What climate change effects have you noticed in day to day life?
What climate change effects have you noticed in day to day life?
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I'm in the UK and it's got so hot some years it's unfathomable. We got to 30 degrees a couple of years ago! We're not built for it and it's awful.
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Not 30C, but 40! I was putting the washing out on the line and the first items were practically dry by the time I'd put the last things on.
My wife was also heavily pregnant at the time so It was definitely not fun for her!
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You really have my sympathy
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Shorter winter, much less snow, and some bird sounds I remember from when I was a kid have disappeared from the summer ambience as they've migrated further north.
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I grew up in a tiny mountain valley 1000m above sea level. We had this small ski resort and in winter we would always go there. We could just ski down the street and take the first lift next to the street. This was for 2 months at least the case each winter. Nowadays there isn't as much snow anymore. The single remaining lift is mostly closed and you could ski down the street on a few days only. And this was just 20 years ago!!
We have a also a bigger resort around here. There is a slope all the way down to the parking lot. Hasn't been open in years now😕
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Less snow. More fire.
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Stink bugs in November/ December. I used to have winters without flying insects…
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Weather is now more unpredictable.
Last year we had a May where nearly everyday hit 100°f. That usually doesn't happen until August.
This year we had a storm that dropped 15" of rain in one day. We normally get 25" in a year in my area.
We've had two years in the last five that actually got under 32°f which usually happens once a decade or less. Many plants here can't tolerate that weather so they die.
Tornados in other parts of the country seem more destructive. They are also happening further East.
Hurricane's are also a problem for the coastal regions. My area hasn't been affected by them but I am expecting that to change.
Weather is more extreme on each end of the spectrum.
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Tornados are the one I was going to bring up. The area I'm currently in rarely even saw potential formations with only one ever really fully forming, and that one was devastating.
In a recent storm, we had 4 touch down around us. Didn't get down in our valley, thankfully, but they were extremely close. Even when we're not in a watch/warning, everyone has noticed that the storms are more intense, and more frequent. We didn't even have our full round of frosts before the temperature started climbing and the rain started moving in, which has also affected local flora and fauna.
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Currently hazy from smoke. We have "wildfire season" now and half of Canada is either smoky or on fire. Had it bad two years ago too. I'm not that old but it didn't happen when I was younger that I remember.
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Sounds apocalyptic stay safe. How good is Canada at dealing with climate change?
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It's definitely eerie seeing the skies darken knowing that another province is burning down. Thankfully I'm not too bothered by the poor air quality. For Canada, I don't know much. We have lots of fresh water and most of our country is difficult to enhabit due to the cold already, so we are probably in a better position than many globally central areas.
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The real fun is that smoke travels. I'm far to your south, but my city is also covered in a haze. Canadian wildfire season hurts the whole North American Northeast, yet we still have politicians in both countries claiming it's not a problem.
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We called June “Junuary” because it still rained quite a bit. We didn’t have “Fire Season” when I was a kid, it was still safe to have campfires in August. There might have been a few days each summer where the temperature exceeded 100F / 38C. We didn’t have air conditioning, but it wasn’t really necessary. Summer weather was over by late September, but I don’t recall it ever being very “hot” once school started. It was mostly gray and rainy November to May.
Now, summer weather seems to start in May. It’s about to be 90F / 32C the next few days and I find myself wishing for more rain every June. There are forest fires every year, fire bans go into effect early to mid July, late summer the air is hazy and smells like smoke. There’s usually a solid week that exceeds 100F / 38C. Portable AC units are necessary for survival. I’m usually still wearing shorts and a shirt into the second half of October, my partner’s birthday is on the 20th and that’s been the last “long summer night” where we stay out until 2AM the past few years. Winter’s been a lot sunnier than it used to be, we usually get a “false spring” event in March. “April Showers” feel like they’ve been missing.
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More rain than usual in our part of NSW, Australia.
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native bees just dont exist anymore. actually the only bugs left are the shitty ones.
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We've never had snow here (it's a desert after all) but now, it's less cold, and right now it's 44c and no more rain.
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In Southeast Pennsylvania (Philly suburbs):
- Winters are way more mild with much less snow. We were recently rezoned from 7a to 7b, which tells me the USDA believes this change isn't going to revert.
- Summers are a lot hotter and more humid (and there are so many goddamn mosquitoes!)
- We get really strong wind gusts now - it's not uncommon for the day's forecast to have wind at 25 mph (about 40 kph) with gusts at 45 mph (about 72 kph)
- We get tornado alerts a few times each summer now. Those used to be super rare.
- We get haze as the soot from the Canadian wildfires drifts in our direction
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So so much windier.
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No Christmas beetles
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Floods are much more common now.
Also: relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1321 -
So much rain.
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Something lots of older people have told me is that the sheer drop in insect numbers is what opened their eyes to climate change. Jeremy Clarkson denied climate change exists until he saw a dry river in 2019 and even now says it's not man made. Despite all this he was concerned about how few butterflies he sees nowadays. Broken clocks and all that...