Is the UK ever going to get rain??

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I keep worrying about the lack of rain the UK has been getting. The grass is all yellow and brown and dead, and I walk by a little river dam thing nearly every day and now it's just about an inch deep. And in the foreseeable forecast all it says is dry and sunny.

I'd have thought that global warming would cause more rain and thunderstorms but apparently not. Just desert dryness. I don't like it. It keeps worrying me. Will the UK get rain eventually? Has this happened before?

I agree. Precipitation in the Southeast has really sucked. Scotland has been doing okay, though.

I’ll do a rain dance for you

Seriously, I don’t like it when things are parched, either.

It just makes me hate humans (nobody personally but you know what I mean) for trashing this planet. Is it because of all the carbon fumes and plastic dumped everywhere that's causing dryness or is it just an unusually dry summer?

I know that growing up in the 90s I hardly ever saw snow, and we had hot summers. Then we started getting freezing cold winters in the late 2000s/early 2010s, where we got unseasonably cold temperatures in November and lots of snow (2010 was the first time I'd ever seen snow in November, as usually if it does snow in the UK it's usually February and March). Then in the summer of 2010 and 2011 we only got about 1 week of heat, and the rest of the time it felt chilly.

I like to believe that human activity does not dictate the weather. After all, Earth once had an ice age, way before humans even existed. Who did they blame for that? The dinosaurs?

The dinosaurs were WAY before the Ice Age.

Ice Age: up to about 10,000 BC

Dinosaurs: up to about 63,000,000 BC.


To me, it’s a combination of natural and human-induced climate change.

In 1976, London had about 2 weeks straight where it was 32 Celsius or above.

I saw an article saying "UK's first hosepipe ban", but it definitely is not the first time. There was a hosepipe ban in 2014 I think it was. It's nothing new. We've often had dry summers. It usually rains a lot in June but usually July and August are the hottest two months. We had rain at the beginning of June, although the media is saying we haven't had rain in the UK at all since winter.

I read somewhere that global warming will cause very wet summers in the UK and more thunderstorms. Doesn't look like it according to this summer. All this hot weather we've had and no thunder. We had a lot of thunder in May and June though.

The UK is going to be like parts of Africa soon, where people will have to have very limited amounts of water and walk miles for some water.

And the UK is supposed to be a rain country.

California doesn't get much rain, do people in California have to ration out water?

The UK will never get to the point where many of its citizens have to walk miles with a pail to get water.

But, sometimes, they might have to limit their water usage. It's not something that's easy----but it might have to get done.

In actuality, London only gets about half the rain that NYC does, believe it or not. But it usually gets enough rain---enough for it to be quite green most of the time.

The coast of California gets very little rain in the summer, and really not all that much in the winter, either----but the mountainous regions of California do get quite a bit of rain and snow.

Sometimes, people in California face rather severe water restrictions.

I've been wondering what happened to the days that the UK got rain in the summer.

I'm worrying about it. What if the UK never gets rain again and everything will dry up completely and we'll all die?

I heard someone say that there's satellite things in the sky that can control the weather. What if terrorists are in these and they're trying to kill British people off by stopping it from raining? Is this true, or even possible, or is it just another conspiracy theory? (Feel free to point out my stupidity if you wish).
If humans can invent such technology that can control the weather then why not invent such technology that can prevent cancer?

This thread reminds me of this: