chapotraphouse

"ICE must be destroyed"

monkey's paw curls

Yea we used to average 180" of snow in a winter and it would regularly be below zero for a week straight.

We used to ice fish over 100 feet of water on lakes the shallow bays didn't ice over once this year.

We got like 2 inches of snow the day before Christmas and it's supposed to be 47 next week.

I almost kind of understand the impotent rage liberals feel when they try to get us to vote for Biden because it's how I've felt trying to get anybody (particularly those previously mentioned liberals) to give a shit about this for the last 15 years.

And the best I've gotten was them lecturing me that Biden is the most environmental president everr as he authorizes literally previously unconcieved levels of fossil fuel extraction, and every chud in town scoffing at global warming anytime it snows more than 2 inches.

Yea, where I am we've gotten almost no snow and aside from a week of -40 it's been hovering right around freezing, so everything just gets nice and icy. I love walking when it's snowing so I made a conscious decision to go for a walk when it was snowing because I don't know when I'll get the chance again. It's February and I can't see any snow aside from a few patches clinging to the north sides of buildings.

Summer is going to be an unprecedented fire season that makes last year look like a backyard campfire. That cold snap without a nice think snow layer is bound to have killed a bunch of trees and the dry, hot summer is going to turn entire forests into kindling.

Yeah, we were all expecting this year to be substantially warmer than 2022-2023 because of ENSO, but this is significantly worse than most of the models predicted. That seems to be turning into a trend. Our current 365 day running average for air temperature is 1.51 degrees C above the pre-industrial baseline, which most models thought we wouldn't pass for another ~10 years. Not good.

It is predictable: 📈 🔥🌎🔥

This definitely will have no implications for agriculture

Supercell

blowing for decades without stopping

It's probably fine!

It's a strong El Niño year, which is associated with / defined as a high sea surface temperature anomaly in part of the tropics. Also everything is just getting worse.

Cus things were bad and were already up against an unnaturally warm yeat and to counteract it we drilled more oil than any other nation at any time in the history of the world.

Weather patterns are variable and sometimes what is important isn't necessarily just the peaks and troughs but the averages. For example, we were hitting or surpassing record highs in the Southeast June through August but the rest of the year had significantly higher rainfall and importantly, average temperatures were also above normal.

Most of it is probably just normal statistical variation, but a low/moderate ENSO index (which we had over this summer) is actually associated with somewhat lower average summer temperatures in most of the United States. The North Atlantic Oscillation, which is a similar quasi-periodic cycle in (shockingly) the North Atlantic, also tends to cause somewhat lower temperatures on the East Coast when it is in its negative index phase, which (again) it was over this summer. Both these influences are dominated by inter-annual variability on smaller scales, though.