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Wholesome: my phone autogenerated a video of my dog remembering what it's like to have snow in winter
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This is the warmest winter in 40 years, 50-60% snowpack, and we're the headwaters for a good chunk of US agriculture. All of the seasonal cycles are so off that nature thinks it's 2-3 months ahead or behind what it should be. The weather this month is normal for April. I was sipping my coffee this morning while looking at the drought-parched landscape and thinking about the impending catastrophic fire season. My phone sent me one of those stupid autogenerated photo collages. It's of how different winters were just a few years ago.
luv2liveinhell
winter is getting more and more unpredictable. It used to be that we'd get snow in late october/early november, mid november by the latest, and it would stay frozen until spring in late march. We'd have a couple weeks of deep freeze, think -30 to -40, and the rest of it would be below zero.
The last few years we've made it to december without snow that stays around, and while we still get some of the deep freeze events we also get wild temperature swings that leave everything coated in a thick layer of ice or buried in slush. "winter" has been either mild hovering right around freezing or -40.
It makes me feel old but I remember as a kid I never understood movies/tv when the characters would be hoping/wishing for a snowy christmas when that's all I ever knew. Now the last few years I've found myself hoping that we can have a decent snowfall by mid-december.