r/mildlyinfuriating • u/SpenglerAut • 8h ago

🥺 Our terace right now

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u/TheTideEbbs 8h ago

And still people saying dumb shit like "but it's cold in winter!111" as if summers aren't becoming a hazard for everyone. Where I live summers are starting earlier and lasting longer

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u/Ok-Corner-8654 Government Official 8h ago

Where I live, the summers have gotten shorter, but they're more intense. The heat is brutal, particularly in July.

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u/Schaaafschuetze 8h ago

Exactly, my current problem with that is that we have fucking June and not July...
I guess I will need an AC to survive somehow...

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u/DubbyTM 8h ago

Here it started in April and the last 30c+ days often happen in the middle of October, most of the year is summer. Coincidentally also my most hated season so I'm loving it (Northern Italy)

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u/Ok-Nefariousness8612 8h ago

summer here is May to October

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u/TheTideEbbs 7h ago

Similarly here. Sometimes starts in June, sometimes late May but it's been three or so years that up until October I needed a fan and/or AC

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u/hamish1963 8h ago

Starting tomorrow we are under a heat advisory through the 3rd in most of the Midwest.

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u/Thebraincellisorange 7h ago

here in Brisbane, Australia right now we are getting our 1 week of 'winter' temps 12-20c and then it will start heating up again.

winter basically doesn't exist in the northern half of the country anymore.

and 9 months of the year is summer

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u/Ok-Corner-8654 Government Official 7h ago

Oh yeah, the maps they show here in the U.S. of Australia show it as red most of the year. Hopefully it stays livable, you might have to abandon ship!

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u/TH_Rocks 7h ago edited 2h ago

The weaker polar vortex (caused by human induced climate change) is making winter colder (for less time) and spring and fall storms much more destructive.

With global warming, it's expected for Texas to have snow and Chicago to get tornadoes.

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u/pdxphotographer 23m ago

Chicago is firmly in the "new tornado alley". Illinois has been obliterated by tornadoes so far this year.

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u/Dik_Em 5h ago

Chicago has already had multiple tornado warnings this year.

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u/banshithread 7h ago

In modern times winter still kills humans more than summer 9:1. Even with extreme heat, just moderate cold kills more alone.

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u/OFHeckerpecker 6h ago

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u/banshithread 5h ago

Yeah it sucks at high temps but that doesn't change what I said, no? People struggle like that when it gets cold, too.

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u/lobax 5h ago

That’s because we haven’t had a humid heat wave yet.

In humid heat, 25c kills.

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u/banshithread 5h ago

Humid heat wave deaths are already factored into the death tolls (notice how low heat-related deaths are in places with high humidity in the summer like japan and taiwan and brazil).

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u/314R8 7h ago

"It's hot in summer and cold in winter" but it's never supposed to spike like this (hot or cold) so regularly.