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Where I have lived my entire life, the hottest I'd ever seen in my is 33C. That would be an unusual year. The hottest summer days might hit 30C. This is 100
by 4ec0755f5522 5y ago
Where I have lived my entire life, the hottest I'd ever seen in my is 33C. That would be an unusual year. The hottest summer days might hit 30C. This is 100 years, historically: over 30 is possibly, but unusual. Years where 29C is the hottest day is completely typical.
End of June (June! Not even July/August!) we had a heat wave. What would you expect to find in such an event? Maybe 34? That sounds pretty hot. 35? 36?! How hot can it get in a place that has never seen higher than 33C in 100 years?
Well, it hit 42 god damn degrees. If you told me I would ever see that, if I lived to be a thousand, I would not have believed it. Over 40C in a place where 30C is a hot day, where a year going by with zero days above 29C is the norm.
Yesterday hit 38. That would have been shocking last year. Today I was glad it was under 40.
But yeah nothing scary about a hot July. Right. No denial at all.
- lmilcin 5y agoLooking at small number of samples from one place for a limited amount of history without understanding the pattern of weather you are in. Argumenting global climate change from your local experience does not work. It only works when: * you can measure things globally (you measure the effect) * you understand relation between the greenhouse gasses and the measured global climate change (causation) Fortunately, we have both. We both measure temperature pretty much everywhere and we understand the underlying mechanism of the change even if we can't exactly predict how the chaotic system will be have in the future.
- sparrish 5y agoAnecdotal... let's do it. Where I live, we've had the mildest July in many years. It only hit 90+ for a day or two. That's unusual. We've had more rain and cooler temps than I can remember in a decade.
- mythrwy 5y agoSame here. Most pleasant summer ever with lots of rain and cooler temps.