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Orange One, you’re our only hope…
Orange One, you’re our only hope…
This is exactly it. But it doesn’t fit on a hat or bumper sticker so the details get ignored.
40 years ago, we had to worry about hurricanes occasionally, and you could usually count on a handful of powerful nor’easters each winter. Thunderstorms in the summer were frequent but rarely severe. We used to go out in the yard and watch the light show as they approached.
In the last 10 years or so, thunderstorms have turned into deluge events, and are starting sooner in the year. It’s a coin flip whether a severe storm will be accompanied by a tornado watch/warning. My friends got lucky last spring, only sustaining minor porch damage while less than a hundred yards away dozens of trees were downed, some falling onto roofs. One of 12 tornadoes in the area that day. We’ve had double-digit tornado counts only 4 times in the past 70-some years, and three of them were in the past 5 years.
This is not normal.
God I’m an idiot
Disagree but I’m way too tapped to get into that argument lol. Ya goofed, the end. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
OT 1 is available on PS. OT 2 is available on Xbox.
A prior resident of my house ditched the electric oven for a gas stove. So I’ve got the juice, and it’s on my list of appliances to replace… just not sure how to test the existing circuit without pulling the current stove to access the outlet. The breaker was off when we moved in, which could be precautionary. Or it could be why they replaced the stove to begin with.
Drained Bogs
Florida in shambles
…more than usual, at any rate.
Yeah, I tried to do the whole no-mow thing for a while. Between invasive vines shading the soil and heavy rains washing the now-loose soil away, my backyard is pretty much dead.
I’d argue that the 20th century already selected for that and we are reaping the “rewards” as we speak.
It’s easy if you’re a sociopath.
I half expect some folks will put out little trays of water in their yard for the harmless mosquitos to breed in. “I got bit by a mosquito once and it was just a little itchy. Don’t be a baby.”
The article touched on pretty much every anecdotal point I could possibly make. About 10 years ago, the decades-long pattern of “it’s hot and humid today, might get a thunderstorm in the afternoon or early evening” turned to “flash flood deluge for 20 minutes 3-4 times a week.” 3-4 years ago, we started adding droughts into the mix. Weeks without a single drop of rain, then an inch or two of water dumped in minutes. This past month was a pretty good snapshot of the general pattern:
In aggregate it cheekily masks as “about average,” but the majority of those downbursts just run off and the ground is baked back to dust a few days later.
Meanwhile, the humidity/dew point has been rising steadily, especially overnight. Clear nights that allowed daytime heat to radiate off became less common, in its place we now get weeks at a time where the temperature doesn’t drop below 70 at near-saturation. I was watching one of the PBS YouTube channels (Terra, maybe) a year or so ago and they showed a time lapse of ocean surface temperature changes. Sure enough, there was a hot spot off the coast of NJ. “Well, that tracks. 😑”
I noticed the trees started dropping leaves in mid-August a few years ago despite it being warm into October. Spring and fall are shrinking, with precious few weeks in the year where neither the heat nor the AC need to run.
People like to dunk on Florida because of the politics, and NJ because of the stereotypes. Both are in deep shit right now. The entirety of South Jersey is considered coastal plain, and a lot of the land around NYC is low elevation. The next few decades will not be pretty.