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[-] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Floods are much more common now.
Also: relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1321

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

PNW

We called June “Junuary” because it still rained quite a bit. We didn’t have “Fire Season” when I was a kid, it was still safe to have campfires in August. There might have been a few days each summer where the temperature exceeded 100F / 38C. We didn’t have air conditioning, but it wasn’t really necessary. Summer weather was over by late September, but I don’t recall it ever being very “hot” once school started. It was mostly gray and rainy November to May.

Now, summer weather seems to start in May. It’s about to be 90F / 32C the next few days and I find myself wishing for more rain every June. There are forest fires every year, fire bans go into effect early to mid July, late summer the air is hazy and smells like smoke. There’s usually a solid week that exceeds 100F / 38C. Portable AC units are necessary for survival. I’m usually still wearing shorts and a shirt into the second half of October, my partner’s birthday is on the 20th and that’s been the last “long summer night” where we stay out until 2AM the past few years. Winter’s been a lot sunnier than it used to be, we usually get a “false spring” event in March. “April Showers” feel like they’ve been missing.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Something lots of older people have told me is that the sheer drop in insect numbers is what opened their eyes to climate change. Jeremy Clarkson denied climate change exists until he saw a dry river in 2019 and even now says it's not man made. Despite all this he was concerned about how few butterflies he sees nowadays. Broken clocks and all that...

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Currently hazy from smoke. We have "wildfire season" now and half of Canada is either smoky or on fire. Had it bad two years ago too. I'm not that old but it didn't happen when I was younger that I remember.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The real fun is that smoke travels. I'm far to your south, but my city is also covered in a haze. Canadian wildfire season hurts the whole North American Northeast, yet we still have politicians in both countries claiming it's not a problem.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Sounds apocalyptic stay safe. How good is Canada at dealing with climate change?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It's definitely eerie seeing the skies darken knowing that another province is burning down. Thankfully I'm not too bothered by the poor air quality. For Canada, I don't know much. We have lots of fresh water and most of our country is difficult to enhabit due to the cold already, so we are probably in a better position than many globally central areas.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'll bet mate. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Shorter winter, much less snow, and some bird sounds I remember from when I was a kid have disappeared from the summer ambience as they've migrated further north.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I grew up in a tiny mountain valley 1000m above sea level. We had this small ski resort and in winter we would always go there. We could just ski down the street and take the first lift next to the street. This was for 2 months at least the case each winter. Nowadays there isn't as much snow anymore. The single remaining lift is mostly closed and you could ski down the street on a few days only. And this was just 20 years ago!!

We have a also a bigger resort around here. There is a slope all the way down to the parking lot. Hasn't been open in years now😕

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

The seasons starts and ends shifted. There are also longer periods of rain or drought.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Weather is now more unpredictable.

Last year we had a May where nearly everyday hit 100°f. That usually doesn't happen until August.

This year we had a storm that dropped 15" of rain in one day. We normally get 25" in a year in my area.

We've had two years in the last five that actually got under 32°f which usually happens once a decade or less. Many plants here can't tolerate that weather so they die.

Tornados in other parts of the country seem more destructive. They are also happening further East.

Hurricane's are also a problem for the coastal regions. My area hasn't been affected by them but I am expecting that to change.

Weather is more extreme on each end of the spectrum.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Tornados are the one I was going to bring up. The area I'm currently in rarely even saw potential formations with only one ever really fully forming, and that one was devastating.

In a recent storm, we had 4 touch down around us. Didn't get down in our valley, thankfully, but they were extremely close. Even when we're not in a watch/warning, everyone has noticed that the storms are more intense, and more frequent. We didn't even have our full round of frosts before the temperature started climbing and the rain started moving in, which has also affected local flora and fauna.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Less snow. More fire.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I'm in the UK and it's got so hot some years it's unfathomable. We got to 30 degrees a couple of years ago! We're not built for it and it's awful.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Not 30C, but 40! I was putting the washing out on the line and the first items were practically dry by the time I'd put the last things on.

My wife was also heavily pregnant at the time so It was definitely not fun for her!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

You really have my sympathy

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

We reached 40 degrees two years ago for the first time ever in Hamburg. It was really uncomfortable.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's a fun username if you're German 😂

And happy cake day 🍰

I hope Germany doesn't get too hot, I'm in Berlin in 9 days!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks!

I like the name. It's hard to pronounce squirrel if you're german and it's hard to pronounce Eichhörnchen if you're a native english speaker :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I have never seen that word before, never heard it spoken. Here's my attempt:

https://voca.ro/1k1hRYI4q1rF

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Very good. But, you pronounced the second "ch" as "sch". It's pronounced the same as the first "ch".

Listen here https://forvo.com/word/eichh%C3%B6rnchen/

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Vielen Dank ❤️

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

God that's unbearable

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

the bugs are gone. living in the suburbs of the midwest, once the summer heat died youd wanna go out and enjoy the nice evening, but if you didn't have bug spray the mosquitoes would absolutely murder ya. so we would slap on the 'off deep woods' and light a citronella and enjoy the lightning bugs. so many, like stars all around, trying to hold a convo over the loud-ass crickets. guardin your can so a bug wouldn't fly in. if you drank a soda, there'd always be some damn bee hasslin the mouth of the can

by the busy side of a highway, the buzzin and chattering of bugs was a cacophany of life. those gas station scrub stations (the ones that are always dry now) were absolutely vital as the windshield would get covered in bug guts. id stop by just for that often, even when i didn't need gas.

now just 30 years later, i can have a beer or two in the evening, chill outside a couple hours and get bitten maybe once or twice.

it doesn't matter so much how the stations buckets are dry, my own sprayer n wipers is enough. the lightning bugs are few. crickets are few. the sides of the road are silent.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In Southeast Pennsylvania (Philly suburbs):

  • Winters are way more mild with much less snow. We were recently rezoned from 7a to 7b, which tells me the USDA believes this change isn't going to revert.
  • Summers are a lot hotter and more humid (and there are so many goddamn mosquitoes!)
  • We get really strong wind gusts now - it's not uncommon for the day's forecast to have wind at 25 mph (about 40 kph) with gusts at 45 mph (about 72 kph)
  • We get tornado alerts a few times each summer now. Those used to be super rare.
  • We get haze as the soot from the Canadian wildfires drifts in our direction
[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Stink bugs in November/ December. I used to have winters without flying insects…

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

So so much windier.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We've never had snow here (it's a desert after all) but now, it's less cold, and right now it's 44c and no more rain.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

There's no more spring or autnum. It stays war till December and than boom, icy roads. Same thing after winter. Sweater weather till May and then suddenly heatwave.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

war till December and then boom, icy roads

Well spoken like a fresh new White House press secretary. SCNR

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

r/accidentalcomedy

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

The semi-rural property I live on (low rent) burnt down so I had to evacuate. But I came back because the building I was in was mostly unharmed somehow. That was a few years ago now so it's been a good amount of time for life to rebound from the fires, but everything has deeply changed since then. It used to be quite lush with green plant life everywhere even in the Summer and Fall. A lot of plants have come back, as expected, but not the lush green foliage, it's all dry grasses and invasive weeds now. It's like living in a completely different biome to what it used to be like here. There used to be a sheen of moisture on everything, now it's a patina of dust.

It's SO much more dry and barren so inevitably the animal life completely changed too. As an example, we used to get these big banana slugs. It may sound gross to some, but they were really fascinating and colorful creatures. I haven't seen one for years, even before the fires it was drying out and they couldn't survive. Now if you brought one from somewhere else and set it here, it would be dead and desiccated within hours. The kinds of insects you could find has completely changed too. Not just in the types, but in a lack of diversity. There used to be this huge variety of beetles and crickets, centipedes, silkworms, butterflies and moths. Now those are mostly all gone and only the earwigs dominate. There are still moths, but only like 2 kinds instead of 20. I try to keep a little garden, and I've noticed there are even fewer earthworms than there used to be. It's sad. It genuinely feels like some kind of slow death in a way.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Climate change is def causing some of what you're observing but its mostly this:

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

No, your "mostly this" is climate change too. I'm taking the normal recovery from fire into account for one, and for another, much of these changes I'm talking about happened before the fire (like I mentioned with the banana slugs) which is also a big part of the reason why the fire was more damaging. These are feedback loops with one another, not separate things. For instance, there were fires that came through here in past decades and it didn't happen like this. 25 years ago there was a fire that burned through a coastal park reserve about a 40 minute drive away from where I live. I visited it often both before and especially after that fire, I watched the sequence of different kinds of life year after year. There are even certain kind of trees there whose cones ONLY release their genetic material for reproduction when there's a fire. Whatever area your graphic is from, it's not the area I'm in which has fires more often than every 150 years. What I was trying to get across in my comment above is that the recovery after the fire is totally different now and that is due to climate change. Also the intensity of the fire itself was much more than past fires and that is due to climate change.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

the image i linked is an example of secondary succession. it isn't meant to represent any particular area. if your area only has fires every couple of decades or so then that's what you're seeing

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

We had record breaking snow in Florida with my town getting the most at 10" over about 10 hours.

Summers are now dry, I can go a month, maybe two, without rain. Used to rain every single day.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

native bees just dont exist anymore. actually the only bugs left are the shitty ones.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Less rain, more sunshine, warmer weather, longer summer and shorter winter.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

So much rain.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

No Christmas beetles

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

More rain than usual in our part of NSW, Australia.

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