• Eq0@literature.cafe
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      20 days ago

      It has encompassed most of Europe and North America… and a reasonably fitting descriptor to me

    • iocase@lemmy.zip
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      20 days ago

      Super El Nino not just a heat wave. The last time something of this magnitude hit the world there was a record famine and mass death in India, and the monsoons were mostly or completely dry (depending on where) for 3 years afterwards. That’s why people are joking about it being the last cool summer for 5-6 years… It’s just going to be hotter and drier…

      Other areas are going to get hammered with rain. I live in Canada and the prairies of Alberta and foothills east of the Canadian Rockies got hammered with record rain that’s drowning crops. They got an entire year’s rainfall in 1 month.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        20 days ago

        I’m in California. Normal el niños give us moderate flooding. I’m tempted to stock up on sand and sandbags this summer, before the rush

        • iocase@lemmy.zip
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          20 days ago

          Probably a good idea… The irony is the Colorado River is so low a lot of southern Cali and Nevada might run out of water.

          • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            20 days ago

            Funnily enough, Arizona has been taking this way more seriously than California. Probably because California has multiple water sources.