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How has the weather in your region changed in recent years? (beehaw.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Aside from heat that I am fundamentally not built for, we had an actual tornado near me yesterday. Tornadoes are not completely unheard I guess, but they’re not common or something that we really plan for where I live. Humidity has also been wildly over the top, and pretty consistent instead of occasional. It feels almost tropical, or what I would imagine tropical weather to be. I’m from a traditionally cold-ish, temperate place. We have always gotten all kinds of weird weather but it feels a lot more consistently steamy and intense than it used to. What weird new weather things are happening where you live? How are you adapting to them? (How on earth do you cope when everything feels wet?)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

My highschool hasn't seen a snow day in about 5 years, and we had several years where they had to extend the school year from so many snow days.

The lake nearby froze over solid enough when my dad was a teenager, he and his brothers would drive on the ice for fun donuts without worrying about the tires. It hasn't frozen over since I was a child.

The summers of my childhood rarely topped 95, but now not only is that the new "average", it's gotten to 90s in the middle of winter multiple times in the last ten years.

Recently saw a thermometer over 100, which based on temperature records, that only happened a handful of times from 1900-2000.