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The Retirement Newsletter: Time to get ready for winter
Welcome
Welcome to issue -70 — time to get ready for winter.
But before we start, I need to ask — where did the summer go?
Where did the summer go?
Where did it go?
It only seems like a few weeks ago that it was the start of summer, and now we are heading into autumn (fall). Actually, autumn arrived early this year in the UK.
It has been an odd summer.
After weeks of hustings, we have a new Prime Minister.
We had record temperatures in the UK, with 40.3 ºC recorded in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, on the 19th of July 2022. At Hawarden Airport, Flintshire, Wales, on the 18th of July 2022, the temperature reached 37.1 °C. And in Scotland, Charterhall hit 34.8 °C on the 19th of July 2022. The 18th and 19th of July were pretty toasty in the UK.
We had a drought and a hosepipe ban. And it was the lack of rain that caused autumn to arrive early. The heat and lack of water has stressed many trees and plants, causing them to shed their leaves and produce fruits and seeds early — a so-called false autumn.
