• Johanno@feddit.org
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    1 hour ago

    December was never cold. I am the best December there ever was there was no other December better than me!

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    10 hours ago

    It’s only December 9 and the Chicago area has already had nearly 2 feet of snow fall. It’s going to be a looooooooong winter this year.

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    11 hours ago

    I’ve posted an original newspaper frontpage on my livingroom wall. It’s from the late 1980s, the year and date I was born. It’s got a giant photo of a wall of snow, with a small opening dug through it so that a car can pass through.

    Title says: Patience! We will have Mediterranean weather in 50 years.

  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
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    11 hours ago

    I mean, the snow part of the winter festivity iconography has had it’s run anyway.

    Snow on Christmas? That’s pre-internet for me.

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    18 hours ago

    25 years ago in my hometown in Hungary, my dad literally had to cut through the snow so I could get around. Snow was waist deep for him, and while that was a somewhat extreme winter (as in, the amount of snow we would get), up until around 2008-2010 winters would be proper cold and have snow.

    In the past 15 years we’ve had proper snow maybe once or twice, and even that disappears into disgusting slag within a day or two. That is if temperatures drop below 0C in December which doesn’t really happen nowadays.

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      10 hours ago

      We used to go to school on skis at least a few weeks at a time. Last year it had a bit of snow for almost two weeks. And that was a lot compared to the past 10 years

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Yeah same here. We used to have about 40-60cm of snow each winter about 15-20 years ago. We barely even get snow anymore. It just rains in the winter and it’s fucking depressing.

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    It’s been pretty cold here in the northern states. Maybe this can be the last cold December for all the zoomers and gen A to remember.

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      19 hours ago

      There was a sudden stratospheric warming event over the north pole, disrupting the polar vortex and sending cold air into the eastern US. The frequency and severity of those warming events is increasing due to anthropogenic climate change. It’s unlikely this will be the last time Zoomers experience this.

  • It’s been colder this first week of December than the whole winter was last year where I am. ‍But not colder than it ever has been. It regularly got this cold in the 90s. I remember my dad having to put insulation on the pipes outside for the lawn spigot because it would freeze over and break the pipes.