How do these meteorologists not have a breakdown live on air...

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Complex_Draw_6335@reddit

I'll be honest, if you told a 14th century European peasant that bible-thumping pedophiles would make it flood on Christmas and your town would be beseeched by a river of pumpkins they wouldn't even flinch.

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Careless_City516@reddit

14th century peasants: “woah woah… what the fuck is a pumpkin?”

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forecxst@reddit

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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slifm@reddit

Oh my

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Laringar@reddit

Shoutout to the aussies drinking white wine on the front porch for Christmas. Here in North Carolina (middle of the east coast, USA) it's been unseasonably cold for the last few weeks due to the breakdown in the polar vortex air currents allowing frigid arctic air to blanket the US. So a white Christmas didn't seem that far-fetched, but today it's about 60F (16C), so such hopes are quickly slipping away again. My partner has family in the Chicago area, where it is currently 17F (-8C) with the accumulated snow of multiple snowstorms over the past few weeks still on the ground, so they're still in the running.

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Tetraphosphate_@reddit

Funnily enough, I've got a friend who's lived in southern NZ all her life. She said she's seen 3 white Christmases in 60 yrs (ie snow in summer), but it's not happened for a long time.

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Fickle_Stills@reddit

Is she really high altitude?

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Tetraphosphate_@reddit

Nope, in a city on the coast

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Fickle_Stills@reddit

i don't believe any of new Zealand at sea level has a climate to support summer snow. I think she's fucking with you 😸

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Tetraphosphate_@reddit

Eh maybe. Do you live here? December is still kinda cold down the south of NZ. Personally I call it "extended spring." Right now, today it's snowing down to 1200m in Canterbury today, even though it's been a particularly warm spring. Not a big stretch to imagine that some 40, 50 yrs ago it snowed in the hills of Dunedin. These days we only get 1-2 days of snow in Dunedin, in the winter. Older people tell me it used to be much, much more 40 yrs ago.

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Gon_777@reddit

I was 40c today where I am. I'm holed up sitting in the dark smoking blunts. Too hot for anything else.

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dovercliff@reddit

> Shoutout to the aussies drinking white wine on the front porch for Christmas. Well, right now the most [the most heavily populated part of the country is under a heatwave warning](https://www.bom.gov.au/warning/heatwave-warning/IDN21013) - it's too hot to do that safely for a lot of people. On the bright side, it should abate by the 25th.

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CosmicButtholes@reddit

Even in Florida it’s usually chillier this time of year with highs in the 60s. Highs have been mid-high 70s and lows only mid 50s. It was kinda cold for a couple weeks but started getting super warm last week. Can’t remember the last time I needed to turn the heaters off in late December, let alone hear the ac kick on.

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Spunknikk@reddit

It was 80 degrees here in Los Angeles last week it's cooled down this week but it feels like early spring rather than early winter... I was made fun of on another sub because "I should be happy" to be living in nice weather in LA but 1. My body can't acclimate correctly so I get heat sickness and 2. It shouldn't be this warm in December!!!

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new2bay@reddit

White wine Christmas… now, that’s a thought.

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Laringar@reddit

Right? It wouldn't have occured to me except for this [song by Tim Minchin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q)

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ErCi597@reddit

It was 49 degrees yesterday with rain Most of the snow is gone. It will be in the 40s this weekend and 50 on Christmas. No snow this Christmas

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Captainshadesra@reddit

Nah, it rained all day yesterday and was in the 40s (f) yesterday, so most of the snow is gone except for the big plow piles. (Source) I'm just North of Chicago

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Gon_777@reddit

Ironically in the middle of Tasmania they might get a white christmas. I'm up in the SE mainland and it's between 30-40c every day here. Huge temp difference. It's all out of whack.

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Suitable_Isopod4770@reddit

lol I was sweating last week in western Montana

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cr0ft@reddit

"No, we'll probably never have those again, considering climate change is speeding up and is probably going to kill us all" is probably a bit of a downer for a Christmas report.

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HardlyRecursive@reddit

By what mechanism would climate change kill us all exactly?

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DogFennel2025@reddit

Is this a bot? I’ve been trying to learn how to identify them.

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HardlyRecursive@reddit

Maybe use your brain, crazy idea huh. You could take a look at someone's other comments and figure out in 5 seconds that it isn't a bot. Now someone answer the question and explain exactly how we're all going to die, as in all humans, within our lifetime as the post I was replying to implies.

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DogFennel2025@reddit

Okay. Sorry, I’m new to Reddit. I didn’t realize I could find a single persons posts and review them. But I know now! (Thanks.) I think a lot of people feel that famine, heat, wars, pandemics and drought will wipe out humans fairly soon (geologically speaking). I didn’t get that from the OP. I live in the southern US, and I suspect that heat is going to kill a lot of people within the next few decades. A big storm, followed by weeks of power outage, 100+ degree heat and no cooling centers because climate change is a hoax . . . Not to mention wells going dry due to drought, crop failures and armed idiots squabbling over politics. Maybe that’s not in your lifetime but it is so in mine.

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altpopconnoisseur@reddit

do you think you're so important that you feel you can make these sorts of demands on an anonymous internet forum?

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HardlyRecursive@reddit

feel free to keep letting fear run a train on your life, i dont care

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laughing_at_napkins@reddit

I'm so glad that we as a society agreed that it's better to feel good than it is to deal with the truth.

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DogFennel2025@reddit

Did you know that here in Florida schools don’t teach about slavery because it makes some people feel bad? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-florida-standards-teach-black-people-benefited-slavery-taught-usef-rcna95418 Pathetic.

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jessh164@reddit

i just clicked and its somehow worse than that - they tell them that slaves PERSONALLY BENEFITTED from being enslaved. insane.

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chrismetalrock@reddit

feeling good makes more profit

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Direct_Explorer_7827@reddit

/s ....? 😏

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1808AIEngineer@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/tjc4j48kz68g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0132aca65b3421342edf08d78a9ec96c8bee16b This is not Australia...this is Houston, Texas

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Mountain_Gold_4734@reddit

I can tell it's not Australia because none of those numbers make sense... lol But seriously, I feel like I need a page open on google at all times to convert F to C when I'm reading these posts. When we are all hitting 60°C we will have a big problem for sure.

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Fickle_Stills@reddit

(F-32)/1.8=C ❤️ Minus 32 divide by 2 gives a close enough estimate

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lost_horizons@reddit

Gonna be 80°F here in Austin Texas. I won’t lie, it’s comfortable but also, a bad sign of things to come.

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Double_Ground8911@reddit

I was harvesting tomatoes here in UK until the first week of December... perfectly normal and absolutely nothing to worry about.

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FruitPlatter@reddit

Here in southern Norway we have no snow or ice, and every night has been well above freezing. I take my dogs out in shorts and a t-shirt. Never seen anything like it.

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rebb_hosar@reddit

Same in western norway.

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Bellybutton_fluffjar@reddit (OP)

My peppers are still going...

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MellowDCC@reddit

Cause they butthole scissor between segments to help reduce anxiety

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ManufacturerWild430@reddit

The last 5 years or so that I lived in Pennsylvania it was 60+ degrees on Christmas day. I understand the area is getting some snow this year but man....that was a weird thing to experience. I have horses and was use to having to blanket them Oct through April. The longer I lived there the less I had to blanket them. It was just too warm.

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Geaux13Saints@reddit

It WAS single digits last week with like 6” of snow and now it’s in the 50s and raining 😒

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Spunknikk@reddit

It's early spring here in Los Angeles... We had temps in the 80s last week... It's "cooled" down this week.... I hate it...

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MammothAdeptness2211@reddit

I’m sorry but my yard and tree think it’s early October

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BitchfulThinking@reddit

It's *actually* cold in central CA 😣 We had flowers blooming in the Angeles forest after the rain, until the frost.

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Captainshadesra@reddit

Sup fellow American Midwesterner....

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VinniPuh10@reddit

Same weather here in the northeast

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LamiaMoth@reddit

News says St Lou is supposed to be above 70 for the holiday. Last year was a green xmas.

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Fredrick_Dinkledick@reddit

I'm in southern Oregon and it's unsettling how much warmer it feels compared to the last few years.

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Comrade_Compadre@reddit

Me, sweating in a TTop putting up Christmas lights in Florida: 🥵

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DogFennel2025@reddit

Me, too. I was hoping to get some heavy yard work done, but instead I’m dragging the hose around trying to keep my shrubs alive.

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Comrade_Compadre@reddit

"oh God my peppers are dying from heat exhaustion and it's December" Yup

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artisanrox@reddit

After having a lifted SUV for years, I switched to a lower sedan. I thought at first "gosh, it's so low...what if the car is too low for the snow?" But then I thought "uhhh..I'm not so sure we're going to even HAVE that much snow from now on..." 💀🤷‍♂️

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worldnotworld@reddit

Warmest Christmas so far.

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blackcatparadise@reddit

Where I live, it’s been sunny and warm in the last 20+ years. This year however treated us with the coldest December in a very long time and nonstop rain. Kinda surprising considering I haven’t felt this cold in December since my teen years.

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Bellybutton_fluffjar@reddit (OP)

S.S. Casual Friday. Absolute respect for the weather reporters not having a full on ranty meltdown about climate change live on air. It's been 16°C and pissing down for the most of December in the UK, more chance of snow in hell.

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Artistic-Jello3986@reddit

I want to see meteorologists having full blown crash outs on live air, maybe then people will wake up.

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DogFennel2025@reddit

They can be fired if they are honest on air. Some if them probably have families to support. How awful to have to make that decision every day.

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jackierandomson@reddit

Too late to do anything now even if they did wake up. Besides, do you really want to know what would happen if they *did* wake up? Think of them all particularly mischievous and destructive toddlers. Let them sleep.

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Artistic-Jello3986@reddit

Too late to fix things, but if we could get realistic some mitigations will help future generations rebuild quicker… waiting until climate wakes us up sounds like an extinction level event

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Particular-Policy513@reddit

No its literally too late to stop extinction level events from occurring, if we go net zero today we will still hit 4C.

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MrPooooopyBum@reddit

Good, I think a new species deserves a crack at evolving intelligence; see what they do with it.

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intergalactictactoe@reddit

I live in New England, US, and we had a really nice snowstorm come through a couple weeks ago, with a couple lighter snows since. Everything was looking really pretty, like we were set to have a white xmas for once. Today, it is rainy and going to be almost 60F. Bye snow.

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Carbonatite@reddit

Most of my family is in Vermont and spending winter holidays up there has been one of the starkest illustrations of climate change I've personally experienced. My mom has a house at a ski resort and we would spend Christmas there. Watching the snow cover and temperatures change over the last 35 years has been so depressing.

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ideknem0ar@reddit

Lived in VT all my life (50) and it's been a fucking TRIP, I tell you.

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intergalactictactoe@reddit

I've only lived here a few years, but I've had conversations with some old timers that made it pretty clear how much things have changed in the past few decades. The sad part is that many of them still won't acknowledge climate change as a high-priority threat, even while they admit that their well goes dry every summer now, or that it doesn't snow like it used to, or whatever tangible symptom of climate change that happens to affect them personally right in the moment.

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cassanderer@reddit

Cold winter for many of us here.

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krisk1759@reddit

It is literally not winter yet.

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chrismetalrock@reddit

You're technically right and all but, *meteorological winter* is a fixed, three-month period used by meteorologists for consistent record-keeping, encompassing the coldest part of the year: December, January, and February.

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

The upper-atmosphere warming over the North Pole, which caused the cold in the northeast US was not reported on any of my local news stations (well, one is Sinclair and the other Allen, so yeah, those won't report anything except misinformation anyways). Seesaw weather here (Great Lakes, US) since the jet stream finally moved on - 10F below normal one day, 10F above normal the next. Christmas day will be 20F above normal, and the warmest since 1985 or so. Eighteen inches of snow (November 30 and December 5th or so) is about gone now, and we'll have a green (well, brown) Christmas. The three-month forecast here has us at a normal rest of the winter, but with a bit higher precipitation. And yet we're in a La Nina, when temps should be cooler...

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cassanderer@reddit

I am in michigan and it got 33 degrees in august, 30s and 40s for weeks in august and sept, then deep freeze and snow dump on thanksgiving. 15 degrees now, snowing. That is colder than normal, which was forecasted that I heard. Last year was hard too in a lot of snow sense, 120 inches just by march. Global weirding, it is not warmer neccessarily it is more volatile all around.

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Unlucky-Reporter-679@reddit

The 30 year average being warmer then the preceeding 30 year shows warming everywhere.

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cassanderer@reddit

The state of michigan has 0 percent average temp change actually. Cooler summers have balanced out freak warm ups in the winter, according to mlive several years back. Precipitation the same or higher generally too, around 36 a year.

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squailtaint@reddit

Actually same for where I live. I ran the numbers myself - we have not budged - I went back to 1980. Did the same analysis for anchorage alaska and there was a definite trend upwards (I don’t recall by how much). So while we hit extremes seemingly more frequently, the extreme highs have been balanced by the extreme lows, and our net average rise has been basically zero. I’m a nerd and engineer that likes to graph things sometimes - one day I was curious as to how much my local area had warmed.

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

My area has gone from hardiness zone 4b to 5b in about 30 years; that's a 10F increase in minimum lows. The last time we hit -20F (zone 5a/4b cusp) was in 2014, and that was the first time in many years. I grew up in Milwaukee, WI, where the zone is now 6a (from 4b). I know that in some cases, the lows I've been seeing for my childhood years are not the same as they actually were. I was ill a good part of January, 1977, and I KNOW that Milw hi -20 and lower for several nights at least during that time (father's car didn't start because it was too cold), yet the numbers from the NWS no longer show this. The Administration is cooking the data, I think. Yeah, this sounds crazy, but it sure seems that way. They did have last frost and first frost dates correct, though, when I checked a couple of months ago (and fun fact - first frost was as early as Sept 20 back in the 70s but has been well after Oct 15 in modern days). In my area, winter is most definitely more moderate than it was last century.

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cassanderer@reddit

Where are you at? The pacific nw should be pretty mild changes with the largest air conditioner in the world there, the ocean and how the mountains are set up blocking continental airflows. The ocean in wa is 50 degrees year round I think.

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

Are you a Yooper or in lower Michigan? I was in Door County WI in early Sept and yeah. it was much colder than normal (same as the last 2-3 weeks in August had been). A cold spell just like the recent cold spell in terms of relative severity and length. A week later, and it was August again, with a very warm October. Global weirding, indeed.

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cassanderer@reddit

Mid michigan, the up is always harsh they get a ton of snow. We got to -7 a week back or so, you guys were probably way worse in wi without the lake's moderating affect? Close enough to get some lake effect snow though and above the cold line down here where temps get significantly colder. Yeah after the cold in august and sept it got summer like in the 70s and 80s for weeks. But winter has not been this hard since like the 90s that I recall. Still early though.

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cottoncandymandy@reddit

Im in OK and it predicted to be 77 degrees on Xmas. 😭

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chrismetalrock@reddit

sounds nice

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Particular-Policy513@reddit

There isnt much reason to care, its been too late to do anything for decades now and since most people are religious there is no way to make change anyway, religious people cannot be compelled to care about reality because they dont live in it. Heres a ss from a local news report about how we arent getting any snowpack this year. https://preview.redd.it/zanahsufj88g1.png?width=1989&format=png&auto=webp&s=449cef4b73ba7ab8cbddf824ce945b763dd85d51

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littleking12@reddit

It's brutal cold in MN, seems normal to me

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yourfavoriteweeb@reddit

I legit thought I was gonna die this morning walking out to my car it was so cold

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Tired_Goddess_@reddit

You mean the coldest Christmas for the rest of our lives. All the people around me are all happy its nice and warm too... we are so cooked

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CursedFeanor@reddit

It'll be the warmest Christmas ~~ever~~ so far.

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Biolume_Eater@reddit

No chance, lol. It’s cold here and blizzarding. At least in Western Canada

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a_dance_with_fire@reddit

Depends where you are in western Canada. Am in BC, and it was only overnight we got a tad bit of snow and freezing temps. If recent trends hold, am not holding my breath for it to stay until Christmas as the last week felt more like spring then winter. Heck, coming over the coquihalla last Sunday evening and the temp didn’t even get down to 3C!! Virtually zero snow except at the snowshed and summit. Am sure that’s changed now with the recent snow, but is a far cry from what it used to be like several years ago (this would be more like late Oct / early Nov conditions)

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Biolume_Eater@reddit

I see yeah i live around Edmonton and there have been some bitterly cold winds and snow recently

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VinniPuh10@reddit

It already snowed several inches in the NYC tri-state area this week, so it's definitely possible that there could be a White Christmas this year. It's a rainy 55 degree day here today though.

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unseemly_turbidity@reddit

Denmark, and I've been sitting outside a bar for Christmas drinks without a coat on. I was warm enough in a light cotton jumper. Crazy.

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retrosenescent@reddit

Meteorology does not select for emotional personalities, it selects for analytical ones.

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aigeneratedname1234@reddit

It's going to be in the '70s maybe even eighties on Christmas here and I could not be happier. Way too many cold last freezing days on weekends lately. I'm off for the week and going fishing. Fuck a bunch of cold weather

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IndieStoner@reddit

You're getting downvoted for being flippant, but... I mean... we're fucked and there's nothing we can do about it lol so I'm glad you're enjoying it while it still has enjoyable effects.

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Bellybutton_fluffjar@reddit (OP)

I like the cold over Christmas though. Christmas Jumpers are way more fun than Christmas T-shirts.

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raven00x@reddit

Warmest Christmas yet* Ever is s long time and things don't suggest this is anywhere near the peak.

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Carbonatite@reddit

"Don't think of this year as the warmest on record, think of it as the coldest year for the next several centuries" - quote from one of my undergrad geology professors which lives in my head rent free almost 17 years later.

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prickly_avocado@reddit

There is a beloved weather man in Florida who has broke down a few times. I was stunned. (I dont live in Florida btw, I just watch "local news" from everywhere I can on u tube.)

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refusemouth@reddit

It used to snow here and stick around for a few months. Now, it snows and then immediately melts. What used to be winter is now just mud season.

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Contagious_Zombie@reddit

I don't know about it being the warmest Christmas ever. In fact it might be the coldest we will see going forward.

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IgniteThatShit@reddit

81°F today. What a wonderful world.

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megadumbbonehead@reddit

Please stop implying climate change leads to monotonically warming winters, it's extremely ignorant.

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Key_Pace_2496@reddit

Username checks out...

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justadiode@reddit

r/confidentlyincorrect

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WorldlyRevolution192@reddit

...did you forget the /s?

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megadumbbonehead@reddit

It's been a colder winter here than last year. I guess that means climate change doesn't exist.

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cool_waterz@reddit

Someone in power is fucking them. I'm very sorry, but this is what tends to happen. Tell me that they are independent scientists with means not related to any corporation or politician...

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SexyMonad@reddit

The same way porn asks me if I want to get laid, knowing the forecast for that.

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Physical_Opposite445@reddit

On the flip side, we'll never have a Christmas colder than this! /s

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WadeBronson@reddit

Its been below freezing every day in ohio this december spare maybe three days. I’m ok with it warming up

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WorldlyRevolution192@reddit

I just bought winter tires a few weeks ago too 🥲 Goodbye, hard earned slave wages!!

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pdxcranberry@reddit

My Jasmine has new growth my beardtongue has new blossoms. In December in the pacific northwest. They should be dormant.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Bellybutton_fluffjar: --- S.S. Casual Friday. Absolute respect for the weather reporters not having a full on ranty meltdown about climate change live on air. It's been 16°C and pissing down for the most of December in the UK, more chance of snow in hell. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1pqmaon/how_do_these_meteorologists_not_have_a_breakdown/nuv7prd/

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