Yeah I don’t think we should do anything about this, seems normal for every year one after another to be the hottest
69420epicgay on
Was quite a good year for weather. Was very sunny since mid February. Not many major heatwaves, just kinda warm throughout the summer. If we can keep this – brilliant I say
ImitatorOfFools on
To the surprise of nobody.
Summer was just a three-month long drought.
But even December was pushing into double figures regularly, even with a lot of rain around.
The only month that seems to be cold nowadays is January.
Advanced_Basic on
Not a big deal, the average temperature will even out after the AMOC collapses.
Neither_Process_7847 on
That long hot spring was quite something, definitely. And the fruit that followed…sadly the less said about the autumn the better. Surely an anomaly year rather than a true sign of climate change, but we will not enjoy it nearly as much if that pattern gets normalised. (granted all the authorities have to do is build a couple more reservoirs to overcome some of the worst effects, but that would involve useful effort…)
LordLucian on
Are does the government want to actually tackle it yet or are we happy letting the crops die off in record heat?
dick_piana on
I heard somewhere that now Southern parts of UK can compete with France when it comes to grapes for wine making, as they get too hot and dry for it, and we go from too cold and wet to just right.
kotwin on
Most of the ponds in my town dried out by mid summer, it was miserable
mgorgey on
Summer was lovely. Beautiful sunshine day after day.
Koush on
Hope we get less Pollen this year, it was a nightmare last year. Couldn’t even BBQ.
Maximum-Success-229 on
The biggest polluters are the militaries of the worlds… No one even talks about it.
Your average person can maximum change his car.. other than that not much more . Constant bombing and flying planes is the issue
iamezekiel1_14 on
I’m waiting for the influx of climate refugees who will need a hotel room to live in. It’s coming. Give it about 20 years (if Putin doesn’t push the button first). You could probably speed it up by voting Reform in 2029. Because of Capitalism and the uncontrolled desire to buy all manner of un-needed shit from the likes of Temu – this isn’t changing any time soon. Happy 2026.
89ElRay on
And yet, because this news was reported during a cold and snowy spell, the comments on social media will be chockfull of laughing emojis and “funny” jokes.
Tammer_Stern on
The changing climate is worrying if you have eg a young son for sure.
It can help to think about some of the good things the UK is doing. For example, the Dogger Bank wind farm is going to be absolutely enormous and beneficial.
The Green Link cables allowing the national grid to more effectively use Scottish wind power will be brilliant when finished this decade.
In Edinburgh at least, PFAS in drinking water is below EU problem levels and air quality is good.
The Princess Elisabeth island being built between the UK and France will host a massive wind farm that will benefit lots of European countries and possibly the UK too.
Not relevant to us, but Ethiopia’s huge dam is up and running and is absolutely enormous and hopefully it can be shared to bring more peace and improve lives of people who have no electricity in that region. It’s worth a YouTube watch.
In the UK, the power company control over power generation is a massive problem and is costing us billions each year as a country, and as consumers.
NaiveBadgers on
I honestly don’t know the solution to this.
You can spread awareness as much as you like, but even average people do t really care that much.
And if you think they do, ask them to use their washing machine once a week instead of 10.. wear their jeans more times.. take less foreign holidays.. turn their heating down to 11c.. scrap their Range Rover and get a small EV..
Guarantee, most of the time, all you’ll get is naught but justification as to why they can’t do those things..
And they’ll point to world leaders flying all over the globe in private jets causing more pollution in one trip than some people cause in a year..
magrandan on
Not hot enough or long enough, but I am willing to wait couple more years as earth warms up. Ideally from March – December we should have long sunny days. UK is beautiful when sunny. Also we need 4 day work week but that is for another topic.
Astriania on
This is a combination of climate and weather. The unusually warm and sunny weather in spring and early summer, and the unusually warm weather in Nov/Dec, were mostly weather – at times it was 10C warmer than the average for the time of year, because of where the weather systems were bringing air from. Same as why it being freezing today doesn’t mean that climate change has reversed.
But repeatedly breaking the record for “hottest year ever” every few years clearly shows that climate change is real and happening to us now.
There’s only so much the UK can do about not making that worse in future. We are a political leader in this area, and also a leader on the ground, but we’re a relatively small nation and the big dog in this kennel, the US, doesn’t give a shit.
So our policy needs to be all about how to make the UK more resilient to the effects of climate change. We’re pretty lucky, we’re a temperate island that isn’t going to get uninhabitably hot or dry. The most important thing for us is good water management, both to mitigate floods from rainier storms, and to get water to cropland in dry spells under hotter summer skies.
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Yeah I don’t think we should do anything about this, seems normal for every year one after another to be the hottest
Was quite a good year for weather. Was very sunny since mid February. Not many major heatwaves, just kinda warm throughout the summer. If we can keep this – brilliant I say
To the surprise of nobody.
Summer was just a three-month long drought.
But even December was pushing into double figures regularly, even with a lot of rain around.
The only month that seems to be cold nowadays is January.
Not a big deal, the average temperature will even out after the AMOC collapses.
That long hot spring was quite something, definitely. And the fruit that followed…sadly the less said about the autumn the better. Surely an anomaly year rather than a true sign of climate change, but we will not enjoy it nearly as much if that pattern gets normalised. (granted all the authorities have to do is build a couple more reservoirs to overcome some of the worst effects, but that would involve useful effort…)
Are does the government want to actually tackle it yet or are we happy letting the crops die off in record heat?
I heard somewhere that now Southern parts of UK can compete with France when it comes to grapes for wine making, as they get too hot and dry for it, and we go from too cold and wet to just right.
Most of the ponds in my town dried out by mid summer, it was miserable
Summer was lovely. Beautiful sunshine day after day.
Hope we get less Pollen this year, it was a nightmare last year. Couldn’t even BBQ.
The biggest polluters are the militaries of the worlds… No one even talks about it.
Your average person can maximum change his car.. other than that not much more . Constant bombing and flying planes is the issue
I’m waiting for the influx of climate refugees who will need a hotel room to live in. It’s coming. Give it about 20 years (if Putin doesn’t push the button first). You could probably speed it up by voting Reform in 2029. Because of Capitalism and the uncontrolled desire to buy all manner of un-needed shit from the likes of Temu – this isn’t changing any time soon. Happy 2026.
And yet, because this news was reported during a cold and snowy spell, the comments on social media will be chockfull of laughing emojis and “funny” jokes.
The changing climate is worrying if you have eg a young son for sure.
It can help to think about some of the good things the UK is doing. For example, the Dogger Bank wind farm is going to be absolutely enormous and beneficial.
The Green Link cables allowing the national grid to more effectively use Scottish wind power will be brilliant when finished this decade.
In Edinburgh at least, PFAS in drinking water is below EU problem levels and air quality is good.
The Princess Elisabeth island being built between the UK and France will host a massive wind farm that will benefit lots of European countries and possibly the UK too.
Not relevant to us, but Ethiopia’s huge dam is up and running and is absolutely enormous and hopefully it can be shared to bring more peace and improve lives of people who have no electricity in that region. It’s worth a YouTube watch.
In the UK, the power company control over power generation is a massive problem and is costing us billions each year as a country, and as consumers.
I honestly don’t know the solution to this.
You can spread awareness as much as you like, but even average people do t really care that much.
And if you think they do, ask them to use their washing machine once a week instead of 10.. wear their jeans more times.. take less foreign holidays.. turn their heating down to 11c.. scrap their Range Rover and get a small EV..
Guarantee, most of the time, all you’ll get is naught but justification as to why they can’t do those things..
And they’ll point to world leaders flying all over the globe in private jets causing more pollution in one trip than some people cause in a year..
Not hot enough or long enough, but I am willing to wait couple more years as earth warms up. Ideally from March – December we should have long sunny days. UK is beautiful when sunny. Also we need 4 day work week but that is for another topic.
This is a combination of climate and weather. The unusually warm and sunny weather in spring and early summer, and the unusually warm weather in Nov/Dec, were mostly weather – at times it was 10C warmer than the average for the time of year, because of where the weather systems were bringing air from. Same as why it being freezing today doesn’t mean that climate change has reversed.
But repeatedly breaking the record for “hottest year ever” every few years clearly shows that climate change is real and happening to us now.
There’s only so much the UK can do about not making that worse in future. We are a political leader in this area, and also a leader on the ground, but we’re a relatively small nation and the big dog in this kennel, the US, doesn’t give a shit.
So our policy needs to be all about how to make the UK more resilient to the effects of climate change. We’re pretty lucky, we’re a temperate island that isn’t going to get uninhabitably hot or dry. The most important thing for us is good water management, both to mitigate floods from rainier storms, and to get water to cropland in dry spells under hotter summer skies.