SharpCookie232 t1_j99adgh wrote on February 20, 2023 at 5:57 AM

You should have started panicking several years ago but you can try to get caught up now!

BobQuasit t1_j9az82e wrote on February 20, 2023 at 4:35 PM

I was panicking 40 years ago, when I started researching this stuff in college. Tried to warn people, and they laughed at me. It really sucked.

dirkvonnegut t1_j9bbyt5 wrote on February 20, 2023 at 5:58 PM

Global warming is for sure making things worse. However, it's really because of a bad El Nino season and it will be the same next year. Something similar happened in 2015/16.

GreatAndPowerfulNixy t1_j9bz5bh wrote on February 20, 2023 at 8:27 PM

The gulf stream doesn't exist anymore thanks to global warming.

SheeEttin t1_j9c37tp wrote on February 20, 2023 at 8:54 PM

Rapid swings between the polar vortex and whatever this is right now are about to get a lot more common, I think.

MainSteamStopValve t1_j9cqpo1 wrote on February 20, 2023 at 11:33 PM

Pretty sure the gulf stream exists. You can see it here.

https://ocean.weather.gov/gulf_stream.php

oldcreaker t1_j9ac35b wrote on February 20, 2023 at 1:45 PM

I'm 64 and I have never seen a winter like this before. A warm day here and there is common. But it's been so consistently warm this year with only an occasional cold day here and there.

mini4x t1_j9bb9s6 wrote on February 20, 2023 at 5:53 PM

we had one day that it was -5. and the next day it was 50. The averge low so far hasn't even been below freezing.

I'm 10 years younger than you and I remember we used to start getting snow in mid-Nov and there would be snow on the ground the entire winter, until mid-Feb or so.

NativeMasshole t1_j9amzdz wrote on February 20, 2023 at 3:11 PM

It actually just barely beat the record set for that day about 100 years ago. It's the overall climate trends we should be looking at; winters have almost certainly become overall milder in my lifetime, with snaps of freak winter weather.

Oniriggers t1_j9av21o wrote on February 20, 2023 at 4:07 PM

I’m up in maine and like 3 fridays ago it was -45f outside and the last two fridays were each in the 50s. It’s alarming

mini4x t1_j9bbgev wrote on February 20, 2023 at 5:54 PM

...and three Saturdays ago it was 50.

MoeSzys t1_j9cibbi wrote on February 20, 2023 at 10:35 PM

We should have started panicking a long time ago

J0E_Blow t1_j999dch wrote on February 20, 2023 at 5:46 AM

Yes.

Study: New England Is Warming Up Faster Than The Rest Of The World

BobQuasit t1_j990xqr wrote on February 20, 2023 at 4:21 AM