‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain

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• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Almost as if the climate was changing.

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  • JiffyBag@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hold on whilst I find a historical weather period from a million years ago where this happened and the world didn’t end. (/denial)

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    • Johnnyvibrant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The world won’t end…humankind’s ability to successfully live off it will do.

      A million years is pretty much unimaginable to a person, it’s nothing to the earth.

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• thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  February: “oh this climate change is no good, it’s so rainy all the time!”

  March: “hey we just booked our second trip to Magaluf, Ryanair was super cheap so we’re going twice this year, but our main holiday in Florida is still this Summer.”

  April: “well, time to trade in the Range Rover for a new 26 plate model. Maybe the 6 litre turbo diesel this time? We need the power. Not ready for all this electric nonsense though.”

  May: “we’re running the tumble dryer almost every day now, we’re spending so much on electricity we might as well get a second hot tub!”

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• MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Our (UK) social glue is talking about the weather. We are rain experts. When we speak out about the rain, you know it’s bad.

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is it true that like the Inuit have hundreds of words for snow, that the brittish have hundreds of words for rain?

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    • MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We have ways to describe rain from “that fine rain that gets you really wet”, to “its pissing down” and “cats & dogs”. Not quite Inuit levels of specificity. However, you aren’t even British if you can’t hold a solid rain conversation

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    • zwerg@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, on both counts.

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• tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It rains in the UK. When the Romans invaded they noticed how cloudy and rainy the place is. Still is.

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not sure rain in winter is a confused season. The reason we’re having is exceptional in any season.

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