Along with all the disruption is the food production issues that climate change will cause. Lower yields means higher prices and scarcity and everybody suffers, consumers and economies.
Towards the end of September where we live in the middle of Berkshire, there was a fierce storm, we’ve had quite a few this year, rain has been the dominant weather feature; however two weeks ago, we had a storm that made us feel a bit scared. It was sudden and very intense, more like a tropical storm and one of the thunder claps left my ears ringing, it felt like a bomb had gone off in our neighbourhood. So much so, the usually inactive by day WhatsApp group I’m part of woke up; “Bloody hell, what was that? Felt the ground shake”.
Later that day, I heard that Aldershot, just 18 miles away had been struck by a tornado.
Tornadoes do happen in the uk but mainly never cause damage to property or tend to be more waterspout. So this is certainly unnerving.
We live in a village in the East Midlands; two years ago we had a hailstorm that that damaged dozens of cars (literally hammered) not to mention glass and minor property damage. Last weekend there was a thunder strike that hit the ground at the BASE of a tree about fifteen feet from our flat and churned the earth up - luckily we are at a high elevation and the biblical rainfall doesn’t really affect us, but all these ‘once in a generation’ events are almost common. I think there might be something in this ‘climate change’.
Along with all the disruption is the food production issues that climate change will cause. Lower yields means higher prices and scarcity and everybody suffers, consumers and economies.
Towards the end of September where we live in the middle of Berkshire, there was a fierce storm, we’ve had quite a few this year, rain has been the dominant weather feature; however two weeks ago, we had a storm that made us feel a bit scared. It was sudden and very intense, more like a tropical storm and one of the thunder claps left my ears ringing, it felt like a bomb had gone off in our neighbourhood. So much so, the usually inactive by day WhatsApp group I’m part of woke up; “Bloody hell, what was that? Felt the ground shake”.
Later that day, I heard that Aldershot, just 18 miles away had been struck by a tornado.
Tornadoes do happen in the uk but mainly never cause damage to property or tend to be more waterspout. So this is certainly unnerving.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/21/tornado-twists-through-aldershot-damaging-homes-and-trees
We live in a village in the East Midlands; two years ago we had a hailstorm that that damaged dozens of cars (literally hammered) not to mention glass and minor property damage. Last weekend there was a thunder strike that hit the ground at the BASE of a tree about fifteen feet from our flat and churned the earth up - luckily we are at a high elevation and the biblical rainfall doesn’t really affect us, but all these ‘once in a generation’ events are almost common. I think there might be something in this ‘climate change’.