14°C = 57°F
My best Christmas ever was in Belgium. We were supposed to go to Germany for the day to visit distant relatives. A blizzard closed everything and instead I got to stay in a bathrobe and read.
Now I would have to go and pack a bathing costume. I am not a fan of climate change.
I won’t ever forget how cold it got here last Christmas in Appalachia.
I closed the store for the 24th and 25th. When I came back the place was flooded because the heat stopped working and the pipes in the ceiling exploded. The entire store was flooded and I spent the day after Christmas pushing water out of the store.
I had to take a heater and melt the ice to finish the job.
What a nightmare.
My city is expecting the first rainy Christmas in recorded history. The Earth is so screwed.
Forget White Christmas, the next generation will celebrate Wet Christmas instead.
Welcome to an Australian Christmas
Aussies really have trouble with spelling, huh?
Bogans
I love seeing these comments that completely ignore the southern hemisphere
Everyone know Australia is fake
I love this bit:
There is apparently no suggestion that South America is fictional nor has the existence of New Zealand so far been questioned.
It’s just fuck Australia in particular, everything else is fine. :-P
Stfu! What the fuck you doing?! We got a good thing going on here!
Santa on water skis always looked cool
Same here in the UK. Far too warm.
These are the temps in the notoriously cold Minnesota as well. I’m unsettled and upset.
Yup. I’m Northwest of you in Canada and I can see my lawn. I’m not supposed to see my lawn…
(At least until March at the earliest. We have a little bit of snow but not much, most of it melted)
Same in Wisconsin, lawn is greener now in December than it was in June because we had a drought this summer. It’s really uncomfortable.
January and February is when it normally gets cold here.
People like to pretend that Christmas was a time of snow and ice, but that’s pretty rare. Dickens wrote about them, but his childhood coincided with the coldest decade in over a century.
Lived in my city for 37 years. Never had a “brown Christmas” until this year. It has also been above freezing every day this winter. Not the norm.
Mate what? You typically see -3 to maybe 7C. It’s 13-14C today it seems. That’s not normal.
The warmest Christmas in UK history is 15C. Yesterday was the hottest Christmas eve since 1997. We won’t know until tomorrow if today is the hottest Christmas on record.
Quit your climate change denial bullshit.
As Global Warming slowly kills us all, try to enjoy it!:-) 😭
And reconsider if you want to have kids given the worst is almost certainly yet to come.
At least we won’t be cold.
Sadly, that part comes later as well:-(.
The only bright side is that after the adjustment period, Earth is going to be just fine - no lie! (Humans living on it though… that’s a bit of a different story now…😞)
Nuclear winter is calling
I’m living on the south coast of Ireland.
Normal temps this time of year should be between 0° and 10°C (32F to 50F)
It hasn’t been less than 10°C all this week, it shows on my car on the way to work. Fucking scary how this is only the beginning and we are in no way prepared for this.
True, but think of the shareholders
Until the gulf stream gets fucked, then Ireland, the UK, and plenty of other places in Europe will suddenly plummet in temperature. Remember we’re further north than the bulk of Canada… fun times ahead.
That sounds awesome yall are going come out way on top of this climate change thing
Blub blub blub gargle gargle blub.
- Dutch person, now metres below sea level
I live in the NW of the US. We’ve barely gotten to fall yet, let alone winter.
Just wait for Easter either with -10°C or with 30°C…
That Polar Vortex tilting off the center, catches you by surprise and suddenly every road in North Dakota is closed for 5 days.
It is 20C where I am. I don’t remember it ever being over 5-10 in this area, during December. I’m still wearing shorts, while usually going outside without a thick hoodie and a scarf used to be a stupid idea.
And on the flip side of that, the summer was so hot, that we all had to bunker inside, to avoid high humidity heat.
Laughs in Australian with regular +30°C Christmases
I think the bushes are on fire, mate.
Laughs in Argentinian with regular +40°C Christmases lately
Yeah, we had 27 yesterday (Christmas eve) and light rain all day. Very uncomfortable for New Zealand. At least today is a tad cooler
I honestly wasn’t expecting such humidity in an el niño summer
Meanwhile here in Adelaide…A drizzle of rain and a top of 18C
What. The. Fuck.
Similar in the Capitol, unusual weather. It’s gonna get bad the next few years I reckon (assuming we get through this summer unscathed).
This is the coldest Christmas you’ll have from here on… It’ll only get warmer.
Not really how climate change works. While the average global temperature will trend higher, there will be colder and hotter seasons, each getting more extreme as they go back and forth. There will be hotter heat waves and colder cold snaps.
Wanna know a fun fact?
Air conditioning stops working effectively around 120F and decreases in efficiency as it gets hotter because the condenser cannot effectively discharge heat into the air.
Freshwater sources are drying up worldwide with absolute proof and nobody cares.
Take a serious look at moving somewhere moderate. The ultra wealthy are all building fortified compounds in the Michigan peninsula. Why?
It’s possible to engineer a condenser that outputs 60-80°C using exotic gases/coolant blends, but you’re right, the standard residential A/C is going to be operating at around 48°C.
Oh, of course, no doubt! I’m a child if late middle 80’s, growing up in a western coast in Norway. There was always snow during winter. The last 15 years has shown MAYBE a day or two of snow, then warmer again.
And then we had the sudden cold for a couple of weeks, which postponed the construction of a new parking lot with about two months due to the frost in the ground (there was something like a sudden 2-3 weeks of -10 Celsius).
Then we have the summer of 18 in Europe. Even Norway was so dry everything turned yellow.
It happens, but I do think that in some climates, like Norway, it’ll mostly get warmer with the freak occurrence of cold/heat (depending on the season). My previous comment is for the general term, not to be taken literally.
And thank you! I’ve missed having a constructive discussions on the internet. Happy holidays!
The infuriating part here is that there are still people the think climate change is a hoax, even though we see the first effects right here, right now. Last year was similar. I remember it being like 16 degrees on New Year’s Eve. Fucking madness…
It’s 70 F here in Houston, Texas. It is also wet and disgusting outside.
Had a discussion with the wife about the last winter. That there will be a last winter with meaningfully cold temperatures was something that she had not considered at all.
There won’t be, climate is more complicated than that
VAI BRAZIL NUMERO UNO 🏆🥇🥇☝️☝️🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷Even in winter you’ll hardly ever see snow anywhere in Brazil yet our christmas decorations would make you think this is Northern Canada lol
Vamos todos morrer cozidos nessa merda
It’s raining in the Dakotas today, usually I’m ice fishing
