OK, if I'm going to be completely selfish, I am loving this 70 degrees in KC on December 2 and I will likely be dead before paying the consequences for it.
Re: an even more frightening perspective
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 12:14 pm
by Deleted User 89
bizarre-o world
heard this morning that this is the latest in recorded history that Denver has gone without snow
Re: an even more frightening perspective
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 12:24 pm
by CrimsonNBlue
My goal every year is to not turn on the heat until Thanksgiving. We live in a big rectangle loft that is just concrete, brick and windows, so I usually don't make it all the way through (and she runs outrageously cold). I don't anticipate having to turn the heat on for at least 2 more weeks.
Re: an even more frightening perspective
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 7:38 am
by Deleted User 89
blizzard warning for hawaii
Re: an even more frightening perspective
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:27 pm
by ousdahl
Heard some story on the radio this morning about how western wildfire season is 2 and a half months longer than it used to be. Then smelled smoke today, assumed it was somebody’s fireplace and didn’t even imagine. Freaky this shit is happening in December.
… Published in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, the paper compiles findings from a number of other studies and climate models that portray different warming scenarios to forecast when snowpacks around the West could start to decline. The paper also details past winters to provide an overview of current snowpack trends.
“One important takeaway from this is maybe not all of these studies agree on when the low-to-no-snow future is going to happen, but all of them agree that it’s likely and that it’s really not that far into the future,” said McKenzie Stiles, assistant professor at the University of Utah’s Geology Department...