bcuster
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Cat 5 & gaining strength...
The weather in the USA...
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Changing the facts
It's a stupid and inevitable negative feedback loop innit.
I've seen so many people with personal hand held fans in London during this heatwave.
When Texas was crippled by that cold weather a few years back.people were cranking up whatever they could to stay warm.
One of the things that I find utterly stupid is the long wide profiles of homes. Dark roofs, large area so they have to deal.wuth the internal heat with Aircon.
The house my dad grew up in (SC) was tall and narrow so that it didn't get sun blasted. And surrounded by mature trees.
The older houses in New Orleans all have narrow rooms and very high ceilings. Narrow corridors, narrow tall windows, all the facilitate sure flow upwards.
bcuster
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newme
Giant in Pastyland now
The whole country's weather and various natural disasters seems to act like its trying to expel everyone. Asked before on reddit where actually doesn't have insane weather at some point and the closest anyone came up with was somewhere that was on a fault line but just not very active. I'm sure there must be somewhere but no one had an answer. Either extreme cold, heat, earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding or complete lack of rain.
Yuwipi Woman
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TBF, the rest of the world seems the same at the moment.
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
I mean we haven't many of them for eg the UK. US seems to get everything. Even volcanos if you include hawaii
petee
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we didn't get any here (and we had it big in spring). did you find out the source?
Yuwipi Woman
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Canada wildfires. It blanketed the entire mid-plains area.
Do I remember correctly that you're in NY?
petee
no gods, no malarkey
yes. ( i live in new york county, which is in new york city, which is in new york state.)
Yuwipi Woman
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Thanks, I thought so. The wind must be just right to swing the smoke south, rather than east.
Figuring out where smoke comes from can be tricky here. We sometimes get it from wildfires in the Rockies. In the Spring we can usually count on Kansas doing controlled burns in the Flint Hills for it.
Aquamarine
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Despite rain, largest Western NC wildfire grows, threatens structures
More rain is expected Sunday, but the hope remains for a big, long, soaking rain to make a big difference.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
Despite rain, largest Western NC wildfire grows, threatens structures
More rain is expected Sunday, but the hope remains for a big, long, soaking rain to make a big difference.abc11.com
i've been in the nantahala forest, inexpressibly beautiful. i hope everyone is safe, though it's sparsely populated within the forest, so.
Aquamarine
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Temperatures are 20 to 30°F above normal across the Great Lakes.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
"This week the map got its first update in more than a decade, and the outlook for many gardens looks warmer. The 2023 map is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 2012 map across the contiguous U.S."
Aquamarine
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Alaska is baking.
Aquamarine
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White Christmas unlikely for much of U.S. as temps set to jump
"Much of the U.S. is likely to see temperatures of 10 to 20°F above average for the time of year during the last two weeks of December — including Christmas.""The big picture: The expected above-average winter temperatures come in a week when Spain recorded its highest daily December temperature, when Malaga reached 85.8°F on Tuesday, and on the heels of Australia experiencing its hottest winter on record."
bcuster
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Global warming causing balmy Christmas
abcnews.go.com
Record-high temperatures, cross-country storm forecast this holiday weekend
Parts of the U.S. will have record high holiday temperatures this weekend while a cross country storm will bring snow to Nebraska and South Dakota.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
bcuster
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Unusually warm for almost January
Aquamarine
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Philadelphia's snow drought.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
Yuwipi Woman
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Getting a blizzard at the moment. I have about six inches of snow with another 3 - 4 expected by morning. The wind is in the 50-mph range.
Power was on and off all day. There was a crew repairing it until after dark. (I don't envy them their job today.) They found a bad 220 line and they rigged up a temporary one. The trouble with the 220 being iffy is that my furnace needs 220 to run the fan. As it is, the temp in the house is down to 56 F. That isn't that bad, but we're expecting temps in the 17 F range over night. If worse comes to worse, I have a wood stove, but that would mean going out into the blizzard to gather some wood. Not something I really want to do in the dark.
Power was on and off all day. There was a crew repairing it until after dark. (I don't envy them their job today.) They found a bad 220 line and they rigged up a temporary one. The trouble with the 220 being iffy is that my furnace needs 220 to run the fan. As it is, the temp in the house is down to 56 F. That isn't that bad, but we're expecting temps in the 17 F range over night. If worse comes to worse, I have a wood stove, but that would mean going out into the blizzard to gather some wood. Not something I really want to do in the dark.
