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??
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