The end of february and early march here in the midwest was similarly brutal.
My local ski hill was poised to have a banner March, they had stockpiled an incredible amount of snow after a great year of natural snow. Nearly 2 times the average amount.
But the last week of february and first week of march was blowtorch weather. Rain and overnight lows higher than average highs. Daytime highs nearly 30° above normal.
It ended up closing its regular closing day.
But what killed me most was the regular people talking about how great it was it was 74° (30 above average) in March. Because it was 20° (10 below average) in February. I had to point out 30 above average in August is 112° before they lost thier sense of giddyness. Its going to be 84 on Sunday, which is 2° away from peak average summer temps. This summer is going to kill swathes of people.
what got me is initially folks were talking about how brutal the winter was and I was like. This is kinda what I would call typical before the 90’s. Now granted the double tap and what we got after new year maybe would have made it a bit worse than normal even back then but yeah the wierd swings have never been normal. I get it though. Its kinda nice to have some warm weather but while its nice as an individual in a point in time its scary as eff when you think about what its supposed to be and how abnormal it is and how we 100% its an effect from climate change but there are folks who want to pretend it does not exist.
The end of february and early march here in the midwest was similarly brutal.
My local ski hill was poised to have a banner March, they had stockpiled an incredible amount of snow after a great year of natural snow. Nearly 2 times the average amount.
But the last week of february and first week of march was blowtorch weather. Rain and overnight lows higher than average highs. Daytime highs nearly 30° above normal.
It ended up closing its regular closing day.
But what killed me most was the regular people talking about how great it was it was 74° (30 above average) in March. Because it was 20° (10 below average) in February. I had to point out 30 above average in August is 112° before they lost thier sense of giddyness. Its going to be 84 on Sunday, which is 2° away from peak average summer temps. This summer is going to kill swathes of people.
what got me is initially folks were talking about how brutal the winter was and I was like. This is kinda what I would call typical before the 90’s. Now granted the double tap and what we got after new year maybe would have made it a bit worse than normal even back then but yeah the wierd swings have never been normal. I get it though. Its kinda nice to have some warm weather but while its nice as an individual in a point in time its scary as eff when you think about what its supposed to be and how abnormal it is and how we 100% its an effect from climate change but there are folks who want to pretend it does not exist.
Especially with a (potentially super) El Niño coming mid-to-end of this year. I… am not excited for this summer, but I am terrified of next summer.