It felt surreal arguing with boomers about record breaking temperatures the other day. Like, a new record was just broken for the highest temperatures in many European countries while we're sitting there, sweating our balls off in the middle of a 2 week long heat wave. "Nah" they kept saying "We've had hot days before." When I showed them statistics they refused to look at them. Instead they changed the topic instantly and ignored me for a good 15 minutes. Those weren't some strangers I just met, mind you. I've known these guys for my entire life.

Too many people but especially older people (at least from my experience) are completely delusional about climate. They aren't interested in facts, not interested in other people telling them they're wrong and they even ignore what they're experiencing themselves right now in favor of a severely distorted, rather vague idea of what a summer used to be 50 years ago.

Credit the fucking artist. This is Shenanigansen.

You'll still get the winter from the top panel, spring oscillates between summer and winter weather on a weekly basis, and fall is just floods.

I remember when 30° was considered acute.

It's usually like this were i live, but the fall sometimes has some cute floods that kill a couple of people and destroy buildings

Yep, Denver’s winter felt like perpetual spring this year right into summer. I miss winter so much. Now we’re in “shit’s on fire everywhere” season…just getting started. I’m sure the high winds will make an appearance soon too.

As someone from the equator:

It's equally likely for winter to make old winters seem like mild springs in comparison. Climate change makes all weather events more extreme.

Ive had long hair almost all of my life. Today Im getting a mohawk because I'm tired of being this sweaty all the time.

I loved that winter.

IMO it's much more subtle. There are still really cold days in winter. There are still mild days in summer. You can even have a whole summer that's cool or a whole winter that's incredibly cold. I've heard that one of the effects of climate change is that the weather is more unpredictable.

Having said that, there's a winter festival here that relies on naturally frozen outdoor water. A couple of years ago they had to cancel it because for the first time since it started it never got cold and stayed cold enough. If you look at the data, the length of that festival has been getting shorter and shorter every year. As for summer, having an air conditioner used to be uncommon, now it's a necessity.

It's tricky because some of that is lifestyle creep. An air conditioner used to be a much more expensive luxury, but now they're cheaper. Technology changes, expectations change, so behaviour changes. We're also notoriously bad at remembering what was normal in the past. We remember events and extremes, not averages. But, the number of days a festival can stay open in the winter is a much more concrete thing. It was just a given that it would be about 2 weeks when I was a kid, and they had a lot of freedom when it could be. Now it's a matter of waiting for the weather to cooperate, and often it can't run the full 2 weeks.

During this heatwave have been discussing with wife about moving north of Scotland after we retire... we were heaving 38+ and they had a warm 15...

I was dreading summer this year in SC since the scorching spring just canceled the rain for weeks on end and launched us into extreme drought, one of the worst since they started making records. So I expected surely summer would twist the knife and crispify everything even worse. Then surprisingly summer turned around and has unusually had almost too regular deep bouts of moderating rain and thunderstorms that pulled us back to only abnormally dry for the year so far and kept things from getting too hot (though the humidity has miserable, like stepping out into a mouth). I thought spring was supposed to be the rainy season here… still, even with a lush green summer saving us I think it was still not great for a lot of the native insects and the less drought tolerant native plants. One of my blueberry plants and the maypop seedlings I had going up and died even with some supplemental watering and the previously numerous bees mostly vanished when their numbers dropped off a cliff. That left little competition when paper wasps hatched and proliferated after the worst was over and I’m a lot more leery of those territorial guys and the aggressive yellowjackets than the cute bumblebees due to my phobia. 😔

Lol we're so fucked

Down in Houston, TX my seasons are

• Warm and Wet: 3mo

• Hot and Wet: 3mo

• Wet Bulb: 3mo

• Endless Rain: 2mo

• Warm and Windy: 2mo

• Surprise! Natural Disaster!: ???

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.

In the Canadian PNW, 2025 was frequently called a “1990’s summer” due to how mild and reasonable it was. Sure, we still had heat waves. But like the early 1990s, they only lasted for a day or three and not a week or three. They also kept to the 30s and didn’t toad-squat in the 40s like some demented sauna.

It was a beautiful summer. My family’s orchard had a record harvest thanks to it.

Where I live up north the winter is still 7/12 of the whole year

This is how it feels year-round in Phoenix, Arizona. 😭

Meanwhile there was just a snow storm in Idaho when it should be around 55–80°F this time of year.

They all need to be jackyl and hide style today. Couple days of cold April weather, then bam 40c.

Meanwhile I'm in SoCal and it's barely breaking past 70f in fucking June. Climate change is real but I'm actually enjoying it right now, now if only I wasn't a pale motherfucker then I could enjoy it without being reduced to burnt bacon by UV.

That is midnight around here. Its currenly 31C here at 8:19pm.

I've been in shorts since COVID. Absolutely no point in trousers any more.

Maryland is now Flordia and Florida is now hell..

GOT IT

I fuckin can't stand summer or spring.

fall is ok because it has pretty colors and cool days.

I miss winter. you know, the winters where there was two feet of snow outside that lasted for more than 24 hours.

I remember the last time I got two feet of snow, it all melted the next day when it was 94°F

As a serb, yall are only now getting temperatures we've had since I know myself lmao, stuffs always been this bad, it's only now obvious everywhere

Oh no. you've gotten california seasons.

Good news! you can start growing shit year round maybe. Like there are even a few extreme heat resistant plants, but i'd build some hoop houses (hoop house) to protect your plant babies wherever law allows