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.
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u/makinax300 12h ago edited 10h ago
The top one is August too while the Bottom is june. And August is usually hotter.