I had an argument with some pillock on facebook who was saying ‘it was hot once in 76’, I had to tell him his memory if obviously fucked because 1. data says so and 2. the changes since I was a kid in the 80’s are massive and noticeable to anybody.

When I was a kid, you were lucky if you got a few days over 20 degrees over summer, if you had a week over 20 it was considered a heatwave of costa del sol proportions. For the last decade or so I’ve noticed spring starts a lot earlier now and summers go on a lot longer, even in winter I’ve seen cold like I’ve never seen on a few occasions (last few have been weirdly warm though).

Last year it was 38 degrees where I live in fuckin Newcastle for over a week, opening the door was like stepping off the plane in Florida. How fucking stupid do you have to be to be my age or older and not accept this reality staring us all in the fucking face?