Rain

Yesterday it rained for the first time in a month. It didn’t last long. My cat came in a bit damp, so I looked outside and there were droplets of water on leaves.

England and Wales are officially in drought conditions. A major Nature Reserve at Mimsmere was destroyed by fire. Whole parts of it that supported rare species of plants and animals are gone.

But big companies want drilling for oil, digging for coal, while European countries are ablaze and Canada boreal forest is threatened.

Listen to the world, not politicians, bankers and industrialists.

I want cold!

Winter, snow, rain

Memory of snow

Sitting here, I wish for a chill in the air. Yesterday was St Swithens day. They say if it rains during the day it will rain for another 40 days and nights… No chance of that…

The UK is suffering it’s 3rd heatwave in a couple of months and I’ve not been able to do anything. Temperatures have been over 35 degrees Celcius in some places. The world is definitely heating and water reservoirs are depleted.

Meanwhile we have politicians both here (conservatives and reform) and in the USA who want us to “drill baby drill”, seeing only short term gain and a lack of understanding of climate science. Now  smoke from wildfires in Canada drifts on the wind southwards and the USA have been complaining!

Maybe hell will be on Earth after all, but the majority of the population do not deserve to suffer it.

Wildfires

At the moment there are 19 active wildfires in the UK. They have been caused by three successive heatwaves in the UK since May.

Moorland near Glossop in Derbyshire is on fire. There is another caused by kids setting off fireworks I think. Their friend had drowned in a lake after getting into difficulties, and the idea was to remember him?

Also a forest fire in Conwy, Wales. A fire on Saddleworth Moor near Rochdale. Another on the Hampshire-Surrey border.

There are more massive fires in Southern Spain where several people have been killed or injured, and also in France and Greece.

So those climate change deniers have a lot to answer for.

Blooming

Well the plants are getting well watered by the rain that has poured down here from the start of July after a hot June.

I wish I could send some of this rain south East towards the Mediterranean and its Islands. Plus Portugal and North Africa where there have been more wildfires. People have died. Meanwhile we are dripping wet.

I’m not complaining, as things go I prefer a cooler summer but I’m not sure how the climate will change in the future. We has grass fires here last year…. I would like to think if we can get our act together climate disaster can be avoided