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I swear to God every summer is hotter than the one before (lemmy.today)
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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

The interesting thing about the summer where I live right now is that we are actually far cooler than any summer recently. Last summer we hit 40 plus days of 100° or more. The Summer before that we are over 20 days of 100°. Not saying that we won't get there yet but, we have yet to even hit 100° and I'm not sure we've even hit in the '90s for more than a couple of hours. At the same time the entire state is on fire because we also had one of the most mild winters with the lowest amount of snowfall in recent records. So yes climate change is real and doesn't always mean hotter weather sometimes it means fucked up weather. For example Idaho Montana and Wyoming all have snow warnings for this week including possibly up to 2 ft of snow in Montana 10 inches of snow in Wyoming and 8 to 10 in of snow in Idaho. Last week there was a snowstorm in ice flows going down Nampa Idaho. So heat doesn't the only worry here.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    el nino is fucking the weather pattern. last one i remember this weird was in 1995 or 1996. I expect massive floods next winter.

    i did whitewater rafting guiding back then (South Fork, American, California) and the houses along the river i guided were in different spots when we were learning the river after the bad flood year in the 90s. Which i think was 96 and right after el nino. we had been doing the chris farley joke right up until the flooding and seeing the houses moved like, a few hundred feet really put it into perspective. We figured they had been on pier foundations or something and the floodwaters just picked them up and carried them downstream a little.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    This el nino is literally breaking all records or expectations. We haven't had anything even close to this strong since 1877, the year without a winter, when an estimated 50 million people (3% of global population at the time) died from famines and heat stress. This is much stronger than scientist think even that was. It's so ridiculously above any prediction of what was even possible that they don't know how to describe it.

    There are already crop failures reported and the Midwest looks ripe to turn into a dust bowl again.

    There will be extreme weather the world over this year and next, no doubt. I expect massive famines in much of the poorer parts of the world but even greatly affecting food prices in the west and China.

    It is completely impossible to overstate just how devastatingly bad every new piece of data is looking.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (2 children)

    And a trade war clogging up phosphate shipping (I don't know if it happened, but the timing was right and that's a major route) definitely helped. I recommend everyone learn to grow their own food. I have a good guidebook if you've got like half an acre and enough room to dig furrows (G, author of the guidebook, insisted that was how to do it and he grew the best watermelons I ever et. Size of my thigh. Been gone a couple decades and I've still been looking for watermelons that delicious) between the rows.

    If you have a patio/balcony for your outdoor space instead of a yard, square foot gardening is the way to go.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah every fertilizer plant in Bangladesh and most in India were shut down earlier this year due to the closing of the straight. They may have reopened by now, but they lack of production could have impacts. Stores of fertilizer were used up to compensate and with heat/water stress, you need more fertilizer.

    There is still time to plant things if you can. Do some research to make sure you can harvest in your climate zone (and the zones have been updated now as well in the last few years)before the frost arrives, if it ever does. Be prepared to baby your garden to make sure it doesnt scorch in the heat.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    They have those mesh whatsits you can make a sunshade out of and turn full sun into partial sun. This summer's "argument" is whether we build a hoop house (hoop house fuck i love saying that. maybe if i stop having so much fun saying hoop house it will help my argument) over the garden.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Snow just in the mountains surely? Every 1,000 feet of elevation gain the temperature generally drops 3.5 degrees.

    Above 6k feet in the western side of the north cascades the growing season doesn't start until well into august and half through september, and there is still snow in parts. But they get monster snowfall on the wet side of the mountains there.

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