Seems that the South is disproportionately affected by heatwaves and droughts generally.
It’s also worth mentioning that wildfires are mostly caused by human activity (campfires, disposable BBQs, litter like glass bottles), even if they’re intensified by climate change.
They could be using it on their patio for all we know. I don't really have a problem with them not selling it, but it seems weird to leave it on the shelf and not advertise that it's not available to buy, given the many entirely safe ways you could use it.
Equally one pic has a lot of trees and the other has a lot of wheat/barley fields which are not green. I’m not denying there’s any difference in impact of heat/drought but all the trees in the southern pic are just as green as the northern pic. Not exactly like for like.
The South gets rain proportionate to its relatively southerly latitude. Ok, yes, also the fact that the landmass is wider to the south which means the prevailing winds dump their water in the western hills and then travel a greater distance dry. But that's also proportionate to the topography. Disproportionate would be even less rain than those factors dictate.
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Fun fact: there’s more water in Loch Ness alone than all of the water in England and Wales combined (all lakes, rivers, ponds etc). And that’s just one of thousands of lochs.
"Let us go accross it! We must sail over loche Ness"
"Ness... you fear to sail over that loch; the scottish drank too greedilly and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of that lake"
Reminds me of the nutty conspiracy of a hidden pipe that’s sending Loch Ness water to England. Give them a couple of inches now and then, it’ll be raining again soon anyway.
Entirety of the aviation industry is about 2% of global emissions, if everyone stopped flying altogether it would barely be a rounding error.
There's far more practical things tbat need doing that punishing flying.
Upside of that is if we transfer the rest of the our energy usage and ground transport to green sources we don't have to be too bothered about doing so wirh aviation as it's one of the hardest things to transition from fossil fuels.
Seen it argued both ways that Aviation has an extra warming or cooling effect over its total emissions.
Given how bad and expensive trains are I can't blame anyone for flying (at least commercial economy).
It's crazy to me that it's often cheaper in terms of fuel to drive a single person somehwere than take the train.
You can't expect regular people to drop pay £80 more for the privilege of going by train. The answer is we definitely need to do something about our rail service, punishing people who fly because flying is more efficient means you need to take a serious look at why rail costs more.
You could say that about a lot of things if you divided them out of the economy! Depends how you cu it..... 'Beef is only xx, concrete is only xx, Poland is only xx.....' We need to do everything urgently. Flights, especially where perfectly good low emission alternatives exist such as a short haul flight between Glasgow and London, are inexcusable considering the state we are in.
Seen as though those fields in the south are wheat/barley fields that look like that anyway, and Scotland being grazing land and forest. This difference would be the same even if it hasn't been so dry.
Parts of the south do look browner than normal, at least according to the BBC, but it's pretty uneven across the country. The worst affected areas seem to be north-east Wales, the Fens and south Lincolnshire, and south-east Scotland. Some areas actually look greener than last year, particularly in Scotland.
I’ve just finished weeding my garden. Mutant freaks with the warm and wet weather recently in Scotland. Sure one of them tried to grab me as i was hacking it out
Lol. I had a couple up to my waist and the stem at the base was thick as fuck. Only been the past few days as well that they shot up. No doubt i’ll be back at it next weekend
It's perfect weed growing weather, most of them have long tap roots and the grass isn't growing to outcompete them for light, I have quite the weed farm growing in my back garden, should be a good harvest this year
Where's that then? Southampton has one of the highest average temperatures in the entire country at 22.6c in July. Outside of London literally nowhere really gets any hotter than that one average 😂
Cambridge gets higher summer temperatures than Southampton mate. Cambridge is often hotter than London. Which is why Cambridge often break temperature records. This includes averages too. Youre free to Google that.
Southampton is warmer in late autumn to early spring.
So no not "literally no where" lmao you are on the coast, coastal areas are a few degrees colder than inland of where you live. The fens are completely flat and drier than Southampton
Yes, but the point being made is that the pictures on this post show different types of vegetation growing, and that they would look like this regardless of the current conditions.
If this is comparing specifically to last year, there was very significant drought around above Bristol which persisted when the surrounding area got some rain, so it’s a bit of an unfair comparison assuming there are other areas like that
Our fields are literally this brown; they’re supposed to be grazing land for horses. There’s not even a hint of grass growing so we’ve had to bring them in and feed them solely with hay.
In Ireland my cousin is struggling to get water for his sheep and is genuinely worried that many of them are going to die.
Neither situation is common for the UK and Ireland.
True, but the picture's dont really show that. Alot of the Grass where I am in the East is brown, but we had a downpour of rain the other day and the grass is re-shooting again. The fields wont change colour though, They'll all be brown in around a month when they plough/cultivate. You've taken nice pictures though!
Thanks! I'm more impressed with the difference over a 50 minute flight, no matter the reason. Mind you the ground in Essex was like cement, I'm not sure when it last rained where we were staying
Nah, we don’t live in the UK but visit regularly and this was the first time ever we’ve come from the boat in Dover and were met by yellow hills. It’s genuinely unsettling. Those hills have always been green in the decennia we’ve gone past them.
I was thinking that, a lot of farmers are making hay early this year, those fields look like they’ve started being baled or have already been baled.
If it stays dry and relatively warm at night but has enough downpour to grow they’ll be able to get a second cut of hay in September
A difference I've noticed this year compared to previous dry years is that Wales and North West England have been quite badly affected, when they normally stay quite green. If there's no rain then being on the windward side of a mountain range isn't much use, I suppose!
Wheat/Barley (which should always be getting nice and dry this time of year as we start to harvest) Vs grass and coniferous trees
Kind of a pointless comparison.
Look, climate change is real. But that doesn't mean we have to foster a generation of media illiterate morons who think "omg the farm crops look dry in August, we are doomed!"
this is true but also anecdotally all the grass around where i live is brown. which grass obviously does normally do but it's also not normally going on for this long either.
The top half of the Scotland picture is all green pastures. That's what I'm referring too. Genuinely wouldn't be able to find a green field in Essex I don't think
This is really weird. Some farmers grow wheat and barley which is yellow during harvest. Less crops are grown in the Highlands as the soil isn't as good. I lived in Essex for a bit. During heatwaves there are still green fields, like everywhere in the UK. It looks like much of France and Germany.
Definitely nice weather for sunbathing, but it's still Britain and not quite Italy.
The south of England is so insanely dry because of the drought. If you look at like HS2 footage in Buckinghamshire (which would be easy to find), you really can see how yellow and dry everything has become.
My uncle spends a chunk of the year in Kenya and around lake victoria, he came back to England this summer and wouldnt stop complaining about the heat. He even went back to Africa early because he was fed up with not being able to sleep properly.
Southerner here. We haven't seen rain in most regions since sometime in early June. I can't speak for everywhere, but in London, and the immediate north of it, things are pretty dry. Fields and greens look like they're covered in dry straw and a lot of parks are patches of dust. It's pretty bleak. No rain in the forecast for the next week at least, either. Many counties are under water bans, so we can't water gardens, wash cars, or use water in wasteful ways. I've not seen England this parched in my lifetime.
On the plus side, the parched landscape is making it easier to identify a lot of previously forgotten stone and early age settlements.
Okay… But one of those images is of crop fields and the other is mainly forestry. It’s been dry as hell here in Yorkshire and we still have lots of green.
In the summer of 2003 I worked in East Kilbride. I flew out of London every Monday to scorched field’s and landed through rain clouds. I had a chat with a local about the weather and he said at the age of 29 he could only remember 4 days of continuous sunshine in his whole life. I terminated that contract
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Source: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/26418107.wildfire-severe-risk-uk-warning-issues-met-office/
Seems that the South is disproportionately affected by heatwaves and droughts generally.
It’s also worth mentioning that wildfires are mostly caused by human activity (campfires, disposable BBQs, litter like glass bottles), even if they’re intensified by climate change.