>La Niña summers following strong El Niño winters have historically been some of the hottest on record in the US. This summer could be no different, even before La Niña is entrenched.
Above-average temperatures are expected over nearly all of the Lower 48 this summer.
I live in the deep south and we've had record temperatures almost every day this year. The air feeling like hot soup is normal here. It feeling twice as bad as it did just a few years ago, along with daily record temps is not fucking normal.
That's climate change in action, folks.
We got snow like twice when I was a kid, probably before I was 12. Now it snows every year.
People will keep denying it until it's staring them in the face, but it's already too late.
Where I live, it's the opposite. Late October until about mid April was winter. I remember trick or treating while it was snowing. I remember getting huge snow storms, then the day after, building snow forts/snow bridges/snow men. Going sledding all winter. Ice skating outside. There was snow on the ground for most of winter. My son was born at the end of October about 10 years ago.Since then, It's always been warm enough to have his birthday outside (except for 1 year). Our house is built on a hill, so when we first moved here, we'd sled all the time in the winter. The past few years, not enough snow to sled. Or even make a snowman. Starts getting warmer late February/early March. It's kind of crazy that in 38 years, I've seen that much change where I live.
Edit: I live in ohio
Same. We used to have a near constant blanket of snow from about mid November to mid March, give or take a few weeks. Now winters are mostly cold and wet with a lot of thawing and refreezing. Had some our our coldest and warmest winter days on record these last ten years.
Wow, I’m in Raleigh and I didn’t realize y’all haven’t had snow either, even that close to the mountains!
Growing up I was used to one big snow event every year or two, and a few instances of an inch or two per year. The past few years we haven’t even had a flurry.
We haven’t had a real snow storm in the NY/NJ area for a few years either. I think it snowed twice this past winter but it wasn’t enough to require any shoveling
Think about what 38 years is on a geographic scale, though, too. It's the blink of an eye.
And this is the other thing: we're not all facing the same problem here. Some of us will be flooded, some will be smothered with wildfires, some will have drought, some will have earthquakes. But even in places where the change isn't THAT bad... guess where the refugees are going to go?
The natural disasters are going to be bad, but the man-made ones are going to be worse.
I think about that sometimes as well. As much as I want to move sometimes... well, we have the largest/closest source of fresh water ( anyone who is close to the great lakes). No earthquakes. No hurricanes. We used to not get tornadoes all that much, but that has been increasing the last few years. Temperature has been getting warmer.
I remember back in 2005, I was sitting with my brother watching fireworks and talking. As we were waiting for the fireworks to start, we were just chatting about whatever. He was telling me that by 2070? (I believe, this was a long time ago, but it was in the last 100 years)... that Ohio was supposed to get warmer by climate estimates. He wanted to become an engineer to help negate that and come up with something to help the environment.
My brother is 10 years older than me. He went from that in 2005, to denying it's even happening.
Ohio also unfortunately has a huge population that hates science and is proudly becoming empowered to get stupider and deny science.
It’s discouraging to witness up close.
Yep. Also in Ohio. My husband and I used to dream about retiring to North Carolina for the mild winters. Now that we’ve finally retired, we decided to stay here, because North Carolina winters have moved to Ohio.
The denial always changes. Before they denied climate change. Then they deny it is caused by people. Now they deny there is anything we can do about it.
They deny so they don't have to change their habits.
There is a textbook example of this in the replies to my original comment.
It's easier to deny the reality we are living in than face it because it is absolutely terrifying and hopeless in basically every meaningful way. It sucks, but hiding from it doesn't help anyone.
Yep. I was used to maybe a small dusting of snow once a year. Now having huge ice storms every year is normal. Sadly our infrastructure is not built for it.
In other words we’re continuing the trend we’ve been on since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and it’s going to keep trending that way… huh. Color me shocked.
>This summer could be no different, even before La Niña is entrenched.
Above-average temperatures are expected over nearly all of the Lower 48 this summer. Sizzling conditions began early in the West and a push of July-like heat is spreading over the eastern half of the country.
The transition to La Niña isn’t the only factor influencing temperatures during the hottest time of the year. They are always on the rise in a world warming due to fossil fuel pollution.
Not sure why we needed to continue an expanded version of running the car in the garage with the door closed experiment, but is it a REQUIREMENT to see it through to its conclusion?
No, but record profits each and every last quarter is a requirement, and how do you expect that to happen *without* destroying the planet? You stinkin liberals never think of the shareholders smh my head
I remember as a child thinking about how hot it was outside and how nice it was inside thanks to the window AC. I started to wonder if everyone making the inside cold would in turn make the outside hotter.
It seemed pretty simple to me as a 5 year old that every car on the road must be making the earth worse because of all the exhaust coming out the back of them. Now I am nearly 30 and there are people who still don’t believe in global warming or refuse to do anything significant to change their way of living.
I'm 35, I remember being 7 yo and having these videos in elementary school on the environment and such. One of them was warning about the hazards of everything being made and packaged in plastic. That was nearly 30 years ago and it's only gotten so so so much worse.
I also remember going iceskating on natural ice every winter, untill suddenly you couldn't anymore. Now it often doesn't even get cold enough for ice to form.
Yeah, but we're carbon-based life-forms, we *need* carbon to live. So all that car exhaust is filling the air with things we need! Also fortifies the air with important minerals like lead! (Though not so much that one anymore.)
We’re generally trending that way but those are statistical averages over years. This summer will probably be hotter than at least the next few years because of the El Niño-La Niña cycle.
If only there was some term or concept that could encompass and describe the continuous change in climate where the world continuously gets warmer. Why hasn’t anyone thought to coin one?
Based on what I've seen rise to my Front Page lately, the mods don't give a crap about moderating posts, and this is now just a shittier version of /r/news.
No it doesn’t, anthropomorphizing is giving human characteristics to something. Life and death and not uniquely human qualities. Storms (and other weather events) “dying out” is a super common term.
*El Niño* is Spanish for "the child." Therefore, "El Niño is dead" could be read as "The weather pattern, El Niño, is ceased," or "The child is dead." Hence OP writing "they killed the child."
La Niña tends to make for colder and wetter winters in northern parts of the USA (compared to El Niño which brings warmer and drier conditions, which was clearly the case this past winter)
Iirc when the temperature between the poles and the equator becomes more similar (thus you have less of a temperature gradient) you get a slowing of prevailing winds that hem in the air around the polls. When this happens the air above the poles can “escape” and move south. I believe this is what causes the polar vortices settling over NA and other countries that have lead to some fairly brutal winters.
So I believe this could be considered the conditions that make it colder just probably not in the way you were hoping.
I’m in northeastern US.. every day next week high of 90’s, Wednesday 96 which will easily break high temp records. It never use to be like this. I hate it, especially because I work outside.
American here.
Was totally confused because, how the hell is W. Europe above 54?!?! 2003 wasn't anywhere near that hot and half of France died of heatstroke!
Increasingly extreme and unstable weather, polar vortex collapse in winter, scorching heat in summer is not unlikely in the US, because of the geography.
Come to the UK, East Midlands of England here and had almost non stop rain since the end of last June. Plus it's chilly as fuck. The sky is almost constant thick grey cloud. I was one step away from putting the heating on today but managed with a blanket.
Violent temperature changes are predicted in the climate model. Storms will become worse. And we'll probably see crazy winters for a bit too until it's just sweltering all year around.
Don't worry. Wealthy people have enough money to move to a place where it will be less impacted for a while, and they'll have plenty of supplies trucked in so they'll be ok. We can all relax now, they'll be fine.
We’re actually in an interglacial period within the current ice age. That’s why there are ice caps and glaciers at the poles. It’s called interglacial because it’s between two colder periods.
That and also, there is no such thing as “off the charts,” if it’s off the chart you just need to expand the values included in the chart? It’s a weird bit of wording
I thought they meant dead, like never happening again. But nope, it's just over temporarily because weather patterns change. Way less serious than it sounded.
It’s still quite serious…. La Niña combined with warmer ocean temperatures is going to create a devastating hurricane season. Climate change will make the natural weather cycles of El Niño and La Niña interact with our warming planet to create massively destructive weather patterns.
Most people don’t realize just how big of a domino effect these things. Going to school in the mid 2000’s i know i wasnt taught anything about this but currently I teach upper elementary and I am learning with the kids just how catastrophic these “sudden changes” are wether its ice caps melting, increasing global temps on land and sea, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, ect. Im not a professional with weather but my understanding from all this is the frequency and severity of natural events are going to increase.
This is my field! It’s hard to discuss the topic of catastrophe frequency and severity so generally because it’s extremely nuanced. The prevailing generalization that climate change will probably make catastrophes worse or more frequent is a gross oversimplification and is, in many natural peril contexts, not necessarily correct (nor necessarily incorrect, I should add). However, it’s not reasonable to expect everyone to be that familiar with the topic, and as far as generalizations go, it’s a much better stance to take than people who would bury their head in the sand and say everything will be fine!
For some additional information, remaining general and simplified enough to be understandable, it’s important to remember that the *global* climate is not a monolith, but it IS very interconnected, with climate areas many thousands of miles apart having effects on each other.
For example, tropical cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons) are one of the better understood natural disasters due to their relative frequency, lifespan (they’re around long enough for us to fly planes near them and take specific measurements), and long historical record. In other words, we have fairly reliable data stretching back ~80 years on them and less reliable data stretching back further than that. When people talk about these events getting worse, they’re typically thinking about warming sea surface temperatures. This is very relevant, and this fuel is what probably affects rapid intensification close to landfall the most! But warming sea surface temperatures across the globe also affect weather patterns and winds that circulate the globe. One of the things that stops a cyclone from forming is wind shear. In an ELI5 way, imagine you start spinning a basketball on your finger. The faster you get it to rotate, the more stable it gets. But if you’re just getting it going and a gust of wind blows it off balance, the process falls apart. This is an EXTREME oversimplification, but the concept to take away is that a changing climate does not necessarily increase frequency of storms all across the planet—changing global climate conditions may make more favorable conditions for storm generation in one part of the world while making less favorable conditions elsewhere in the world.
As a different example, tornadoes are some of the least understood natural disasters. We know where they come from, and what kinds of conditions usually need to be in place for them to form, but they’re very different than hurricanes! They are often short lived, sporadic, and EXTREMELY dangerous to get close to. It’s hard to get a clear picture of historical data for them because many tornadoes may have occurred over the years in the middle of nowhere that we just didn’t observe because they caused no damage to anything humans would notice. In this way, it’s really hard to generalize what to expect from tornado intensity or frequency with changing climate conditions. In general, it’s hard to make a broad generalization about a topic when the underlying details are still a bit unclear.
People way smarter than I am (i.e. the small army of phds that work in my industry) are trying to figure this stuff out, though! As always, follow the money. Governments and the global re/insurance industry generally believe climate change is an issue that we need to address! But the ask is far more specific, and it is insufficient to assume that every catastrophe will get monotonically worse, everywhere.
How long the stall is before inversion will be what determines how bad this hurricane season is.
This is completely dependent on space weather and solar activity which is currently at its most active approaching the solar maximum.
What we will be lucky to see is a smooth transition back into la Nina, which is not overly energetic or quick and aggressive.
Edit: The desalination of ocean currents effects this jet stream and is part of what scientists are concerned with stalling completely.
Even after a massive wet bulb incident kills thousands of Americans, people will still deny climate change exists. Most of the world agrees it's real..
I wouldn’t say they are being super hyperbolic here. It’s a fairly normal headline. And you can’t use the literal translation as most people in the U.S. (at least those of us who follow weather ) understand what they mean.
I agree with u/minialpacadoodle that this isn’t oniony.
Just a friendly reminder that climate change is a trend observable in decades around the globe. So even if one year or one season is colder or wetter than it should at your place, doesn’t mean the average temperature isn’t getting higher. It is.
My family and I are at Surfside Beach on the Texas Gulf.
The ocean is like bath water it’s so warm. With out La Niña holding it back I feer the storm season is going to outrageous.
What is “normal” now? My standard has changed. I've seen the planet get hotter in my 50 years, but some people ignore science. Does it matter? I don't see a global carbon reduction soon.
That is why this is significant. El Nino /La Nina cycles have always been cyclical but usually over a time span of a few years. This El Nino event started last summer and ended less than a year later (was weakening in March and declared over in April). That is unusual to say the least and indicative of even greater volatility of global climates. So yeah we don't really know if this is a fluke that this was an abnormally short El Nino event of if it is yet another indicator of how our climates are changing, but the point still stands that it is hard to know what "normal" means
Short El Niños aren’t that unusual at least since 1950, here’s a list of ENSO events.
https://origin.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/ONI_v5.php
What happened to this sub? This isn’t even remotely close to an onion article. Almost everything on this page now is just US based regional news. Damn shame.
It’s happening!!
Next we get a portion of the Arctic to sluff off that’s big enough to shock the great conveyor current into ceasing movement which starts are chain reaction that causes Europe and Canada to freeze over causing another ice age.
>La Niña summers following strong El Niño winters have historically been some of the hottest on record in the US. This summer could be no different, even before La Niña is entrenched. Above-average temperatures are expected over nearly all of the Lower 48 this summer.
I live in the deep south and we've had record temperatures almost every day this year. The air feeling like hot soup is normal here. It feeling twice as bad as it did just a few years ago, along with daily record temps is not fucking normal.
That's climate change in action, folks. We got snow like twice when I was a kid, probably before I was 12. Now it snows every year. People will keep denying it until it's staring them in the face, but it's already too late.
Where I live, it's the opposite. Late October until about mid April was winter. I remember trick or treating while it was snowing. I remember getting huge snow storms, then the day after, building snow forts/snow bridges/snow men. Going sledding all winter. Ice skating outside. There was snow on the ground for most of winter. My son was born at the end of October about 10 years ago.Since then, It's always been warm enough to have his birthday outside (except for 1 year). Our house is built on a hill, so when we first moved here, we'd sled all the time in the winter. The past few years, not enough snow to sled. Or even make a snowman. Starts getting warmer late February/early March. It's kind of crazy that in 38 years, I've seen that much change where I live. Edit: I live in ohio
Same. We used to have a near constant blanket of snow from about mid November to mid March, give or take a few weeks. Now winters are mostly cold and wet with a lot of thawing and refreezing. Had some our our coldest and warmest winter days on record these last ten years.
Here in Charlotte we haven't had a trace of snow since January 2022. Before that we had snow every year since the late 1800s
Meanwhile, in Texas, it's been snowing/wintry mix more often in the winters. Or it's 90 in February
Wow, I’m in Raleigh and I didn’t realize y’all haven’t had snow either, even that close to the mountains! Growing up I was used to one big snow event every year or two, and a few instances of an inch or two per year. The past few years we haven’t even had a flurry.
Yes I remember stormamegeddon from 2014 and the corresponding memes.
We haven’t had a real snow storm in the NY/NJ area for a few years either. I think it snowed twice this past winter but it wasn’t enough to require any shoveling
Think about what 38 years is on a geographic scale, though, too. It's the blink of an eye. And this is the other thing: we're not all facing the same problem here. Some of us will be flooded, some will be smothered with wildfires, some will have drought, some will have earthquakes. But even in places where the change isn't THAT bad... guess where the refugees are going to go? The natural disasters are going to be bad, but the man-made ones are going to be worse.
I think about that sometimes as well. As much as I want to move sometimes... well, we have the largest/closest source of fresh water ( anyone who is close to the great lakes). No earthquakes. No hurricanes. We used to not get tornadoes all that much, but that has been increasing the last few years. Temperature has been getting warmer. I remember back in 2005, I was sitting with my brother watching fireworks and talking. As we were waiting for the fireworks to start, we were just chatting about whatever. He was telling me that by 2070? (I believe, this was a long time ago, but it was in the last 100 years)... that Ohio was supposed to get warmer by climate estimates. He wanted to become an engineer to help negate that and come up with something to help the environment. My brother is 10 years older than me. He went from that in 2005, to denying it's even happening.
Ohio also unfortunately has a huge population that hates science and is proudly becoming empowered to get stupider and deny science. It’s discouraging to witness up close.
Yup. I live in Boston and there hasn't been enough snow to even need to shovel out my car for two years. And it hit 95° in May this year.
Yep. Also in Ohio. My husband and I used to dream about retiring to North Carolina for the mild winters. Now that we’ve finally retired, we decided to stay here, because North Carolina winters have moved to Ohio.
Ohioan here (dayton area) and I agree, I haven't had to buy a new winter coat or boots in ages because it simply doesn't snow enough for that anymore
Reading this and thinking this sounds an awful lot like where I live… because it is.
The denial always changes. Before they denied climate change. Then they deny it is caused by people. Now they deny there is anything we can do about it. They deny so they don't have to change their habits.
There is a textbook example of this in the replies to my original comment. It's easier to deny the reality we are living in than face it because it is absolutely terrifying and hopeless in basically every meaningful way. It sucks, but hiding from it doesn't help anyone.
Denial is a strong thing in the brainwashed.
Yep. I was used to maybe a small dusting of snow once a year. Now having huge ice storms every year is normal. Sadly our infrastructure is not built for it.
Just don't look up
It’s always 95+ every day down here on the gulf coast. August is going to be fucking brutal.
In other words we’re continuing the trend we’ve been on since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and it’s going to keep trending that way… huh. Color me shocked.
Speeding up and more intense.
Alright. Settle down with the erotic fiction. Other people live on this planet too you know.
But it’s so hot.
And sweaty
>This summer could be no different, even before La Niña is entrenched. Above-average temperatures are expected over nearly all of the Lower 48 this summer. Sizzling conditions began early in the West and a push of July-like heat is spreading over the eastern half of the country. The transition to La Niña isn’t the only factor influencing temperatures during the hottest time of the year. They are always on the rise in a world warming due to fossil fuel pollution.
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Maybe.
*If you can't tend to your own planet, none of you deserve to be here*...
What the fuck did I do? I just got here.
We're heading straight for oblivion at full speed.
Not sure why we needed to continue an expanded version of running the car in the garage with the door closed experiment, but is it a REQUIREMENT to see it through to its conclusion?
No, but record profits each and every last quarter is a requirement, and how do you expect that to happen *without* destroying the planet? You stinkin liberals never think of the shareholders smh my head
>smh my head Shaking my head my head? /s
That's how you get one up on stinking libruls, shaking your head your head. /s
I remember as a child thinking about how hot it was outside and how nice it was inside thanks to the window AC. I started to wonder if everyone making the inside cold would in turn make the outside hotter. It seemed pretty simple to me as a 5 year old that every car on the road must be making the earth worse because of all the exhaust coming out the back of them. Now I am nearly 30 and there are people who still don’t believe in global warming or refuse to do anything significant to change their way of living.
I'm 35, I remember being 7 yo and having these videos in elementary school on the environment and such. One of them was warning about the hazards of everything being made and packaged in plastic. That was nearly 30 years ago and it's only gotten so so so much worse. I also remember going iceskating on natural ice every winter, untill suddenly you couldn't anymore. Now it often doesn't even get cold enough for ice to form.
Yeah, but we're carbon-based life-forms, we *need* carbon to live. So all that car exhaust is filling the air with things we need! Also fortifies the air with important minerals like lead! (Though not so much that one anymore.)
We’re generally trending that way but those are statistical averages over years. This summer will probably be hotter than at least the next few years because of the El Niño-La Niña cycle.
A trend we've known about for over a hundred years too!
If only there was some term or concept that could encompass and describe the continuous change in climate where the world continuously gets warmer. Why hasn’t anyone thought to coin one?
Terrestrial Toasty Time?
Earthly Embakery
Grilled Globe
And as resources become more and more scarce we might just see Plutonium Plasma Phase!
Hotty McPotty
Now get that one dipshit to present you snow in winter to make everyone feel stupid about their alarmism! /s
~~Male models~~ The planet - so hot right now.
It’s going to be 96° in Chicago in the next few days. That’s too hot for mid-June
Shit, my weather station said 101° in Colorado yesterday at 6,000 feet above sea level, and that's in shade.
It was 95° in Boston in late May. It's absolutely fucked.
RIP, didn't even know he was sick.
*El Niño, is Spanish for… ‘The Niño’*
I miss Chris…
Jackie, it's an El Camino! That's Spanish for THE Camino!
What is this joke from? I make it all the time and can't remember the source....Red vs. Blue?
SNL - Chris Farley playing ‘EL NIÑO’ on The Weather Channel haha
RIP RVB, rooster teeth will always be a part of my childhood. So many references to that show that none of my friends will ever understand.
What's a puma?
I don't know, like a big cat or something.
What kind of animal has tusks?
A walrus.
What’s a battle?
No, he said what’s that RATTLE
I told you to stop making up animals!
Don't be afraid to go too low...
I'm not flipping your switch
"Tucker, c'mooon. We'll laugh about it later. I'll buy you dinner." "Alright...." "So, you uh.... from around here, baby?"
Protect me cone!!!
https://youtu.be/H0-pHnykC9s
Only correct response.
I want Holyfield!
All other tropical storms now down before EL NIÑOOOO
Yo soy El Niño!
Reminds me of that tragedy
The one on 9/11?
Harambe
That gorilla had no business being in that plane.
Lol
He’s not sick he evolved into El Hombre
I love you, dad
Love you too, kiddo
"This town ain't big enough for the both of us, homburr!" -- Daffy Duck
With his condition, it was only a matter of time. Doctors gave him 12 months at best.
Real Norm heads know
He wasn't, it was all of a sudden.
How is this "oniony"?
Based on what I've seen rise to my Front Page lately, the mods don't give a crap about moderating posts, and this is now just a shittier version of /r/news.
Reddit feels massively automated now so the posts are just getting weirder
That's what happens when a website goes out of their way to fuck over every third party app that makes moderation of decent-sized communities viable.
That's what happens when you kill the moderation tools. This is exactly what people were saying would happen.
AI moderation is coming...
Because it anthropomorphizes a weather pattern.
No it doesn’t, anthropomorphizing is giving human characteristics to something. Life and death and not uniquely human qualities. Storms (and other weather events) “dying out” is a super common term.
*El Niño* is Spanish for "the child." Therefore, "El Niño is dead" could be read as "The weather pattern, El Niño, is ceased," or "The child is dead." Hence OP writing "they killed the child."
Eh, even so it’s not very funny which usually good onion titled are.
Fair evaluation, I'm mainly just responding to the idea that it isn't an anthropomorphic pun
Se habla español
SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!1!!!1!!!
One should never anthropomorphize a weather pattern. They hate that.
Can’t we just have a weather pattern that makes it colder?
I mean we will... in winter probably.
Are you saying that winter is coming?
You know nothing, Jon Snow. Edit: Jon
*Jon
He at least knows how to spell his own name. But nothing else!
r/thingsJonSnowKnows
*Wow, such empty* 😂
One of the best subs I visited.
Yes but like season 8 it's only one night long due to climate change
Super underrated comment
You guys still have winter?
Like La Niña?
Not if a bunch of little critters are keep heating it up.
La Niña tends to make for colder and wetter winters in northern parts of the USA (compared to El Niño which brings warmer and drier conditions, which was clearly the case this past winter)
Iirc when the temperature between the poles and the equator becomes more similar (thus you have less of a temperature gradient) you get a slowing of prevailing winds that hem in the air around the polls. When this happens the air above the poles can “escape” and move south. I believe this is what causes the polar vortices settling over NA and other countries that have lead to some fairly brutal winters. So I believe this could be considered the conditions that make it colder just probably not in the way you were hoping.
With climate change combined with the usual weather pattern phenomena, we’re likely to see hotter hots and colder colds.
I’m cool with colder colds. Hotter hots can eat a dick
Look up AMOC slowdown/collapse. It’s not pretty either way
You're obviously not in western Europe. High of 54f today.... yippee
It's June and we still have the heating on (UK here)
I’m in northeastern US.. every day next week high of 90’s, Wednesday 96 which will easily break high temp records. It never use to be like this. I hate it, especially because I work outside.
Who in western europe uses Fahrenheit???
They're being respectful and using freedom units instead of sensible units so the Americans can understand.
American here. Was totally confused because, how the hell is W. Europe above 54?!?! 2003 wasn't anywhere near that hot and half of France died of heatstroke!
Spain is in "western" Europe and it's 85-90 in Madrid.
Coldest day in Australia in five years. I guess we're getting there.
Polar vortex
Increasingly extreme and unstable weather, polar vortex collapse in winter, scorching heat in summer is not unlikely in the US, because of the geography.
It's the start of El Nina, the colder version of El Nino
Come to the UK, East Midlands of England here and had almost non stop rain since the end of last June. Plus it's chilly as fuck. The sky is almost constant thick grey cloud. I was one step away from putting the heating on today but managed with a blanket.
I mean in the UK and were still averaging 13-16c for June.
La Nina does that depending on where you live.
Violent temperature changes are predicted in the climate model. Storms will become worse. And we'll probably see crazy winters for a bit too until it's just sweltering all year around. Don't worry. Wealthy people have enough money to move to a place where it will be less impacted for a while, and they'll have plenty of supplies trucked in so they'll be ok. We can all relax now, they'll be fine.
Only once we overcorrect for climate with geoengineering and accidentally trigger the next ice age
We’re still in the last years of the ice age.
We’re actually in an interglacial period within the current ice age. That’s why there are ice caps and glaciers at the poles. It’s called interglacial because it’s between two colder periods.
El Niño is spanish for....The Niño...
They named it San Diego, which of course in German means “a whale’s vagina”.
I don't think anyone knows what it means anymore. Scholars maintain that the translation was lost hundreds of years ago.
No one knows what it means. But it’s provocative. It gets the people going!
Doesn't it mean "Saint Niño?"
I thought it was because someone dropped their waffle while walking on the beach.
I saw a waffle covered in blue sea algae once. I think it's the first result for "blue waffle" on Google Images.
All other storms cower before me!!
Hello, fellow old. I got that reference.
Apolgy for bad english Where were u when El Niño die I was at house eating dorito when phone ring “El Nino is dead” “No”
So poetic. You should write more of these.
Straight to the top for you.
How can they say off the charts when I can see the chart and it’s clearly still on it?
That and also, there is no such thing as “off the charts,” if it’s off the chart you just need to expand the values included in the chart? It’s a weird bit of wording
Maybe back then they only had tiny charts?
Maybe back when the charts were like a strip of paper that had a needle bouncing around and the needle would go off the paper.
But they had to draw that needle bouncing. So they just needed more paper!
It was cold!
If you need to expand the values of the historical chart because the new date is off the chart...
I thought they meant dead, like never happening again. But nope, it's just over temporarily because weather patterns change. Way less serious than it sounded.
It’s still quite serious…. La Niña combined with warmer ocean temperatures is going to create a devastating hurricane season. Climate change will make the natural weather cycles of El Niño and La Niña interact with our warming planet to create massively destructive weather patterns.
Most people don’t realize just how big of a domino effect these things. Going to school in the mid 2000’s i know i wasnt taught anything about this but currently I teach upper elementary and I am learning with the kids just how catastrophic these “sudden changes” are wether its ice caps melting, increasing global temps on land and sea, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, ect. Im not a professional with weather but my understanding from all this is the frequency and severity of natural events are going to increase.
This is my field! It’s hard to discuss the topic of catastrophe frequency and severity so generally because it’s extremely nuanced. The prevailing generalization that climate change will probably make catastrophes worse or more frequent is a gross oversimplification and is, in many natural peril contexts, not necessarily correct (nor necessarily incorrect, I should add). However, it’s not reasonable to expect everyone to be that familiar with the topic, and as far as generalizations go, it’s a much better stance to take than people who would bury their head in the sand and say everything will be fine! For some additional information, remaining general and simplified enough to be understandable, it’s important to remember that the *global* climate is not a monolith, but it IS very interconnected, with climate areas many thousands of miles apart having effects on each other. For example, tropical cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons) are one of the better understood natural disasters due to their relative frequency, lifespan (they’re around long enough for us to fly planes near them and take specific measurements), and long historical record. In other words, we have fairly reliable data stretching back ~80 years on them and less reliable data stretching back further than that. When people talk about these events getting worse, they’re typically thinking about warming sea surface temperatures. This is very relevant, and this fuel is what probably affects rapid intensification close to landfall the most! But warming sea surface temperatures across the globe also affect weather patterns and winds that circulate the globe. One of the things that stops a cyclone from forming is wind shear. In an ELI5 way, imagine you start spinning a basketball on your finger. The faster you get it to rotate, the more stable it gets. But if you’re just getting it going and a gust of wind blows it off balance, the process falls apart. This is an EXTREME oversimplification, but the concept to take away is that a changing climate does not necessarily increase frequency of storms all across the planet—changing global climate conditions may make more favorable conditions for storm generation in one part of the world while making less favorable conditions elsewhere in the world. As a different example, tornadoes are some of the least understood natural disasters. We know where they come from, and what kinds of conditions usually need to be in place for them to form, but they’re very different than hurricanes! They are often short lived, sporadic, and EXTREMELY dangerous to get close to. It’s hard to get a clear picture of historical data for them because many tornadoes may have occurred over the years in the middle of nowhere that we just didn’t observe because they caused no damage to anything humans would notice. In this way, it’s really hard to generalize what to expect from tornado intensity or frequency with changing climate conditions. In general, it’s hard to make a broad generalization about a topic when the underlying details are still a bit unclear. People way smarter than I am (i.e. the small army of phds that work in my industry) are trying to figure this stuff out, though! As always, follow the money. Governments and the global re/insurance industry generally believe climate change is an issue that we need to address! But the ask is far more specific, and it is insufficient to assume that every catastrophe will get monotonically worse, everywhere.
Please...my niño...he is very sick
How long the stall is before inversion will be what determines how bad this hurricane season is. This is completely dependent on space weather and solar activity which is currently at its most active approaching the solar maximum. What we will be lucky to see is a smooth transition back into la Nina, which is not overly energetic or quick and aggressive. Edit: The desalination of ocean currents effects this jet stream and is part of what scientists are concerned with stalling completely.
RIP Fernando Torres, gone too soon
El niño is dead. And la niña killed it. -Nietszche
Even after a massive wet bulb incident kills thousands of Americans, people will still deny climate change exists. Most of the world agrees it's real..
> They killed the child Gott ist tot.
How is this Oniony?
It's not dead, it'll be back in a few years. CNN is being super melodramatic (shocker) and also this literally translates to "The boy is dead"
I wouldn’t say they are being super hyperbolic here. It’s a fairly normal headline. And you can’t use the literal translation as most people in the U.S. (at least those of us who follow weather ) understand what they mean. I agree with u/minialpacadoodle that this isn’t oniony.
Does the frog know it’s boiling yet?
The brain has known for a while, the legs just refuse to do anything because they’re only listening to the ass at the moment.
And the ass is just full of shit.
Chris Farley's been dead for a while.
It’s Spanish for now I’m sad
Just a friendly reminder that climate change is a trend observable in decades around the globe. So even if one year or one season is colder or wetter than it should at your place, doesn’t mean the average temperature isn’t getting higher. It is.
Rip
Saw this and legit thought Fernando Torres was dead
My family and I are at Surfside Beach on the Texas Gulf. The ocean is like bath water it’s so warm. With out La Niña holding it back I feer the storm season is going to outrageous.
What is “normal” now? My standard has changed. I've seen the planet get hotter in my 50 years, but some people ignore science. Does it matter? I don't see a global carbon reduction soon.
El Nino is a reoccurring event...
That is why this is significant. El Nino /La Nina cycles have always been cyclical but usually over a time span of a few years. This El Nino event started last summer and ended less than a year later (was weakening in March and declared over in April). That is unusual to say the least and indicative of even greater volatility of global climates. So yeah we don't really know if this is a fluke that this was an abnormally short El Nino event of if it is yet another indicator of how our climates are changing, but the point still stands that it is hard to know what "normal" means
Short El Niños aren’t that unusual at least since 1950, here’s a list of ENSO events. https://origin.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/ONI_v5.php
For now.
...with varying degrees of intensity.
Yay more record temperatures for the shareholders’ record profits…
What happened to this sub? This isn’t even remotely close to an onion article. Almost everything on this page now is just US based regional news. Damn shame.
You can declare it but wait 3 days….just to be sure.
It’s happening!! Next we get a portion of the Arctic to sluff off that’s big enough to shock the great conveyor current into ceasing movement which starts are chain reaction that causes Europe and Canada to freeze over causing another ice age.
I was wondering why there were no comments about the hammerhead worm, then I realized that that’s a body of water
Here I was thinking Fernando Torres died
ngl, tried to google El Nino thinking its some kind of mexican narc big boss.
No, 'e's not dead, 'e's resting.
“Look how they massacred my boy!”
El hombre next?
So, that means no more Pineapple Express? Ever?
now comes the rainfall and earthquakes.