What's Your Weather Like July 2024

The book gave no further information? I can find no reference to warm blooded beetles anywhere so further information would be appreciated. Are the experts named?

 

I'm watching a line of very heavy rain running north of me, on the radar.
I keep hearing thunder now as well.
I hope it stays up over you @wiseowl

 

Its here now.

 

I don't read the book, I listen to her reading of it (audible). I admit, I have a habit of falling asleep in between, not because it's boring, but it's very calming after a week full of stress.
Corrction: she doesn't say warm/cold blooded, she says warm/cold loving.

It's him Russell Coope - Wikipedia and I just listened on my laptop to the recording, at the end of my chapter 3, Roberts describes that it was not that the earth was entirely covered in ice, but there have been glaciers melting, freezing, melting again in warmer periods, and some are still frozen. Coope had studied gravel pits in Worcestershire and analysed mud around bones of mammals. He found lots of insects, and beetle wing cases. The colours were important to identify them to which group/family they belonged to. He used radiocarbon dating and found that they were around 42,000 years ago, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2992682, today said between 43,000 and 48,000 years so Roberts in the meantime due to better analysis methods. A colder phase and no sign of pine, willow etc, Worcestershire was around 45,000 years ago a treeless tundra. In between, he found signs of a sudden warmer climate. Pollen from plants today known from Southern Sweden implying a warmer temperature. It was the beetle fossils that revealed that some where only known in Arctic/Siberia, others are still present in Britain today. Coope was sure that the layers were undisturbed and the only conclusion that was possible is these beetles had lived in a period of extreme climate change.

I hope this helps @NigelJ

 

It's useful to be an enthusiast about history: The "Medieval Warming Period" (900-1300 AD) was preceded by a mini 'ice age' that started and ended within a 30 year period - all confirmed by written records and tree dendrochronology. Then, there was the "Little Ice Age" which started in the 14th century, peaking in the 16th/17th centuries (the Thames freezing over, etc,). Not so little for the generations living during those centuries. We have changing temperatures and weather patterns now. In my American days, I would have said go figure.

 

Thunder here on top of the heavy rain, an hour ago. Blue skies now. This is England, after all!

 

Sunny but very windy/gusty, so much so we have come in to escape it as it feels unpleasant but is 24c.

 

Climate envy on my part!

 

The downpour got to us too. Got trapped in the GH.

 

Cold and grey all day, but now at eight in the evening, warm and sunny with not a cloud in the sky. A clear night ahead. Forecast temperature at 6am tomorrow - a whopping 5°C.

 

A balmy, English summer's day then!

 

Good morning all, clear sky and light winds temp 9c to 18c
Precipitation 0%
Sunrise 4.57
Sunset 21.28
Maybe some rain later