Julia Fiedorczuk

  For the past few day we could witness the floods that affected the huge part of the Balkan countries and Italy. Parts of Albania were particularly badly hit, with up to 400mm of rain falling in 12 hours causing the Drini River to burst its banks. Similar thing happened in Montenegro and the river Morača. Heavy rain and strong winds terrorized Spain and Majorca. A wind with a speed of 84mph was recorded in Majorca and over 10 incidents appeared, ranging from fallen trees to mountain rescues. The strong winds also caused damage to boats in Port de Soller and brought significant waves, with some reaching up to 5 metres in height. Meanwhile in parts of New York, Usa weather conditions turned milder for Thanksgiving week after a prolonged period of intense snowfall.  source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/weather-tracker-heavy-rain-and-severe-flooding-hit-the-balkans

  This November is the hottest of all time, the average temperature is 2,2 degrees warmer than average Novembers from the past 30 years. Some plants that flower in October still flower due to the warm temperature and frequent rains. Chain of meteorological events this year affects the life cycle of our gardens, disrupting it when we wouldn’t normally expect it. The drought that appeared this summer is one of key factors to this Fennomen. Extreme heat made many flowers became dormant like they do during winter. Many meteorologist say that soon weather will calm down and return to normal. People blame the climate change for frequency and intercity of extreme weather events such as drouths and floods.  source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63754070 

  Pumpkins - symbol of Halloween or even Thanksgiving, who would expect that this autumn vegetable can be extremely dangerous to our climate? Their huge popularity also came with a huge pollution problem, every year millions pounds of pumpkins end up in land fields. When they decompose they emit methane gas, it warm the atmosphere faster than carbon dioxide that’s why it’s so dangerous. It’s sad because we can make so many things from them like bread, muffins, pies or even wine, not to mention that their seeds are edible. They can be used as food for wild animals like deer, moose or racoons. I think it’s sad to see how much food we waste. With foods like pumpkins it’s worse, people only buy them for decoration and they don’t reuse them. We should spread more awareness about this.  source:https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/pumpkin-pollution-is-a-problem-what-you-can-do