Where I live, we are having an unseasonably wet dry season.
Climate change is real and the nice weather's going to be there anyway, so why not enjoy it?
Do enjoy it! It just makes me tense.
Oh, I've definitely been cringe-enjoying it. Having a perfectly clear, 60 degree day in Pittsburgh in February is wrong. I need the protective layer of depressing gray.
I've said it before, but it's worth repeating. Sunny days are annoying.
My off-topic from the other thread is distantly on topic here, so reposting...
Apropos of absolutely nothing, here is how I re-discovered that today is Family Day in parts of Canada.
After successfully relying on the Google Maps Traffic feature for timing and real-time route selection of a couple of winter weather-impacted trips, I have been looking at a coast-to-coast snapshot of it as a supplement to my weather nerd radar checking. Doing so today* showed the near lack of morning rush hour traffic due to Prez Day. However, Montreal was as busy usual, while Toronto was not. Briefly puzzled by that until I recalled (and then found) a post here about it.
I trust the concept of family has not suffered as dire a fate as that of the Presidency has down here.
*Looks like only Donner on 1-80, I-70 over the Rockies west of Denver and maybe northern Vermont with significant weather-impacted traffic today.
We're having unseasonably warm weather over here too, but it comes with pouring rain and howling gales. Ten years ago it would have been blizzards.
Here it's just raining and raining, with flood warnings in 15+ counties.
We're currently at 128% of average annual rainfall, with 4 months of the measurement year to go.
It's been colder and more cloudy than usual here. More rain too.
It's been unusually cold here this winter, and raining like wtf. It's been a disaster. Our bottom floor flooded, and the contractor who will be replacing the floors next week contended that digging additional drainage to prevent another flood was "optional," on the grounds that it's never rained like this before, and it likely never will again. We were like, seriously we are teetering on the edge of a climate change apocalypse, who knows if LA is going to become a floodplain, and maybe we should put the house up on stilts?
I did remark on the fact that some of the Forsythia at the MLK Memorial was beginning to bloom when we visited it the day after the Women's March.A bit unsettling.
It is just so frustrating that attempting to slow down and respond to climate change is exactly the sort of thing that spurs innovation and economic activity (while goring a few massive entrenched interests). Yet the economic growth party fights acknowledgment tooth and nail.
No idea why I bothered to write that last bit.
I just switched on my AC because it was too warm inside my apartment. I also just got back from a walk to the barber and managed to work up a sweat doing it. This is no OK.
"America! Don't go into the haunted house! Its climate is changing!"
Except this time, you're willing them to switch off the lights.
It was 70 degrees and sunny on Saturday. It was in the 60s yesterday and today. It is February in Chicago.
We're all doomed, but at least we'll have sun tans when the apocalypse comes.
August in DC is going to kill me. If this is winter summer is going to be utterly unbearable. I might have to move to Canada.
It was 47 degrees (116 old money) in Sidney yesterday. If they have to evacuate Australia where will we put them?
19: Send them to MN. Ozzies are hilarious.
Seattle broke a rainfall record last winter, this October and looks likely to break another one this month.
19: Concentration camps in Papua New Guinea, obviously.
13- Think of all the jobs the $50B sea wall will create times what, 30-40 coastal cities? I guess some might decide to evacuate instead of Dutch it. Maybe it will be another red state-blue state thing.
Oh, so now you're for a border wall?!
Tasmania was still reasonable last time I checked, so expect massive population growth in Hobart.
I can't think of Hobart as anything but a brand of commercial dishwasher.
I have it on good authority that Tasmania is infested with devils.
24- They make that joke in the very first sentence!
Boy, a giant seawall is going to fuck up some ecology, no?
23: Which way does the blue state vs. red state divide line up with the become merfolk vs. retreat to Moria divide?
I assume red states will refuse to acknowledge the problem or that the government has any role in solving it, and also fuck the poors so let them drown, rich people can pay $4M to relocate their picturesque monuments and waterfront summer cottages.
OTOH I guess red states could privatize the whole thing and figure out some mechanism by which people have to pay up to the private partner or they'll selectively let non-paying houses wash away.
The weather. Hot. It barely let up at all this winter. To the good, Roc North can be entirely protected by about 2km of sea wall. OTOH, Mossheimat is literally a mile above sea level. Life sucks.
33 does not necessarily constitute a well-formed argument.
I'm one enjoying and terrified of the weather. I think today may have been the first time I broke 10,000 steps (via half-assed phone counter) since spraining my ankle at the start of September. But what am I going to do, keep the kids inside when I could wear them out without wrecking the house?
In the west, isn't it All About The Girl?
We've gotten quite a bit of snow this winter, but rain the last several days. Maybe snow again next week.
It's been beautiful in Juneau and is currently a balmy 28 degrees, but now I'm headed back to anchorage where it's quite a bit colder.
It is very very very very very very rainy here. It is bumming me out. Meanwhile I refuse to read articles on climate change because they just make me cringe in terror and there is not a damn thing I can do about any of it.
Howling gales here- a named storm, which they don't often bother with. What does global warming look like? More energy in the atmosphere, you say? Well, who'da thunk it.