Let’s talk about something boring but serious: the weather. In many parts of the world the weather is becoming less predictable, more erratic, and often catastrophically dangerous. Seeing firsthand accounts of this is sobering and a little terrifying, but I think open discussion is better than pretending it isn’t happening. Over here there have been several heatwaves and a slew of severe storms, and we’re expected to have a dry summer.
So, how has the weather been where you live? And how would you say it compares to what it was like several years ago?
It’s looking pretty bleak here in northern Utah. Winter was always a time to bundle up and deal with/play in the snow. That was like 10-15 years ago. Now, any snow we do get is usually gone within a few days, or it’ll skip the melting and just rain.
Unfortunately I don’t think we’ll ever get snow here even with the crazy weather patterns we’ve had lately. I heard it’s unusually mild in northerly places where it usually snows all winter this year.
We had about six inches from a storm a little over a week ago, but it’s now down to just an inch or two. We’re currently forecasted to get another inch tonight, and another eleven inches on Sunday. White Christmas for sure!
It only started getting to 40° in summer here in the last decade or so. Had maybe 44° on record, and that year some people died in their homes from the heat. Funny thing is nobody is ready for the mildly cold winter in Australia because we just don’t have central heating or strong insulation for it, so it’s rug up or freeze.
I have heard this is an issue in England and the like where it’s getting warmer and warmer over the summers, and the housing infrastructure isn’t prepared for AC to keep indoor temps in control as it just wasn’t really used there
