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Brexit is already doing that in Britain.
As for rain, the local weather station reported zero rain in the month of July. A couple of weeks back I noticed a faint dewy sensation on my skin one evening as the dew fell, but that's not enough for their recording equipment, or the vegetation!
I've never been to Britain - always wanted to. When I worked overseas, I worked with many from 'Blighty' and knew many from other countries who had lived, studied, worked in London and Manchester. Nearly all commented on how gloomy, cloudy, rainy the weather was, so to see these kinds of atmospheric conditions persist for as long as it has is indeed nothing less than shocking. I've been to Continental Europe a few times, where they are dealing with the same extremes, obviously.
I guess the equivalent here in the States is the rainy Pacific Northwest, which is also known for its 'depressing' climate, as I can attest to having lived there for a few years until moving on. But there, too, as in the UK, the NW has in recent years dealt with searing heat and less and less rainfall.
I'm afraid that this is the terrifying opening act to decades of horrors that we will see unless we have much greater degrees of global cooperation, not only on measures to prevent climate change but also on how to cooperate globally on its near-term consequences (like massive shortages and dislocation). This is a really, really bad time for brewing rivalries between the West (particularly the US), China, and Russia. We need global cooperation now more than ever, but this period of decoupling and nationalism is horrifyingly reminiscent of Europe and Asia in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. We know what happened next.