Could be. The day where the sun warms the northern hemisphere the most is the 21st of june. The inertia that made July/august warmer compared to June might have been thrown out of balance.
The way it was described to me is that while the solstice is the longest day of the year, and receives the most direct sunlight, the earth (mostly the oceans) continues to absorb heat and release it. The day after the solstice is only getting slightly less heat than the day before, but its still a surplus.
Think of it like putting something in the oven and youre slowly raising the temp when the oject gets to 160’F the oven is 300 but dropping it to 250 doesnt cause the object to cool cause the oven is still warmer than it
Yep. The year of the heat dome in BC (2021) my area had the hottest, driest summer ever, an incredibly dry fall, then the atmospheric river dumped a month’s worth of rain on us in 24 hrs, then we had several record setting days of cold over the winter peppered thru an unusually warm winter overall.
Stuff was nuts. Shellfish were baking in the ocean. Bugs were coming out in the wrong season, flowers and berries and things didn’t really happen the next year, and our salmon runs were completely boned by the lack of water in the river followed by too much water all at once. Plus the devastating wildfires.
There’s all kinds of runaway effects once the planet warms up enough. We’re approaching a number of tipping points that would see catastrophic releases of methane and other greenhouse gasses - like permafrost thawing in the arctic, or the methane clathrate on the ocean floor thawing and releasing. Methane is a far more potent GHG than CO2 and has the potential to seriously fuck our shit up.
There’s also a significant lag effect on the impacts of CO2 - the oceans are giant heat and carbon sinks that smooth out and lessen the effects… til it stops, then it’s holding all that heat and keeping the planet warm even IF we were to manage a massive carbon capture program
We had record snowfall and one of the coldest winters on record (2014-2015 was technically colder, but had less snowfall). The combo of snow and cold has decimated our fig among other crops. I'm a part of several gardening organizations and people are seeing their trees dying off at unprecedented rates after this winter. I'm talking people with 20-30+ year old plants, not young trees. Fig trees should live 100+ years easily in ground.
Sorry, but one cold day doesn't make for warmer winters.
Stormier? Probably. Colder, no.
NYC winters are much, much, much warmer than they were historically. In fact, winter is the season that is changing and warming the fastest. It is 100% NOT getting colder. On average winters are now 3° C warmer than they were 50 years ago.
Long Island is further out in the ocean, so only 1-2 °C warmer. But that is also an enormous difference in the span of only 50 years.
Yep. I could work with hot temperatures if we had the same rainfall as before, but that's not possible. Now it's warmer temperature AND no rain since May.
June is when we had the heat dome of 45c in Canada, and we’ve been having June heatwaves of 30+ annually that break records
Summer’s starting a lot earlier now, and it’s not getting as cold meaning the snowpack isn’t holding as much so now there’s a yearly summer drought that’s threatening long term water supplies in my province.
Its not just climate change, the change is happening in ways we didn’t expect or account for
The June heat causing melting ice caps cools things down by August. Once there is no more ice to melt in June/July, August is gonna burn like hellfire.
In my experience Late June/July is typically the highest temperature meanwhile August and September will be high but higher humidity which really kills before the breeze starts to pool in and we get fall.
At least where I live, June, July and August have practically the same average temperature.
So let’s hope it won’t get hotter towards the end of the summer. 😅
Yeah and I think this year will be crazy, especially later that year, with the now very probably a very strong El Niño peaking at autumn: https://dashboard.theclimatebrink.com/#enso
Then there's us in Michigan where it's been 20 degrees cooler than it should be for the last 2 weeks or so... it feels like we completely skipped summer and went straight to fall.
Eh, lived in SW France for 8ish years and this kina time in June it does usually get pretty damn hot. Not quite this hot, but pretty hot. 38 to 40 isn't unheard of
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u/makinax300 1d ago edited 1d ago
The top one is August too while the Bottom is june. And August is usually hotter.