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If a human being is able to survive the heatwave, it’s not because of an overpriced fan, and also not because you finally convinced the landlord to get an AC. Those multiple stinging showers that freeze your head for the main part of the day are also not the reason why we are still alive after the record three digits of heat. It’s because we know it’s temporary, so yep, life is a placebo, everyone.
But with so many climate anomalies happening all over the world in the past years, it’s hard to stay positive. What if we are doomed to hurricanes, floods, droughts, record snowfalls, and chunks of ice falling from the sky like it's not a big deal? I mean, have we played with Mother Nature for too long?
So in order to pay tribute to the powers of weather that we often underestimate, and to reflect on the scope and frequency of such crazy climate conditions, we are about to dive into pics that show how your plans should never dare to challenge the weather forecast.
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Summers In England
Apachebathmat 3 years ago
This picture is incomplete, why aren’t there skinny pale men walking around with no top on and the names of their last 8 girlfriends tattooed on their chest, while drinking cans of carling? That’s what it’s like here right now, the sun brings every dickhead to the yard
Olivia Payne-Alatsari 3 years ago
With their mate in a corsa with the dodgy exhaust speeding up the road; just to speed off again 5 mins later after the rowdy bunch have got in, yelling loud enough for two roads down to hear them!
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Mazer 3 years ago
I call that Charlton Heston weather, since you know the heavens will open up any minute
Hermione Granger 3 years ago
Any of y’all like storm watching? I love when a big thunderstorm rolls through. My friends and I have a tradition to go to their house (just down the road) and sit in their breezeway to watch the storm.
Pink Floydian Panda 3 years ago (edited)
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun....and if the sun don't come you get yer tan from standing in the English rain.......goo goo ga joob!
Kimberly Buchanan 3 years ago
Those are the blackest clouds I've ever seen. So incredible looking!
Memere 3 years ago
I have seen very similar skies here in the Midwestern U.S. Stood on my front porch more than once, dry as a desert, watching it rain on the neighbor's yard across the street!
Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago
I remember seeing clouds like these on the border of Colorado and Kansas recently. Kinda glad I wasn't driving through it.
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 3 years ago
New Orleans is like this, too. Sunshine on one side of town, monsoon weather on the other.
RoseTheMad 3 years ago
you can bet that somehow it's still hot and sticky as f**k, too. British summer sucks.
Lucky2BAlive 3 years ago
We sometimes experience this in TX. The sun becomes just brilliant for a few moments and then the sunsets are spectacular.
Nic Soderman 3 years ago
How can you tell it's raining when in Scotland? You can't see to the other side of the Loch. How can you tell it's going to start raining when in Scotland? You can see to the other side of the Loch.
Víctor Alfonso García Olmo 3 years ago
Agreed!!!! I'd got the flu in august in London! I'm southern spanish!
Marnie 3 years ago
I miss thunderstorms. In Minnesota, USA, we used to get numerous thunderstorms each spring and into the summer. I don't think we've had even one this year. (70% of the state is in severe drought.) Five years ago, I told my son we had about 5 years before climate change would really start to have major impacts on life. Here it is! Spend your money while you can! Don't have children!
Judy Reynolds 3 years ago
That it is - I love the contrast between the dark sky and the bright sunshine on the houses!
Mark Kelly 3 years ago
Glad I live in Canada. We've had over 36 days with no rain and even longer with barely any. Not even many clouds.
Bacony Cakes 3 years ago
...Until you want it to rain, in which case the United Kingdom will firmly embed itself in the Sahara Desert.
Jo Falkinder 3 years ago
Has any photo ever been upvoted so much. We are a nation of sufferers.
Olivia Payne-Alatsari 3 years ago
Nothing like great British weather! We've had a heatwave for a week and today it chucked it down for 10 mins before the sun came out again. Tomorrow is hot again and then thunderstorms for a good week, wouldn't have it any other way!
Lillukka79 3 years ago
The first time I visited the Stonehenge this was the weather. Got an amazing photo with thd inky clouds and the stones in sunshine.
Fiona Parky 3 years ago
There’s a saying round here for exactly that kind of sky. You’ll see people look up and say “It’s a bit black over our Bill’s Mother’s”. No one knows who Bill is, no one knows where his mum lives but that’s how we describe impending cloudburst.
Moo Moo Futch 3 years ago
Right now I'm on day five of no sleep due to it being stiflingly hot in the house and I have an indoor cat so I can't have the doors open for a through breeze.
Samantha PandaNotBored 3 years ago
Ahh yes, what we wouldn’t do for that at the moment. I’m actually f up with this sun and HEAT 😂
Kevin Donegan 3 years ago
That could be a photo of the Pacific Northwest region of the US as well.
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
If the photographer turns 180 degrees it's probably clear blue skies and sunshine.
Joshua Selbitschka 3 years ago
Can... Can we get that here? I would love a good storm for once. Instead of the random piddlings of rain we've been getting.
Jo Jo Jones 3 years ago
It's boiling hot in England right now, I'm praying for a sky like that to come soon
Giles McArdell 3 years ago
I love it when it does this, always reminds me of old horror films where they need a dark sky so they just slap a dark filter on the camera.
Bored Panda talked to Rob Jones, a TV meteorologist and hurricane chaser who runs an all-things-weather TikTok channel where he shares interesting facts and peculiarities about climate anomalies. As a child living in Florida, Rob said he was interested in their daily summertime thunderstorms and seasonal threats from hurricanes. “So it was only natural to attend the University of Miami (Hurricanes), study weather, and pursue a career in meteorology,” he added.
When it comes to the most extreme weather conditions, Rob named places like Death Valley, California, or Antarctica. But, generally, “people don’t live in the places where the most extreme temperatures occur on earth,” he said.
However, things are changing now. “The temperature in places like the village of Lytton, British Columbia in Canada reached 49.6°C in June 2021 when the average high is closer to 25°C,” Rob said and added that: “Some scientists have calculated that this is a one in 10,000 year heat event for that part of the world.”
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The meteorologist suggested that “a warming world may have been a factor in placing the right weather patterns in place to have such an extreme event in that location. Just think, Las Vegas, Nevada has never recorded a temperature that high!”
“When we talk about extreme weather, we think of hurricanes and tornadoes. The 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season was extremely active by measure of sheer number of storms, but not the most active by other measures. There’s always more than one metric to look at when defining hurricanes since they are very complex beings.”
Rob continued: “The most intense landfalling hurricane of the season was Laura, which struck with 240 km/h winds. We tend to see more about this type of weather because of the incredible images. There were a total of 81 storm-related deaths from Laura, but imagine that the heatwave last month in British Columbia, Canada probably had more fatalities with the Vancouver coroner indicating that there were more than 100 deaths suspected from the heat,” he explained.
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However, when it comes to extreme weather events, Rob suggests not starting to jump to conclusions immediately. “First, let me start off by explaining that 1 single extreme weather event cannot be definitively linked to climate change. Weather refers to short-term atmospheric conditions, while climate is the average of the weather over a long period of time, such as the climatological standard of 30 years.”
Rob added that “while it might be tempting to use an extreme weather event to highlight climate change, it is not scientifically good practice (or accurate) to do so.”
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Having said that, the meteorologist said that there are a few reasons why it seems like we are seeing more frequent extreme weather events. “The first is that everyone has a camera with them at all times in order to capture intense images of extreme weather. The second reason is that we disseminate information more and more widely everyday through traditional media, new media, and social media.”
“Yet another reason we capture more frequent extreme weather is because we are building large cities in places that experience extreme weather events like hurricanes, for example. Miami had a population of 300 people 125 years ago and now it encompasses a megalopolis of over 6,000,000 people. Wouldn’t more people experience hurricanes if we build large cities in a hurricane zone?”
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Rob explained further: “We build homes in river flood plains, construct dams, levies, and other unnatural barriers in locations that are naturally meant to flood. Sometimes 'human nature' is no match for Mother Nature and she reclaims what is rightfully hers. Of course, the final reason is that we may very well be seeing more frequent and more extreme weather, but the cumulative observational evidence is not yet clear.”
This is because “climate is a long term average of the weather and we simply need more data on a multidecadal time scale,” Rob added. “Climate scientists still expect that as our world continues to warm, we will experience more extreme weather… sometimes more extreme in intensity, sometimes more extreme in frequency, and sometimes both.”
He concluded that “Weather is our world’s way of redistributing solar energy trapped inside of our atmosphere,” and added that “The more energy that is trapped by rising levels of greenhouse gases, the more redistribution our atmosphere needs to do in order to try and reach equilibrium.”
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Yesterday Our Neighbor's 80' Locust Tree Gave Us Some Live Edge Sky Lights, A Great View Of The Stars, And That Rainforest Cafe Atmosphere That Our Living Room Had Just Always Been Missing. No Injuries, Dogs Pissed The Bed, Life Goes On
#21
Hurricane Mitch Rendered The Choluteca Bridge (Honduras) Useless After It Changed The Course Of The River It Was Built For
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Spent 5 Hours Getting Chemotherapy This Morning, Came Home Feeling Like Crap. Laid Down To Nap... Alarms And Sirens Start Blasting. Rush 5 Cats To The Basement And Prep Shelter. Go Outside To See This In My Subdivision
#25
Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapsed Today After An Earthquake
#26
Just Bought Our Dream Home Less Than 2 Months Ago. Tonight I Watched It Burn To The Ground In A Massive Wildfire
#27
A Storm Came Through. The Plastic Furniture Barely Moved But The Grill Blew 30 Ft Into The Pool
#29
5 Days Ago My Parents And I Opened A New Takeout Restaurant. Today Hurricane Michael Destroyed It
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My Brothers Cabin (Which Is Now His Home In The Midst Of A Nasty Divorce) In Northern Ca. Took Him 5 Miles On A Snow Mobile To Find This After Leaving Town For A Week
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I Was In New York For The First Time In My Life. My Wife And I Spent Almost 10 Hours On A Plane, Crossed The Atlantic Ocean And Flew 7,500 Kilometers. We Climbed The Top Of The Rock To Enjoy A View Of Central Park. We Had Only One Day In New York And This View Will Always Be With Us
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This Tree Was Uprooted In A Storm Last Night That Destroyed The Mans Garage And Two Of Us Vintage Cars
#43
When You Live In Svalbard, Norway And Forget To Close The Window To The Home Office
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My Boss Told Me To Atleaste Try Shoveling Out And Come In Today. Saskatoon Sk, Canada (Red Car Is Mine)
#46
Got A Little Bit Of Rain In The Backyard. Husband For Scale. Note: We Don’t Usually Have A Lake In The Yard
#47
I Wore Shorts To Work Last Night Because It Was 75 Degrees Out, This Is What It Looked Like Outside This Morning After My Shift
#48
I Guess You Shouldn’t Put Glass Windows Over Grass When It’s 22 Degrees Celsius
#49
Lamborghini Huracan Flooded Due To Rain In São Paulo. It Was Not Insured
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BetterBitterButter 3 years ago
Some of these makes me think that those who took photos were lucky to be alive. I mean they weren't at the wrong place at wrong time and in this case the wrong place might just be their own home (or a particular part of home) or vehicles.
Bobert Robertson 3 years ago
Tornado went through my town last Thursday.... Destroyed nearly 100 homes. The one in the photo was a two story home where the bottom floor collapsed, that's the top floor you see. I drove by and it's heart breaking seeing the damage done in 5 short minutes. 72 homes deemed unsafe for entry, many more with massive damage. Cars upside down, roofs gone, fortunately no serious injuries or fatalities. I live 4km from where it hit E6X7IZXWEA...eb5234.jpg 
Bobert Robertson 3 years ago
If you're interested, this link is to a video of drone footage flying over the damage done: https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/drone-footage-barrie-tornado-damage-214335887.html
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Vicky Zar 3 years ago
I don't know about any of you but I am seriously scared about earths weather lately. I feel like we live in the beginning of a disaster film right now. I hope it will not end like the movie 2012.
Marnie 3 years ago
You should be scared, and should have been scared for at least 25 years, since we've known climate change was real that long at least. (I first heard that it was a hypothesis in 3rd grade in he mid-70s.)
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Uber Mensch 3 years ago
I love how so many "experts", or people that weren't anywhere *near* the events in question, are so willing to express their negative view on how these things were caused or should have been avoided. Twits.
Pierre Tomas 3 years ago
so many negative comments these days on here.. it used to be funny comments and stuff.. now everyone is criticizing stuff too much..
Suzi Gauthier 3 years ago
LOL so you're here to criticize the people criticizing? /s
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somnomania 3 years ago
god okay this isn't really the time or place but i'm thinking about it after reading some of the connected reddit posts. if you have animals and live in a place that can get disasters that might require you to leave home in a hurry, PLEASE take them with you. if you seriously can't find them and you have to get out NOW, i understand (it upsets me immensely, but i understand), but if you're officially evacuating or have thirty seconds to grab them and get to the car/the basement/the bathroom in the center of your house, please please please do it. they're part of your family and they deserve better than dying because they don't understand the threat and/or can't get away like you can. i'm sorry for the rant but fires and tornados scare the $hit out of me, and personally knowing that i have three untrained dogs, three cats (two of whom hate being held), bad stairs down into the basement, and a big house leave me so paranoid about whether i would be able to get them all to safety.
BetterBitterButter 3 years ago
Some of these makes me think that those who took photos were lucky to be alive. I mean they weren't at the wrong place at wrong time and in this case the wrong place might just be their own home (or a particular part of home) or vehicles.
Bobert Robertson 3 years ago
Tornado went through my town last Thursday.... Destroyed nearly 100 homes. The one in the photo was a two story home where the bottom floor collapsed, that's the top floor you see. I drove by and it's heart breaking seeing the damage done in 5 short minutes. 72 homes deemed unsafe for entry, many more with massive damage. Cars upside down, roofs gone, fortunately no serious injuries or fatalities. I live 4km from where it hit E6X7IZXWEA...eb5234.jpg
Bobert Robertson 3 years ago
If you're interested, this link is to a video of drone footage flying over the damage done: https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/drone-footage-barrie-tornado-damage-214335887.html
Load More Replies... Vicky Zar 3 years ago
I don't know about any of you but I am seriously scared about earths weather lately. I feel like we live in the beginning of a disaster film right now. I hope it will not end like the movie 2012.
Marnie 3 years ago
You should be scared, and should have been scared for at least 25 years, since we've known climate change was real that long at least. (I first heard that it was a hypothesis in 3rd grade in he mid-70s.)
Load More Replies... Uber Mensch 3 years ago
I love how so many "experts", or people that weren't anywhere *near* the events in question, are so willing to express their negative view on how these things were caused or should have been avoided. Twits.
Pierre Tomas 3 years ago
so many negative comments these days on here.. it used to be funny comments and stuff.. now everyone is criticizing stuff too much..
Suzi Gauthier 3 years ago
LOL so you're here to criticize the people criticizing? /s
Load More Replies... somnomania 3 years ago
god okay this isn't really the time or place but i'm thinking about it after reading some of the connected reddit posts. if you have animals and live in a place that can get disasters that might require you to leave home in a hurry, PLEASE take them with you. if you seriously can't find them and you have to get out NOW, i understand (it upsets me immensely, but i understand), but if you're officially evacuating or have thirty seconds to grab them and get to the car/the basement/the bathroom in the center of your house, please please please do it. they're part of your family and they deserve better than dying because they don't understand the threat and/or can't get away like you can. i'm sorry for the rant but fires and tornados scare the $hit out of me, and personally knowing that i have three untrained dogs, three cats (two of whom hate being held), bad stairs down into the basement, and a big house leave me so paranoid about whether i would be able to get them all to safety.
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