▲ 192 ▼ No U.S. states had a record cold winter. Nine had a record hot one | Though it may surprise East Coasters, the story of this winter was not record cold but record heat (www.scientificamerican.com) submitted 5 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net [M] to c/climate@slrpnk.net 10 comments fedilink hide all child comments Archived copies of the article: ghostarchive.org web.archive.org — you need to abort page loading (press esc on desktop) before it clears archive.today — sometimes modifies archived pages
[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 51 points 5 months ago (3 children) It was 70 last week. And then it dropped overnight to 35. My buddy says "so much for global warming huh?" like it wasn't just 70 fucking degrees out for a week in the middle of winter. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago Yeah, I was working on getting the AC units working again and my twin was just "Don't worry, it's going to snow tomorrow" (well, a few days ago now) and I just was like. Hell. It's hell. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 child) Feb the recorded temp at my house was -13F (-25C ish). March 8th was 77F (HotC). Kind of wild. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 8uurg@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago 77F is 25C. That is quite the temperature swing: even bigger than the warmest day in a year vs the coldest day in a year in many places... permalink fedilink source parent [–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago Yeah, it's going to be 80 near me. Last year it was snowing in March here. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago Yeah, I was working on getting the AC units working again and my twin was just "Don't worry, it's going to snow tomorrow" (well, a few days ago now) and I just was like. Hell. It's hell. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 child) Feb the recorded temp at my house was -13F (-25C ish). March 8th was 77F (HotC). Kind of wild. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 8uurg@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago 77F is 25C. That is quite the temperature swing: even bigger than the warmest day in a year vs the coldest day in a year in many places... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 8uurg@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago 77F is 25C. That is quite the temperature swing: even bigger than the warmest day in a year vs the coldest day in a year in many places... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago Yeah, it's going to be 80 near me. Last year it was snowing in March here. permalink fedilink source parent