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We have a snowstorm right now in Southern Finland. Extremely cold weather is coming too after the snowstorm.
This is the kind of news that makes me wish i felt cold right now
But no, im in Berlin, there's no snow anymore and the wind smells of summer >

USA here, Central Pennsylvania to be exact. Tommorow is predicted to be 59 degrees (15 celcius) and Wednesday 65 degrees (18 celcius) with possible "heavy thunderstorms." Yep. Completely normal for this time of year. This is where the fun begins. >

A metric fuckton of rain just dumped on KC tonight in a couple rounds of storms and set a new record rainfall for the day -- almost as much as we get in the entire month. Yet a week and a half ago it felt like -30° here. >

Similar in northern CA with several more inches coming this weekend 😭 >

Northern NV here. Crazy how much snow and rain we've gotten! Hopefully fire season won't be bad. >

Low heating bills are good now, BUT....
Remember the European drought last summer? 
Rivers so low that barges couldn't travel? So low that hydro and nuclear plants had to shut down?
If the mountains don't get a decent snowpack this winter, there will less water in the rivers next summer. Snow should be accumulating at higher elevations now, but instead, the snow that fell in December is melting. >

It’s not just Europe. Both the Mississippi/Yangtze nearly dried up last year. The economic impact will be catastrophic going forwards which will drive further global political instability via resource scarcity/disasters/war/refugees. As a humble internet rando I really don’t see a way out of this (I.e. we can only do damage mitigation at this point) without the mass proliferation of fusion energy over the next decade. A Herculean task. >

There plenty of options to engineer a way out, but with current technology you would need to spend a few percent of GDP >

And we can't be taking such drastic measures yet. >

As soon as quarterly record profits are in danger, we will do something that fixes the record profits of the next quarter! >

Na, they have their bunkers already set up. They will wait it out. >

I know that a lot of super rich think this way, but it’s complete nonsense. There is no “waiting it out”. They are completely dependent on the labor of everyone in lower economic strata, and without them around, the super rich will starve . >

Well, in case of an apocalyptic event, I wish all the best to the armed goons no longer having a reason to keep their previous billionaire psychopathic employees alive! May they repopulate the earth afterwards! >

Well, the good news is Russia failed the whole "freeze Europe out of sanctions" plan. Bad news, we are going to have to redraw the maps once the sea reclaims all the coastlines. >

Rip Holland. >

The windmills will protect them. >

During that time, the polar vortex moved over Canada and the USA. For a few days. And now, we likewise are in as serious warm spell. 62 degrees in the Northeast on Jan.1. >

That same polar vortex which created havoc on holiday air travel, especially from Southwest, is now creating historic ‘atmospheric river’ storms in California in rain levels not seen since the 19th Century. >

Which is sorely needed. Despite the rainflow, we're still deep in drought territory, and will probably need two or three winters like this at least to get back to normal. The issue in CA is the extent to which the underground aquifers have been depleted by agriculture combined with the inability of the Sierra snowpack to hold water in the rising temperatures.
While the recent storms are a welcome respite, if we don't consistent steady precipitation combined with a cooler spring this year, most of it will be wasted in runoff and flooding (as Sacramento is experiencing right now). >

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Sparse snowfall and unseasonably warm winter weather in Europe's central mountains are allowing grass to blanket hillsides across the region, causing headaches for ski slope operators and aficionados of Alpine white.
Next door in France, national weather agency Meteo France said 2022 ended with some of the warmest weather the country has ever experienced at this time of year - capping an exceptionally warm year that saw temperature records broken and rampant forest fires and drought conditions.
Exceptionally warm weather followed, prompting some resorts at lower altitudes to close down as snow cover melted away.


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I am in Rome and there are daisies already on every patch of grass... it's really "scary" to think about >

Why did you put scary in quotations? >

ah, so arctic blast in Americs, unusually warm in Europe. I see how it is. >

polar vortex=planet pushing its hat over a bit