English weather /Vancouver weather

I posted on the climate thread, but thought this might be of interest,

Car windows have exploded, blinds have melted and front doors have shattered. Plus animals have to be constantly hosed to try to get their core temperature down and people are dying.

Imagine if this was in a third world country. Their crops would be completely ruined and on top of everything there would be starvation.

Plus. Pick some roses before the rain takes them again.

Vancouver usually has a similar climate to the UK so this is most unusual. It would be too hot for me, glad for our cool climate at the moment and that lovely rain, more next week so must cut the grass today! And get the washing out!

Antonia
I take a lot of interest in climate change and I do believe we have passed the point of no return.

When I read about this sort of thing, let alone the wildfires that all too often follow, I vow never to complain about wet, grey weather ever again.

I suspect if shocking extreme conditions can happen somewhere like Vancouver, the rest of us should properly be paying attention now.

As Tizliz said, no one wants to face the prospect of having less of anything. There was a brief period during the early stages of the pandemic when we flirted with the notion of “all being in it together” but it didn’t last and people and governments are hurtling back to what they like to call “normal”. Sadly for us all, finite resources will not provide that normality infinitely and really hard decisions are going to have to be made.

Unless we can stop the rush to have more - central heating/air conditioning/mobiles/TVs/cars/foreign holidays - we will not stop global warming. But no country will stop as this means less employment and more (relative) poverty. I don’t believe the whole world will ever work together. Will the ‘haves’ give to the ‘have nots’, will the ‘have nots’ accept they can’t have it all.

I'm no expert, but hope that at least we could slow it down if every country in the world cooperated.

We need urgent action from all goverments right now.
This was about climate change. Do you think there is still time to stop it, or has the horse bolted already? Interested.

I'm in regular touch with my cousin in Vancouver (we met when I started researching my dna a few months ago) and it's absolutely awful there at the moment. Be thankful for our more equitable climate. We need urgent action from all goverments right now.

I wouldn't want to be in temperatures anywhere near those in some parts of the US and Canada at the moment, find it too hot here! I hope they don't get fires.

I have an online friend who lives in the US and they have temps around 103F today - she has moved herself down into her basement as it's the coolest part of her house. She said it's forecast to last 5 days so has her fingers crossed that's correct.

My friend's daughter lives near Vancouver and she is worried about fires starting up.

I have a friend in living near Vancouver. They are struggling. They normally have the same sort of weather that we have here on the South Coast, and so housing is simply not equipped to deal with such extremes.

Elderly folk are dying because your body has to work so hard in the heat trying to keep cool, which is why it is sensible to simply lay about.

I hadn't read about the extreme heat in Vancouver, unbelievable 49 degrees sounds more like Australia

We were in Vancouver a few years ago and chatting to a waitress she told us that they had one year when it rained every day from September until early into the following year. A lovely city and far more temperate than other parts of Canada, it seems to have the same sort of rainfall similar to Seattle in the US, not that far down the coast. Although clearly not at the moment, it was very green when we were there, maybe not the case right now, I agree Roses such high temperatures are unbearable and I wouldn't like to have to live in a country where they experience those, it confines those people to an indoor life as much as bad weather does. It hasn't been a good summer so far this year, I think here in the south we've come to expect that we will get a hot summer every year so this current weather we are experiencing is a lot chillier.