Nearly four years ago I started to knit a temperature scarf and carried on knitting one stripe a day for two years. I planned it carefully, I checked temperatures for the previous two years and bought thirty different colours, one for each degree Celsius up to 30C, a temperature rarely seen here. There would be so few days over thirty that it wouldn't matter.
Then on 19th July 2022 had its hottest day ever with 40C being recorded here in Lincolnshire. I had to buy more colours. I recorded that single day in white.
Since that day we have had several days over 30C and yesterday, once again, we hit 31C. Lower temperatures (still hot but below 30C) are predicted over the next few days.
When I look through my wonderful rose coloured spectacles, I remember summer holidays as a child being hot but never so hot that we had to stay indoors. How will today's children look back on summer in the 2020's??
Summer of 2020 [Lockdown] I had to buy an extra colour to cope with hotter than expected days for my weather scarf. But I have enjoyed wearing it since [not right now obviously!!]
ReplyDeleteEven here where weather is supposed to be on the cooler side it is hot.
ReplyDeleteI knit temperature blankets for a number of years..... One for the year we were married, one for each year the children were born, and one for the year we happened to be in at the time. Man could you ever see the change in weather patterns. I am seriously thinking of doing some to show the difference in the amount of moisture we get. Just need to figure out the colours that would be necessary for a couple of years, and what colour would I use for the days we don't get rain, snow or ice.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
What lovely colors in your scarf! 40C (104F) would be considered hot, here, too, although we regularly go up to 44C (112F) in late summer. This summer, however, has been unusually cool so far.
ReplyDeleteI definitely don't remember summers being so hot. We played on the school field all Summer- it was bliss!
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