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MissingInAction
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Anyone in denial of climate change at this point is a certified window licker.

HornOnTheBayou
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Completely disagree. As you said, the evidence points in only one direction. The planet is getting warmer and both qualitative and quantitative data prove it. Now if you want to talk about the role of

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Are we still negging people who post oos weather?

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2 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:

Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, it's actually been legit Autumn for several weeks, and is about to be Winter up in the mountains. Lot of ski towns will be getting their first big snowfalls of the season this week. 

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Those are current temps.  Many of those 60s and 70s become 80s as well.

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Dude, we're still routinely hitting 90 and the lows the next few days don't get below 70, even with clouds and rain chances. Nighttime and Morning temps in the 40's and 50's warming up to 80 in the afternoon is not the same thing at all.

We're 5 weeks into "Autumn" and have spent less than 24 hours below 60 degrees thus far.

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So would you rather have 40 straight days of temps over 105 each year but fall comes like it should and October- May is normal weather or would you rather have a year like this with a half way decent summer but with shit stretched out having Sept and Oct being 95s and 90s resp all month. 

 

I will always trade 80 or 90 days of over 100 for a year like this but I'd be tempted to have a shit month of 30-40 days of 105s but get my normal fall and spring weather. My threshold is probably close to 45-50 days before I'd keep it as it is currently. 90s in late Oct feels wrong and shitty. 

But ask me again in late August and I'll likely have a different answer. 

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1 hour ago, UTGrad98 said:

So would you rather have 40 straight days of temps over 105 each year but fall comes like it should and October- May is normal weather or would you rather have a year like this with a half way decent summer but with shit stretched out having Sept and Oct being 95s and 90s resp all month. 

 

I will always trade 80 or 90 days of over 100 for a year like this but I'd be tempted to have a shit month of 30-40 days of 105s but get my normal fall and spring weather. My threshold is probably close to 45-50 days before I'd keep it as it is currently. 90s in late Oct feels wrong and shitty. 

But ask me again in late August and I'll likely have a different answer. 

TLDR; the best we can hope for is getting fucked in different ways.  "Not being fucked" is simply not an option.

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Just now, jimmyjazz said:

I don't care nearly so much about how hot it is or how long the heat lasts as I care that we are persistently short on rainfall.

It's okay.  We'll make up for it with a flood that is both incredibly devastating in the immediate term, yet not substantial enough to appreciably fill the lakes.

It's like you're new to this hellscape or something.

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11 hours ago, mchookem said:

82 in Denver today 😳 been breaking records all month. 

but we are finally getting our first cold front tomorrow. 

It's snowing hard in Aspen/Snowmass and Crested Butte this morning. Looks like Denver should get it's first dusting tomorrow and seems likely y'all are done with temps above 60 for the foreseeable future. 

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On 10/28/2024 at 1:10 PM, UTGrad98 said:

So would you rather have 40 straight days of temps over 105 each year but fall comes like it should and October- May is normal weather or would you rather have a year like this with a half way decent summer but with shit stretched out having Sept and Oct being 95s and 90s resp all month. 

The latter. It being 92 in November sucks but 90 is liveable. 

105+ for weeks when the sun doesn't go down until 8 pm is just suffocating and barely liveable imo. 

Not that I'm a fan of either option. 

On 10/28/2024 at 3:48 PM, jimmyjazz said:

I don't care nearly so much about how hot it is or how long the heat lasts as I care that we are persistently short on rainfall.

Well those things are related.

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On 10/28/2024 at 1:49 PM, Brisketexan said:

It's okay.  We'll make up for it with a flood that is both incredibly devastating in the immediate term, yet not substantial enough to appreciably fill the lakes.

It's like you're new to this hellscape or something.

At least you have your own electric grid

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3 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

It’s fucking shitty this morning. When is the god damn humidity going away?

Middle of next week, maybe. Until then expect days like today.

At least there are some actual water droplets falling from the sky in my area. Almost forgot what that looked like. 

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19 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:

Another weekend ahead where the low doesn't get out of the 70's. Moderate cool front should bring some more storms late Monday/early Tuesday and drop temps a bit closer to average. 

more you say? more? 

where were the first ones? 

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This October’s heat ‘blows away’ the previous record set 77 years ago

There was a moment, sometime in July, when it looked like Austin would get off easy for a change.

Unseasonably heavy rains into the summer kept temperatures below the expected summer scorch. Even area reservoirs were recovering. Maybe this year, people thought, we’d escape the brutal heat that has characterized recent years.

Then came the fall. September was one of Austin's driest and hottest in 126 years of record keeping. October was even worse.

By midday on Halloween, it appeared that Austin’s daily high temperatures for October would average out to 91.6 degrees.

“This blows away the previous record high of 88.4F set in 1947,” Victor Murphy, a Climate Services program manager, at the National Weather Service, wrote to KUT.

October nights did cool off a bit, thanks to low humidity brought by a near complete absence of rain. But those nights, on average, were still much warmer than usual. They were the fifth warmest lows on record to be exact.

Put those average highs and lows together, and we just lived through the warmest October ever recorded.

With a mean temperature of around 78.2, Murphy said, this October was 6.4 degrees warmer than normal, and exceeded the previous record of 77 degrees Fahrenheit set in 1931 by 1.2 degrees.

In fact, this October was so hot that, looking back at the historical data, a quarter of all Septembers in Austin have been cooler than this recent October.

The high temperatures are in keeping with long term trends, brought by the burning of fossil fuels, that will continue to make Texas hotter and hotter, according to the Office of the State Climatologist.

While some rain is forecast for the area over the next several days. The longer-term outlook is less promising, with a weak La Niña climate pattern making a drier and warmer winter more likely in Texas.

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On 11/2/2024 at 5:57 PM, bolverk said:

The high temperatures are in keeping with long term trends, brought by the burning of fossil fuels, that will continue to make Texas hotter and hotter, according to the Office of the State Climatologist.

I'm far from a climate denier but this is such a hack fucking phrase to include. Climate doesn't boil down to how much fossil fuel is being burned - yes, it's a huge factor - but that's both extremely poor journalism and writing. We don't live in a vacuum environment with one single variable.

Oh look - it's KUT. Shocker.

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Currently mid-60's and raining in Houston. First time in weeks that it doesn't feel "warm" outside. Alas, it's not gonna last for us. We'll be back to the low 80's with high humidity tomorrow and Thursday. Generally crappy weather for us the next 6-7 days, with highs 5 above average, lows 10 above average and muggy.

Gonna be in Baton Rouge this weekend for LSU/Bama game. Will be in the low 80's and swampy at a goddamn November tailgate. So tired of this shit.

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On 11/5/2024 at 8:46 AM, Storm the Field said:

Currently mid-60's and raining in Houston. First time in weeks that it doesn't feel "warm" outside. Alas, it's not gonna last for us. We'll be back to the low 80's with high humidity tomorrow and Thursday. Generally crappy weather for us the next 6-7 days, with highs 5 above average, lows 10 above average and muggy.

High between 81-85 every day the next 7 days, with the exception of a rainy Saturday. 

Starting to feel like it will just permanently be September in SETX for the rest of 2024. 

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