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SnooDoubts2823 t1_ja0iesh wrote

I'll be the wet rag here.

This is ominous.

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chippyinairplane t1_ja0p2pp wrote

Everyone seems to really enjoy this weather but I’m worried.

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Scitron t1_ja0s6d3 wrote

Everyone will enjoy it until they realize summer will be similarly warmer than average and then it's "summer is too hot, you can't do anything in this heat"

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pghgreatest t1_ja0wdd4 wrote

And stronger thunderstorms that have chance to knock out power

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PeterVonwolfentazer t1_ja1m7v8 wrote

I agree. I used to live in Nashville and nobody did anything in June/July/August. Too darn hot!

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iammas13 t1_ja0xe5h wrote

To make it somewhat better, if climate change wasn’t real it’d still be pretty warm right now. A good way of explaining it is that you roll a normal 6-sided die for weather, and 1 would be a very cold winter and 6 would be warm. Climate change, over time, replaces the 1 with a 7 (so you get a 2-7 range on a 6 sided die). This may be a 6 or 7, but otherwise a warm winter isn’t necessarily SUPER ominous or anything.

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SnooDoubts2823 t1_ja3ho7y wrote

Back in 1997, I shared a Midway Airport shuttle with a guy who worked as a research meteorologist at the nearby Argonne National Laboratories. I asked him about global warming and he said he wished people wouldn't use that term at this time. What he said would happen was that we would see wild swings in weather and more severe storms. The overall temperature would increase but the main indicators would be unusual temperature and precipitation extremes. When you look west right now, the snow and cold is absolutely unreal for LA and parts of the high desert. People point to snowstorms as a contrarian indicator but what were seeing now is right on target with what he told me would happen. Everything he told me back in '97 is happening now.

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Lord_oftheTrons t1_ja2xy1j wrote

I'm worried how bad the bugs will be this summer if it has been this warm in winter. I found ticks on my dog the other day and that isn't usual for February.

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SnooDoubts2823 t1_ja3gz65 wrote

Oh get this - Friday night I found a stinkbug on my freakin' pillow! Now I'm going to have to check for the damn critters every night. But yeah, February and the ticks will be awful this year.

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Willow-girl t1_ja7ljsh wrote

If you live in the country, get ya some Muscovy ducks! They really cut down on the tick population.

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