monbiot tweet

[RenewableCandy]

Oh sh!t that takes us past St Swithin's day, so we're stuck with it for more than another month

[biffvernon]

I predict Thursday to be this week's driest day.

More seriously, the rain in Southern Russia seems pretty dreadful.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18758895

[kenneal - lagger]

"............. but what happens in the summer is still relatively unknown."

I thought we could all agree that it rains rather more than usual in the UK!!

[UndercoverElephant]

Is UE as happy as a fungus in the damp?

He is now. I've never seen so many mushrooms at the start of July as I have in the last three days. Given that there is no current sign of the weather patterns changing, this is effectively the mushroom season starting early.

[nexus]

Oh jolly good an 'upside' of climate chaos........

[Blue Peter]

What is a 'bad summer'?

No sustained sun and high temperatures? By that definition, yes, the 6th bad summer.

And, the pattern may be for warm, sunny Septembers, which we've had a few of (don't know about 6, but certainly the last couple of years). The old boy at the allotment tells me that they're predicting another one now,


Peter.

Oh look! (via Stuart Staniford's blog), this is interesting. Could the 6 poor summers in a row be related to the big loss of arctic ice in 2007?


Peter.

Edit: To remove the reference to the loss of 'artic lice'.