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Make sure to fully enjoy the coolest summer of the rest of your life.
Assuming el nino ends, it should be a bit cooler once that happens. But eventually neutral or la nina years will surpass this year's heat.
Though considering the 20 - 30 year lag between creating emissions and feeling their impact, we've still got at least a decade of accelerating heating before it settles into a more constant increase corresponding with emissions plateauing in the 2010s--oh nm, that was just a temporary plateau, it started increasing again during the late 10s. But maybe we're at the peak now and will see the acceleration of heating stop in 20 - 30 years.
I feel like I just read el nino is over a few days ago.
Yeah, it looks like it is weakening. It's not quite over atm but it's close.
You say that every year!
Yeah! It’s a conspiracy! Or…wait…could summers be progressively getting hotter and hotter??
Nah. It’s a librul conspiracy to hurt business, The Backbone of America.
So around my early-April birthday I’m used to chaos.
That’s what spring is like. It’s supposed to be weird.
But it’s gotten so weird.. my lilacs got frostbite, and half of the spring growth died… They budded in early March and then several frosts followed.. because of course they did. That’s spring. But man the plants are confused.
Up here in Canada I murmured to myself "we're fucked" when I kept noticing the geese flying north, then south, then north, all winter.
It's not just the plants.
As someone who lives in a cold climate, awesome! As someone who lives on the planet earth, bogus.
I don't think there's any "could be" about it. It's already 78 degrees at my house in April. We normally wouldn't see temps that high until June.
It's June/July temps in mid April here. Messed the plant life and bird migration around here.
Last monday it snowed here and the snow stayed for two days. Today it was 23 degrees Celsius.