Watched the weather report today.

[conuly]

Today's temperatures: Started below 20, "feels like" in the single digits. But not to worry, within a week we should be in the 50s!

And they just said that, with no commentary, like it's not absolutely bizarre to go from 19F - 56F within a single week in December.

And it's not just the high temperatures that are bizarre, the low ones are too. I can't speak to the decades before 1990, I guess, but NYC weather used to be temperate - we got more snow, but that's because the winter temperatures were in the snow range - close to the freezing point, not so warm it melted, not so cold that it just didn't happen.

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[redbird]

The winter before I moved here, Boston got a lot more snow than usual, and much larger piles of accumulated snow, because there were weeks on end of that sort of temperature.

When we moved here, I was saying that I could cope with the weather, because it's what I'd grown up with: Boston weather in the 2010s was much like New York City's in the 1970s. I don't exactly miss the cold, but the pace of climate change is scary, and very noticeable in the colder half of the year.

[sallymn]

Weather at the minute is ridiculous worldwide :(

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here in central Illinois, it was -8F last night and supposed to rain in a few days. Last year it rained on Christmas which was just depressing.

We've gone from Zone 5b when I was little to 6a and now on the border of 6b. This is NOT NORMAL.

Huh! Adjust for Texas by 10 degrees warmer

[disgruntledgirl]

Been 30's most of this morning nd we're due to hit 60s near the end of the week. No commentary here as that's the way Texas always is. Only California has us beat in weird temp spikes.
However, my condolences on your sinuses for having to go through that pressure roller coaster.
I once made a Dune related joke: "Know a Texan by their runny nose..."

[archersangel]

weather is weird these days.

[chasing_silver]

I don't find it bizarre if you look at why it's happening. The jet stream is weakening and in the next 20-40 years, will disappear altogether. The polar air held in Canada is now seeping downwards, causing the low lows. When the air moves out, natural climate change-related warming warms the temps back up to unseasonable highs. As the Arctic ice melts, we'll see less cold air and all-around warmer air, which in essence, means we're fucked.

[watervole]

Our winter weather is mostly endless rain these days.

It's far warmer than it should be for this time of year - the grass needs cutting (In December!) but it's too wet for us to do it.

Far too many plants are still in flower, and floods are the new winter norm.

But no one seems willing to take any action.

I gave up flying 20 years ago when I realised what the carbon footprint was, will never take a cruise holiday (three times worse than flying the same distance...) and have given up red meat for climate reasons.

I know others doing the same, but as long as governments fail to place short-term economic growth ahead of preventing total economic disaster for our children, it's a very hard world to live in...