Loving the weather for a change! Blue skies and 24 degrees here in the South East of the UK today, although climate change means that it's totally unseasonal and we'll undoubtedly be back to 10 degrees (where it should be this time of year) by the weekend. It's scary to ponder on how a sustained adjustment to average seasonal temperatures will affect crops and farming here and elsewhere around the world, I can imagine that some places will simply cease to be fertile and other places will suddenly become viable, tough for subsistence farmers in those former places though. In a few decades I can imagine us growing red wine grapes like cabernet and Syrah in the South of England and places like Bordeaux and Burgundy becoming too hot to sustain the prolonged ripening of those same grapes (a delicate balance which makes their wines so good currently). Still, I think a few relocations of terroir will be the least of our problems as the people of the hot zones are forced to migrate North and South to more temperate (richer) climes, it's going to get kind of cozy.
Here's a random snap that I took with my phone on my walk today, it got clearer and warmer the more the day has gone on, it's not supposed to be this warm here in March, tee-shirt weather, feels more like June!
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