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Where is the weather improving?

retrocryptid 3y ago
Antarctic summers are getting positively balmy.
PheonixPharts 3y ago
The problem with climate change, in particular global warming (i.e. adding energy to the system), is that it increases the variance of the system. This means that the system becomes harder to predict, and we're not looking at a mere "redistribution" of weather. It's very possible for weather to get worse (i.e. disruptive to the current functioning of the local ecosystem) everywhere I would not at all be surprised if some areas suffering from extreme heat right now become unlivably cold in the coming decades. The problem with climate change is that it does not, in a human life time, lead to a new normal. If these new weather patterns were here to stay, we could adapt. what we'll get instead is constant changing which becomes increasingly resource intensive to survive.
MandieD 3y ago
Anecdata from northern Bavaria: we’ve lived in our current house since 2016, and have yet to regret not prepaying plowing service - it simply hasn’t put down more than a few cm at a time without it soon being warm enough to melt away. I’ve had to manually shovel in front of our garage twice, and both of those times, I probably could have chanced it. It used to snow frequently and heavily enough that the cul-de-sac got together to prepay snow removal for our garages. We also only burned about 600 liters of oil last winter in a house that has a 4500 liter tank. Part of that was conserving in order to send Putin as little money as possible, but a lot of it was just a really mild winter… like the last several. And this region has also started producing some nice, light-bodied red wines over the past decade (at the likely cost of its Eiswein tradition). On the downside, we’re getting more summer days that make me contemplate nagging my husband into drilling a vent for air conditioning into our bedroom. And we’ve started to need to water our wildflower yard a few times each summer to prevent it from completely baking, even though it requires less moisture than a stereotypical green grass lawn, and the country as a whole has started having forest fires, though nothing like the terrors seen in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. It’s been 27-30 degrees C (80-85 Fahrenheit) the last few days, and should be for the next week or so, with nighttime lows sufficient to really cool things off if you open the windows overnight. But we had near-40 degree temps that awful week last summer about when the UK got their first taste of it. So, sort of?
csomar 3y ago
I am in Thailand now and this time of the year the weather is usually unbearably hot and humid. It is surprisingly cool and the humidity is down. If it wasn't for the mosquitos, I'd turn off the air-conditioner and just open the windows. I am not sure if it is pure luck for this summer or climate change effects. We'll see if it holds until the end the summer.
TacticalCoder 3y ago
Last year, on the 19th of July, temperature in Belgium was 38 C / 100 F. Today (and for the next few days apparently) it's 22 C / 71 F. So during this 2023 summer heatwave, Belgium seems to have 16 C less than during last year's heatwave. In that way it improved a bit. I'm in neighboring Luxembourg and weather is kinda chilly for mid July (it's still okay: jeans and a t-shirt, but it's not crazy warm). I do wonder if it's all the warm air trapped south (south of france / italy / spain / etc.) by the slow jet stream that's keeping Belgium/Luxemburg/Netherlands chill (at least chill for a mid July) atm?
giardini 3y ago
This summer is nice: hot and unusually dry in Southeast Texas, just as it was during my childhood. Normally summers have oppressively high humidity but it's different this year (so far). There is an almost constant breeze so I can walk around even in the sunlight yet remain comfortable. I drink lots of water and take extra salt. With the low humidity sweat evaporates immediately unless I am laboring. I fear however that this long hot and dry spell in SE Texas will result in something we haven't seen in decades here - a malaria epidemic: 1. we already have some cases not brought in from outside the area, 2. severe malaria outbreaks are sometimes preceded by an unusually hot and dry period such as we're experiencing, 3. malaria was once endemic here. The land has changed somewhat but we have flooding, heavy rains and their effects, 4. It is hurricane season and a hurricane would undo all the good things I described in the first paragraph.

Antarctic summers are getting positively balmy.

The problem with climate change, in particular global warming (i.e. adding energy to the system), is that it increases the variance of the system. This means that the system becomes harder to predict, and we're not looking at a mere "redistribution" of weather. It's very possible for weather to get worse (i.e. disruptive to the current functioning of the local ecosystem) everywhere I would not at all be surprised if some areas suffering from extreme heat right now become unlivably cold in the coming decades. The problem with climate change is that it does not, in a human life time, lead to a new normal. If these new weather patterns were here to stay, we could adapt. what we'll get instead is constant changing which becomes increasingly resource intensive to survive.

MandieD 3y ago

Anecdata from northern Bavaria: we’ve lived in our current house since 2016, and have yet to regret not prepaying plowing service - it simply hasn’t put down more than a few cm at a time without it soon being warm enough to melt away. I’ve had to manually shovel in front of our garage twice, and both of those times, I probably could have chanced it. It used to snow frequently and heavily enough that the cul-de-sac got together to prepay snow removal for our garages. We also only burned about 600 liters of oil last winter in a house that has a 4500 liter tank. Part of that was conserving in order to send Putin as little money as possible, but a lot of it was just a really mild winter… like the last several. And this region has also started producing some nice, light-bodied red wines over the past decade (at the likely cost of its Eiswein tradition). On the downside, we’re getting more summer days that make me contemplate nagging my husband into drilling a vent for air conditioning into our bedroom. And we’ve started to need to water our wildflower yard a few times each summer to prevent it from completely baking, even though it requires less moisture than a stereotypical green grass lawn, and the country as a whole has started having forest fires, though nothing like the terrors seen in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. It’s been 27-30 degrees C (80-85 Fahrenheit) the last few days, and should be for the next week or so, with nighttime lows sufficient to really cool things off if you open the windows overnight. But we had near-40 degree temps that awful week last summer about when the UK got their first taste of it. So, sort of?

csomar 3y ago

I am in Thailand now and this time of the year the weather is usually unbearably hot and humid. It is surprisingly cool and the humidity is down. If it wasn't for the mosquitos, I'd turn off the air-conditioner and just open the windows. I am not sure if it is pure luck for this summer or climate change effects. We'll see if it holds until the end the summer.

TacticalCoder 3y ago

Last year, on the 19th of July, temperature in Belgium was 38 C / 100 F. Today (and for the next few days apparently) it's 22 C / 71 F. So during this 2023 summer heatwave, Belgium seems to have 16 C less than during last year's heatwave. In that way it improved a bit. I'm in neighboring Luxembourg and weather is kinda chilly for mid July (it's still okay: jeans and a t-shirt, but it's not crazy warm). I do wonder if it's all the warm air trapped south (south of france / italy / spain / etc.) by the slow jet stream that's keeping Belgium/Luxemburg/Netherlands chill (at least chill for a mid July) atm?

giardini 3y ago

This summer is nice: hot and unusually dry in Southeast Texas, just as it was during my childhood. Normally summers have oppressively high humidity but it's different this year (so far). There is an almost constant breeze so I can walk around even in the sunlight yet remain comfortable. I drink lots of water and take extra salt. With the low humidity sweat evaporates immediately unless I am laboring. I fear however that this long hot and dry spell in SE Texas will result in something we haven't seen in decades here - a malaria epidemic: 1. we already have some cases not brought in from outside the area, 2. severe malaria outbreaks are sometimes preceded by an unusually hot and dry period such as we're experiencing, 3. malaria was once endemic here. The land has changed somewhat but we have flooding, heavy rains and their effects, 4. It is hurricane season and a hurricane would undo all the good things I described in the first paragraph.