Crappy UK summers.....?

Question

The last 2 summers in the UK have been abysmal, with heavy rain almost continuously and problems with flooding. Could this just be a freak weather cycle and we will get our summers back or is this type of weather set to become the norm due to climate change?

Answer 1

Global warming = climate change with 'change' being the operative word. As the planet warms, so all the 'normal' weather patterns start shifting around, generally becoming more extreme (more rain, more drought, hotter, colder, etc) until such time as a new equilibrium is established.

So, yes, the weather you are experiencing is in accordance with AGW theory.

Of course, random fluctuations in local weather patterns could also explain it. The fact, however, that people around the world are all complaining of "unseasonal" weather may perhaps make one think that it is more related to AGW than the normal vagaries of weather.

If so, we have to be prepared for more extremes - maybe it means we will have a warm winter (here in Holland, March-May was nicer than July & August!)

Answer 2

You're not alone!

Here in the Pac. N.W., we have had a strange summer. Two days ago it was reaching record hot temps, now we are getting record cold,and SNOW in the passes! We usually have very little rainfall in August. Now we under a flash flood watch!

The ever widening parameters of severe weather records, is a clear sign that abrupt global climate change is happening right now!  

Answer 3

Go back and read weather reports from the late 40s and early 50s and you will then understand the climate mode we are now shifting into. As they say what goes around, comes around when the cycle returns again. It seems having gone hot for 20 years it is now going cool for 20 or so years. Read your history books and lay out the cycles like the farmer’s almanac does and you will see what is coming next. The AGW crowd have never hard of the farmers almanac unfortunately or they would not make such huge errors.

Answer 4

I don't know but the weather had better get its act together soon or I'm moving countries.

Answer 5

We have the same in the Netherlands. Even this year in France there has been a lot of rain. I think it's really the climate changing. Our winters are milder and wetter from rain, and our summers are also becoming much wetter.

Hmm, it worries me a bit because I live nearby the sea and also under the sealevel.

But really, I'm very sure that this is a sign of climate change! And it's not a very good sign.

Two years ago I was in Asia, and asked many people there if they saw signs about a changing climate. They did. I think the climate is changing faster then was expected a few years ago.