed to be, and everyone will be talking about how nice it is, and all I see is the approaching end of life as we know it.
I had a few trees that started budding during a warmer week last winter, before getting frozen again.
Some of the buds would literally pop.
They've had a hard time all year and a few just died.
"But yea! everything is fine! I could wear a tshirt that one day, noice!"
Do you have different gardening zones in the UK? Like 7, 8b, 9, etc.
Over here in the States, weather patterns have already changed enough that last year the zones were updated. Seattle used to be 8b and now it's 9 (nine being the warmer of the two).
I'm curious whether you've seen the same change there.
Brisket Summer is best summer! I have friends in Texas that were telling me about grapefruit sized hail years back. We’ll get hail every once in a blue moon, but they’re more a whimsical pea sized variety haha
January brings the snow: makes your feet and fingers glow.
February's ice and sleet freeze the toes right off your feet.
Welcome March with wintery wind; would thou wert not so unkind.
April brings the sweet spring showers... On and on for hours and hours!
Farmers fear unkindly May: Frost by night and hail by day.
June it rains and never stops; thirty days and spoils the crops!
In July the sun is hot. (Is it shining? No it's not.)
August cold and damp and wet, brings more rain than any yet.
Bleak September's mist and mud is enough to chill the blood.
Then October adds a gale, wind, and slush, and rain, and hail.
Dark November's damp and fog; would not do it to a dog.
Freezing wet December then...
Bloody January again!
I'm a Michigander and I'm laughing at the Britt's complaining about cold and hot. Come to the upper Midwest for a few years and you'll realize just how temperate that little island really is.
Yeah I’m just 3 hours drive from Detroit across the border. Whenever I feel like complaining about snow I check the weather and always smile at how much more you Michiganders get dumped on!
Normally I like the snow. I do get tired of it in February though!
August in the uk being called hot is so funny as a hungarian or basically anyone from a warmer country. Also i lived 5 years in ireland and its even worse, its only rain. No hot, no cold just 15c with rain. I heard with global warming its getting more unstable tho.
The summer and autumn had been so wet,
In winter the corn was growing yet,
Twas a piteous sight to see all around,
The crops lie rotting on the ground.
-- Gods Judgement on a Wicked Bishop, Robert Southey, c. 1790
Based upon a legend about a real person from ~900AD or so.
In accurate for those of us in the north west, where it's more like:
Jan - rain
Feb - rain
Mar - rain
Apr - rain
May - rain
Jun - rain
Jul - oh god it's so hot AND HUMID
Aug - drought
Sep - rain
Oct - rain
Nov - rain
Dec - rain
Jan - rain and wind
Feb - rain and wind
Mar - rain
Apr - rain
May - rain and occasional sunny day
Jun - rain mixed with sun
Jul - why is it hot? This is Seattle, we're not supposed to get this hot!
Aug - drought and why is it hot
Sep - rain mixed with sun and fire season
Oct - rain
Nov - rain
Dec - rain
Pretty much same on Long Island except July through mid September is Why can I swim through the air!? I've had enough heat and humidity, just kill me already!
Living in a place with multiple days above 40 in a row makes me miss the mother country. At least with respect to weather. Idk, some people here like summer