I live in Edinburgh, 400 miles from London. Large parts of the city look like this. We had a massive Wildfire on Arthur's Seat, our equivalent of New York's Central Park. Nearly died walking up a hill in the city center.
God... I didn't heard about that. What are journalisst doing? Scotland is basically next to France. Why do I hear about tsunami warning in Japan but not that?!
Was this last month? The article is date from 20 July 2026 but other mention I found are from last year. I find article on the same topic from a year ago almost world for world the same for the few recent articles. Is this the second year it happened?
Yes, and it was the biggest wildfire in recent memory. Whole of Salsbury Crags caught fire. Burnt for a couple of days. It was bigger than last year's fires. We once had a fire in February.
I've just always lived in places where it goes brown, assumed it just went brown in the summer everywhere. Like I live in the Pacific Northwest, we get a good amount of rain it being a rainforest, it's raining right now, grass is still brown 🤷
Yes I usually have to cut the grass every 1-2 weeks from around April though to late September. I think the last time I cut it was may, it's just stopped growing, and now I'm starting to get a dead spot in the middle that gets the most sun. Everywhere that is normally green is just dead short grass.
Grass here grows so fast in the summer even though our temperature is similar because it's (thankfully) our rainy season. It dies back in the winter or at least slows way down.
Unfortunately our rainy season has not yet dug us out of the historic drought of the last couple years.
ETA we do not water the "lawn" though, it just does what it does. Is mostly weeds. I do water the food plants.
They do (used to) in my climate as well. The higher part would turn yellow just a week or two before wieltering and only if the grass could grow enough to produce seeds.
Golf courses plant summer grass here in the US southwest. It starts to die off at cool temps, so they seed winter grass too. Looks like there's about to be money in landscaping. Hopefully the UK treats immigrant labor better. 🫤
How hot was it there? Looks more like drought. This spring/early summer was very dry. Had some rain in july but nothing that reached deeper into the soil.
Aren't (big) heatwaves usually followed by droughts?
I mean, huge high-pressure fronts tend to chase away clouds and thereby rain, causing a stark rise in temperature, and ultimately resulting in a drought.
Mind you, this is off the top of my head, so feel free to correct me.
Long grass is also dried out, as we can see on the left side of the bottom picture. For grass there's nothing unsustainable about periodically withering from drought, it's perfectly natural.
The upper photo just seems weird to me... why such a huge empty space? I mean I get that it's a park, I'm not suggesting putting up buildings or anything, but... idk, more trees, maybe a pond? Foot paths that aren't straight lines?
Even the Americans figured out how to do a park (well at least one park, possibly more) and they're a notably anti park folk, I would've thought the brits could manage something better in the middle of London
That looks awful, but I think that's mostly a testament to awful taste (planting huge areas of grass) rather than the weather. Grass looks like that after pretty mild weather.
You must be kidding. Pretty mild weather is the embodiment of UK weather and when its regular pretty mild weather in the UK this place (the last image in the post) looks like that:
Not enough paved over grass right? Needs more murder trucks, parking lots and industrial looking shops! Don't forget the patriotic (made in china) red hat, dedication to buying more guns in response another school shooting or sighting of a brown person minding their own business, and rabidly salivating when daddy Trump's face-anus opens....
I'm not a fan of that either. I'm not throwing shade at the UK in particular - the US also does way too much grass. Honestly, maybe the UK does it better, but the overuse of grass in the US and the consequences of such is what makes me find it distasteful (whether it's green or not).
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dregan@lemmy.world · 105 pts · 37d
So far, I'm not a huge fan of the anthropocene.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 58 pts · 37d
Hey, try to see the silver lining: it won't be a particular long era.
dregan@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 37d
😂ðŸ˜
Ashiette@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
What infuriates me is that geologists plainly assertes that we don't live in the anthropocene.
Blubber28@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 36d
And the infuriating part is that, even after seeing images like these, there will still be many people who believe climate change to be a hoax.
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 36d
It's part of God plan libtard! -america
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 36d
Far right american*
Don't lump us all in with those cunts, we hate them too
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 36d
*entire government of America, every official position and document, almost all business leaders, and half the country
Looks like they can just say "Americans" now and be accurate.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 36d
That's hyperbolic tripe.
Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
Pretty much anyone right of center unfortunately, not just the extremes.
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 37d
So basically Los Angeles, with possibly less fire.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 37d
for now. Lots of foresty parks in london
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 37d
You joke but Edinburgh had a massive wildfire on Arthur's Seat.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
Wow! Is Arthur ok?
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 33 pts · 37d
I live in Edinburgh, 400 miles from London. Large parts of the city look like this. We had a massive Wildfire on Arthur's Seat, our equivalent of New York's Central Park. Nearly died walking up a hill in the city center.
Shits fucked man.
deft@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 36d
Big fucked and nobody is going to solve it before many of us poors are dead.
pseudo@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 36d
God... I didn't heard about that. What are journalisst doing? Scotland is basically next to France. Why do I hear about tsunami warning in Japan but not that?!
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 36d
Because the British press only cares about things happening outside of London if it is either:
Here's an article on the wildfire. Yes that is Edinburgh City Center right next to the Fire.
pseudo@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 36d
Was this last month? The article is date from 20 July 2026 but other mention I found are from last year. I find article on the same topic from a year ago almost world for world the same for the few recent articles. Is this the second year it happened?
I'm very sorry for you either way.
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 35d
Yes, and it was the biggest wildfire in recent memory. Whole of Salsbury Crags caught fire. Burnt for a couple of days. It was bigger than last year's fires. We once had a fire in February.
pseudo@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 35d
Crazy stories.
Good luck...
Etterra@discuss.online · 32 pts · 36d
It's almost like grass lawns are an enormous waste of water.
myotheraccount@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 36d
If they need to be watered, yes. England used to be famous for having lush green lawns naturally. (Obviously not anymore)
farmgineer@nord.pub · 26 pts · 37d
Well, the silver lining is that it's good for finding parchmarks and old unknown archaeological sites.
homes@piefed.world · 13 pts · 37d
And lots of sunken Nazi ships in rivers
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 37d
Ahh, looks like home.
(I live in Australia).
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
When I read this, the comment right below it said:
Any response?
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 36d
Kangaroos in Fallout wouldn't even need to change, they're already threatening enough.
Wiggles@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 36d
A radiated mob of Emus would be terrifying to stumble across though.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
I've discussed with my people. They said:
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 36d
looks like regional Australia during a drought.
Etterra@discuss.online · 7 pts · 36d
I was thinking Arizona on a Tuesday.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 36d
I'm seeing Mojave.
Mojave mo problem.
Etterra@discuss.online · 1 pts · 32d
Reminds me of that time I got shot in the head and buried in a shallow grave. Good times, good times.
SirActionSack@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 36d
droughtsummer.ADTJ@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 36d
Green Hill's looking a lot more like Sand Hill right now
jtrek@startrek.website · 11 pts · 37d
Looks like a still from the original Fallout
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 37d
Does grass usually stay green in the summer or something?
Siegehammer85@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 36d
Yes absolutely. Lived in London for 18 years, till 2023 and never seen anything like that. Grass was always green throughout summer.
HereIAm@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 36d
Silver lining to this is that boomers can stick it up their bum with their summer of '76 as it's now been hotter and drier.
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de · 15 pts · 36d
Considering the UK and Ireland are famous for getting lots of rain that shouldn't be surprising
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 36d
I've just always lived in places where it goes brown, assumed it just went brown in the summer everywhere. Like I live in the Pacific Northwest, we get a good amount of rain it being a rainforest, it's raining right now, grass is still brown 🤷
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
Yes I usually have to cut the grass every 1-2 weeks from around April though to late September. I think the last time I cut it was may, it's just stopped growing, and now I'm starting to get a dead spot in the middle that gets the most sun. Everywhere that is normally green is just dead short grass.
RBWells@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
Grass here grows so fast in the summer even though our temperature is similar because it's (thankfully) our rainy season. It dies back in the winter or at least slows way down.
Unfortunately our rainy season has not yet dug us out of the historic drought of the last couple years.
ETA we do not water the "lawn" though, it just does what it does. Is mostly weeds. I do water the food plants.
pseudo@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 36d
They do (used to) in my climate as well. The higher part would turn yellow just a week or two before wieltering and only if the grass could grow enough to produce seeds.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 36d
Depends on rainfall but usually it's green throughout the year. Somebody told me that's why need is good here - don't know if that's true.
ibu@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 36d
most of europe :( https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2026/aug/07/europe-dry-riverbeds-scorched-earth-hot-weather-in-pictures
Agent641@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
What Australia looks like 10 months out of the year
MrWrinkles@leminal.space · 4 pts · 37d
Golf courses plant summer grass here in the US southwest. It starts to die off at cool temps, so they seed winter grass too. Looks like there's about to be money in landscaping. Hopefully the UK treats immigrant labor better. 🫤
Waterpumpee@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 37d
How hot was it there? Looks more like drought. This spring/early summer was very dry. Had some rain in july but nothing that reached deeper into the soil.
ekky@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 37d
Aren't (big) heatwaves usually followed by droughts?
I mean, huge high-pressure fronts tend to chase away clouds and thereby rain, causing a stark rise in temperature, and ultimately resulting in a drought.
Mind you, this is off the top of my head, so feel free to correct me.
Waterpumpee@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 36d
They are probably related yes. Seeing the river and signs of drought is weird though.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 37d
That’s pretty much what my city looks like every August. The grass around here only stays green if you water it.
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
I saw only the main photo at first and thought, did St. Paul’s shrink that much?
OryxAndCake@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 36d
Have you ever actually seen St Pauls before? Could you describe it's defining features?
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
I will not answer before I have spoken with my lawyer!
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 36d
Grass isn't sustainable if you want to keep it short for a lawn.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
Long grass is also dried out, as we can see on the left side of the bottom picture. For grass there's nothing unsustainable about periodically withering from drought, it's perfectly natural.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 36d
chunes@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 36d
Has london never heard of sprinklers
zemo@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 36d
Fuck people who water lawns
ContriteErudite@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
They have, but they call them "Laddish" and deploy them mostly in Shoreditch alleyways.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · -4 pts · 36d
The upper photo just seems weird to me... why such a huge empty space? I mean I get that it's a park, I'm not suggesting putting up buildings or anything, but... idk, more trees, maybe a pond? Foot paths that aren't straight lines?
Even the Americans figured out how to do a park (well at least one park, possibly more) and they're a notably anti park folk, I would've thought the brits could manage something better in the middle of London
speakupattheback@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 35d
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -20 pts · 37d
That looks awful, but I think that's mostly a testament to awful taste (planting huge areas of grass) rather than the weather. Grass looks like that after pretty mild weather.
gedfromgont@piefed.ca · 43 pts · 37d
You must be kidding. Pretty mild weather is the embodiment of UK weather and when its regular pretty mild weather in the UK this place (the last image in the post) looks like that:
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -20 pts · 37d
That still looks awful to me.
gedfromgont@piefed.ca · 21 pts · 37d
Ok, not the point of my reply but you hate grass, you do you, I got it.
Siegehammer85@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 36d
Not enough paved over grass right? Needs more murder trucks, parking lots and industrial looking shops! Don't forget the patriotic (made in china) red hat, dedication to buying more guns in response another school shooting or sighting of a brown person minding their own business, and rabidly salivating when daddy Trump's face-anus opens....
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 36d
I'm not a fan of that either. I'm not throwing shade at the UK in particular - the US also does way too much grass. Honestly, maybe the UK does it better, but the overuse of grass in the US and the consequences of such is what makes me find it distasteful (whether it's green or not).
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 36d
It's climate change. Grass in London never did this before the 2020s. Personal taste is completely irrelevant.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 35d
There's no grass there, if it was couch or buffalo it'd be fine. What's there normally is the native ground cover.