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[–] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Source: Dean Martin told me it's cold outside.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 17 points 11 months 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    December has been cold and snowy here this year. It's kind of nice.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    I had my air conditioner running today. Fuck Florida.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    It’s been pretty cold on the east coast so far this season

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    It is scorching hot, when was December ever cold.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago*

    Over the River and Through the Woods was originally a Thanksgiving song.

    About a century later, White Christmas was about a Vermont ski resort that didn’t have snow until December.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Warming does disrupt the usual seasons and often turns into something more like rainy and dry season.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months 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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  • [–] 4 points 11 months 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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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    It didn’t really snow until like last week here. And I live in central Alberta. It’s fucking wild. Not that I’m complaining about that, I just really hate the possible climate implications.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I'm too Australian for this hahaha

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I work outside in northeast Ohio. December is still cold.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Canadian here. December is still very cold up here.

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