What about this weather eh?!
There was once a time, when British winter had the decency to be, grey cold and a bit wet.
Maybe a dusting of snow that hung around just long enough to ruin the school run and destroy the tube network then disappeared by lunchtime.
Now?
One day your neighbour’s scraping ice off the car with for some reason absolutely anything other than an actual scraper. The next day people are walking to the shops in T-shirts saying it’s “quite mild actually”. Then the sky drops half the Atlantic on us and we pretend this is normal.
It’s not. The weather is absolutely cooked.
It feels like the seasons have stopped taking turns and have all gone freelance. There’s no schedule, no structure, no sense of who’s meant to be doing what.
On Monday you can see your own breath indoors. By Tuesday you’re sweating in a coat you just committed to emotionally buying. By Thursday it’s raining sideways the kind of rain that will soak you regardless of how prepared you are and by Friday you’re considering sunscreen.
We all end up looking like people who got dressed in the dark , Scarves with sunglasses. Gloves with shorts. Parkas over T-shirts, madness - apart from the hair which is obviously on point after your last trim.
So what can we do? We check the app. It shows a little sun, a little cloud, a little lightning bolt, a couple of lines that might be wind or WiFi, and something that looks suspiciously like a tornado emoji. Also % of rain of which im still sure no one actually fully understands.
But here’s the real bit, the shift isn’t just weird, it’s worrying.
Hotter autumns, sudden freezing snaps, storms that always seem to have come from Africa or the Caribbean . it’s the local symptoms of a much bigger problem. The weather’s behaving like this because the climate underneath is shifting & bending.
Now, not to get bogged down and make this article all about climate change but it feels wrong to go on about without addressing the obvious issue. So if winter feels different this year, it’s because it is different. The seasons are blurring, the storms are louder, the gaps between cold snaps shorter, the warm spells weirder. It’s climate change — wrapped in British absurdity.
But if there’s one thing we’re good at as a nation, it’s adapting.
Laughing.
Moaning, obviously.
And carrying on — even when the weather changes more than Matts interior ideas do.
So whatever the weather throws at us next week — snow, sunshine, drizzle, hail, or all of the above before lunch lets just be grateful that at least in a moments silence when sat in that barber chair, youv still for the comfort of knowing weather chat holds up... more than ever.
