Has london never heard of sprinklers
Fuck people who water lawns
They have, but they call them “Laddish” and deploy them mostly in Shoreditch alleyways.
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.
Grass isn’t sustainable if you want to keep it short for a lawn.
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.
So far, I’m not a huge fan of the anthropocene.
What infuriates me is that geologists plainly assertes that we don’t live in the anthropocene.
Hey, try to see the silver lining: it won’t be a particular long era.
😂😭
So basically Los Angeles, with possibly less fire.
for now. Lots of foresty parks in london
You joke but Edinburgh had a massive wildfire on Arthur’s Seat.
Wow! Is Arthur ok?
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.
It’s climate change. Grass in London never did this before the 2020s. Personal taste is completely irrelevant.
Summer 2025 (normal) vs. summer 2026You 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:
That still looks awful to me.
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).
Ok, not the point of my reply but you hate grass, you do you, I got it.
Looks like a still from the original Fallout
Well, the silver lining is that it’s good for finding parchmarks and old unknown archaeological sites.
And lots of sunken Nazi ships in rivers
I saw only the main photo at first and thought, did St. Paul’s shrink that much?
Have you ever actually seen St Pauls before? Could you describe it’s defining features?
I will not answer before I have spoken with my lawyer!
Ahh, looks like home.
(I live in Australia).
When I read this, the comment right below it said:
Looks like a still from the original Fallout
Any response?
Kangaroos in Fallout wouldn’t even need to change, they’re already threatening enough.
I’ve discussed with my people. They said:
Please keep the nukes away from us.
We’re a (mostly) peace-loving people that just wanna drink some beer and eat Vegemite.
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. 🫤
That’s pretty much what my city looks like every August. The grass around here only stays green if you water it.
Does grass usually stay green in the summer or something?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes absolutely. Lived in London for 18 years, till 2023 and never seen anything like that. Grass was always green throughout summer.
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.
Considering the UK and Ireland are famous for getting lots of rain that shouldn’t be surprising
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 🤷
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.
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?!
Because the British press only cares about things happening outside of London if it is either:
- Really fucked up
- Related somehow to London.
Here’s an article on the wildfire. Yes that is Edinburgh City Center right next to the Fire.
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.
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.
Big fucked and nobody is going to solve it before many of us poors are dead.
