One thing we have learnt this week is that we are in a heat wave.\u00a0 Last summer whilst the US baked in a drought it rained and rained here.\u00a0 When I want away last year and returned everything in the garden had been in stasis.\u00a0 Nothing had grown for two weeks.\u00a0 This year could not be more different.\u00a0 Plants had tripled in size.\u00a0 Tomatoes (indoors) had gone from flower to ripe in 6 weeks.<\/p>\n
At the same time the weather we are basking in has a number of implications.\u00a0 Our weather is affected by the jet stream and this is becoming increasingly erratic and is slowing down.\u00a0 This may have something to do with the Arctic sea ice melting in Summer (i.e. climate change).\u00a0 If this is the case we can look forward to increasingly extreme summers. This heat wave has already lead to more deaths (old people dying of heat) and younger ones drowning by cooling off in old quarries (as has happened this week).\u00a0 We\u00a0 are also a rush to buy air con systems which will stretch our electricity supply still further.\u00a0 One the plus side we can expect a rush of people having solar panels fitted to their houses.\u00a0 Food security is affected too.\u00a0 After last years terrible harvests due to rain some types of crops will still be affected by lack of water and the heat such as root vegetables (berries, Apples and salad crops have done really well though).<\/p>\n
So the extreme weather is something we will have adapt very carefully and thoughtfully to.<\/p>\n
Neil<\/p>\n
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One thing we have learnt this week is that we are in a heat wave.\u00a0 Last summer whilst the US baked in a drought it rained and rained here.\u00a0 When I want away last year and returned everything in the … Continue reading