Re: Extremes

by Kaere Mon Jun 03, 2019 6:15 am

Fingers crossed then *nods*

by Rogue Tue Jun 04, 2019 12:00 am

Its snowing in Queensland!! Shocked

by Kaere Tue Jun 04, 2019 7:34 am

That didn't take long!

by Agartha Tue Jun 04, 2019 3:51 pm

Wow..... when was the last time it snowed in Australia?

by Rogue Thu Jul 25, 2019 4:24 am

It does snow in Australia, just not normal in tropical Queensland.

by Rogue Thu Jul 25, 2019 4:26 am

Now for some hot stuff!

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/record-breaking-heat-descends-on-europe/news-story/c8fa8c7bbf6fff1c35d29f90a5709e38

by Kaere Thu Jul 25, 2019 10:20 am

I have seen that on the news, the suffering is real! That's painful heat, and no relief Sad

The weather here has been extreme as well, we had a lot of lingering heat and so many damaging thunder and hail storms. There was a tornado at a town about an hour north of us yesterday.

by TrueCrazyLion Thu Jul 25, 2019 11:50 am

Yep, today the UK temperature record for July has been broken - 38C in Cambridge, apparently, and even that could get beaten as the data from across the country hasn’t finished coming in yet.
42.6C in Paris, OMG!

Where I am it’s substantially cooler, 22C. Weird to think it’s so much hotter only a few hundred miles away!

by Agartha Thu Jul 25, 2019 1:19 pm

Glasgow has been very hot (at least for Glasgow), we reached 28 C this afternoon (but no wind and the 'feels like' temp was 30C)..... I have lived in 40+ temps and I feel sorry for people in France.

by Lenzabi Mon Sep 02, 2019 6:24 pm

Hi all. I have seen how Europe has been getting heat blasted, and Australia is having weird weather patterns, all thank to global climate changes. Oh and wildfires all over the globe.

by TrueCrazyLion Mon Sep 02, 2019 7:00 pm

Hi Lenz!
In Scotland the weather has been very strange this year: a very cold spring and early summer, then it suddenly warmed up and we got a very warm and extremely humid July, and the last few weeks it's been much cooler again - but one constant has been the huge amount of rain we've been getting, which has been really high - something like 200% of the usual annual total already in 2019, I think.

It definitely suggests climate change.

by Rogue Sat Feb 08, 2020 9:55 am

A research base in Antarctica has recorded its hottest day on record on the continent, logging a temperature of 18.3 degrees Celsius

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-08/antarctica-records-temperature-of-18.3c-the-hottest-ever/11946092

by Agartha Sat Feb 08, 2020 10:27 am

^^ This is not just sad.... it's scary...

by TrueCrazyLion Sat Feb 08, 2020 10:48 am

Wow!! I remember reading in a school textbook when I was a kid that the record warmest temperature recorded in Antarctica was 12C. It’s now getting warmer in places than Scotland in summer!! History is being rewritten!
Very moving article...!

by Lenzabi Thu Feb 20, 2020 1:32 pm

With the Biosphere becoming erratic, I think my decision to not breed was a good one. My adopted father always used to beg me about Grandkids, but I can barely take care of myself, (especially on disability monthly payments), and even if they had grown up, my own grandkids would be looking at so uncertain a future.

My one brother and sister have spawned out grandkids already so he stopped bugging me, and he is aware of my finances and health issues.

Yes, I know that the world is never certain due to war, illnesses, and other factors, but a possible crashing life support system makes it even less certain.

I hope for the sake of those who will have to live with the world we hand over will have a future, but I also wonder if they will be able to forgive the ones who chose resource grabbing, and profits over life who have come before them and did this to this gem of a world.

I wonder, other memories of worlds that went down, am I here to observe the fall of this one too?

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