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The Canadian PNW seems to be different than further out east. I have noticed that the jet stream undulates such that the extreme winter cold stays east of the Rockies (generally speaking). This means that the PNW is getting warmer winters overall with far less snow in the mountains, leading to droughts in the summer.

Hell, my own area essentially never had a winter this last winter. We had only two “snowfalls” in the valley bottom, and neither lingered more than 12-18hrs before melting away. The average tends to be a good 30cm of accumulation that lingers for a month or more.

So hotter and drier years overall, and the end of real winters. I fully expect to be able to plant cold-tolerant palm trees (the kind you see in Vancouver) within the next decade, and have them survive year round without special protections. We’re USDA Zone 6a or 7a depending on who you reference, but the valley bottom just got officially reclassified as 7b.

If only. Where I live that's not really been the case. The temperatures all year have just gone up. Except last summer when it was cold af the entire july and august for some reason and we had no sun.

The full lyrics are bittersweet once you understand their meaning.

you've got 13 months in a year?

My parents bought a retirement property byba lake in the middle of nowhere and pit a boat on a lift on the dock. But the lake is a water supply lake, and their dock is only about 4-5 feet deep when the lake is full, which is only for about a week after a major flood these days.

Most of the time when I visit I end up driving under the boat with the lawnmower. It's just a really expensive porch swing at this point. We can't even take it to a different lake because it's stuck on the slings

They are in complete denial. Imagine approaching death right as it's impossible to deny your generation personally fucked up the future of civilization itself.

In my experience you now get one of: 1. The weather has always been like this, 2. I did everything I could, I recycled and brought my own cup to the coffee shop, 3. Oh well, I'll be dead soon so it's not my problem.

I live in an area where ice used to be an industry. Not even a minute drive from my house is a lake where they'd cut big blocks of ice and ship them downstream to stack and pack in sawdust and such to last the rest of the year. This area supplied a lot of the ice for the city of Philadelphia because closer to the city the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers were too dirty and no one wanted ice from them.

This went on until around 100 years ago, maybe even a bit longer, my dad in his 70s remembers his grandmother still getting ice delivered for her icebox for part of his childhood until she finally got a refrigerator.

My friends dad, who was a bit younger than my dad, used to tell stories about how the local creek would freeze over in the winter and he and his friends would ice skate down the frozen creek to get to another town about 5 miles away.

I actively keep an eye on ice conditions around me because I would like to try ice fishing some day. It's only been a handful of times over the last decade or so where any body of water around here has frozen over enough for it to be possible, and even then it's only been just the absolute bare minimum 4 inches and I'd ideally want another inch or two before I felt comfortable enough to actually try it.

I've never even seen that creek freeze over enough that even some foolhardy kids would be able to try skating on it, I've seen it get maybe 1 inch of ice, and even that was a rare occurrence, they'd break right through if they tried.

These are things that people around me should remember or at least should remember their parents and grandparents talking about, not something that's totally out of living memory, and yet they still refuse to see it.

I had an extremely weird conversation a while ago. A coworker had never heard of global warming before. They listened intently as I explained, expression making it apparent that they were honest about their obliviousness.

Here is the original comic by Shen.

Well, Florida has always been hell.

The really cool thing about climate change is that even as the average temperature of the planet increases, winters get more and more severe. Think about how damn hot the rest of the world has to be if one continent is experiencing record lows while the overall temperature of the planet is hotter than average

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