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Saw on the news this morning that they're predicting this summer to be "typically" British, and that we will not have the amount of rain we had last year. More a case of sunshine and showers.

Let's see eh?

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I heard on the radio that the weather this year is going to be cooler due to La Niña.

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The Times is reporting a cool & cloudy summer holidays, with the promise of an Indian Summer in September.

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Well they were hardly going to say a cool and cloudy summer with even more crap to follow were they?
I'm not a weather man, but I could guess that settled weather would follow unsettled!

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yeah, none taken like.

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Sorry TS.......just re-read the thread and my reply does sound a tad bombastic and possibly offensive!

I just have a chip on my shoulder about meteorologists who are paid good money to be for the most part, poor guessers!

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to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

The only thing that the weather forecasters can tell us with any accuracy is what it did yesterday!! (And they sometimes get that wrong.)

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Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm sure I can remember having an obscenely hot summer a couple of years ago & being promised by the doom & gloom guys that this was effect of global warming & things were if anything going to get hotter?!should I start using plastic carrier bags again?!

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i want to know, why, if' we are getting global warming, why i remember having hot summers when a kid, lots of sunburn and trips to the beach, and getting the paddling pool out in the garden ..... but for the last few years have hardly even got a tan, and every year on my birthday in august the traditional bbq has been held under a gazebo to stop it being totally rained off ..... global cooling more like. i was really hoping all this supposed global warming was going to make summers like they used to be

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That's why the pundits have renamed it from "global warming" to "climate change"

Look out for further renaming to "ice age" or "underwater age" anytime soon ...

Looks like they were using old models for this prediction. There's a big right wing conspiracy to lead us all into a fog of disinformation. I wonder though, after watching Gardeners World on Climate Change using the iplayer, how can they predict that we will soon be able to grow Mediterranean type plants based on a rise in temperatures? No matter how hot or wet it gets in either season, England will never move closer to the equator! Surely the amount of sunlight is a factor in whether a plant will adapt?! Anybody know??

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Nature is adapting all the time: for example, we're seeing those big Hornet Mimic Hoverflies now, which used to be rare in UK. Ditto Ring Necked Parakeets. That's just 2 examples.
Animals and even plants will migrate ... we don't need to move nearer the equator to see our landscape change.

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But.... But.... :-)

Many plants and animals are perfectly adapted to certain weather patterns. I have no doubt that some die-hard species will adapt and indeed we might even see rapid speciation like Darwins finches, but evolution works on a timescale of thousands and even millions of years, not a hundred.

I think there's a reason why French wine is the best in the world. This may be The End of the Vine As We Know It.

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