It has been another year of five heatwaves, even hotter than last year.
Future Machine appeared at Wolves Lane Centre in London, meeting school and nursery groups on the day of 32 degrees heat. The weather sounds were loud and frightening.
When Future Machine appeared by Lake Windermere on the autumn equinox the weather was warm but back in the average range for September, and the rains had thankfully returned.
Yet, this year, the beginning of El Nino, has broken so many records.
Raining for 40 days in the spring and the hottest UK summer on record.
Antarctic
Huge glaciers melt to sea
Some spring sea ice grows,
Penguins gift a hopeful stone.
https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph
Arctic
As the North Pole melts
Ice and snow turns to water,
Like a lollipop
https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph
Cumbria
We quickly forget
the five heatwaves of summer.
Autumn rains return.
https://futureproofcumbria.org.uk/show-your-stripes-day-what-carlisles-climate-stripes-tell-us/
Planet Earth
El Nino brings more
Mudslides, heat, drought, fire and floods.
Can we change our ways?
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/?intent=121