385 sats \ 7 replies \ @quark OP 1 Apr \ on: World Sea and Air Temperature (how is it going 2024) charts
Apart from the scientific data, how is it going where you live in temperature terms? Are you noticing 2024 and 2023 being different? For me, it was very noticeable in February, with very warm days. But March was colder than usual.
The polar vortex inverted, and it making weather colder and more unstable. I'm still worried about this summer though. Do you think it will be a hotter summer than 2023? or colder?

Polar vortex is 'spinning backwards' above Arctic after major reversal event https://www.space.com/earth-polar-vortex-spinning-backwards-above-arctic-reversal-event

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197 sats \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury 1 Apr
Super screwed up; if childhood me had woke up into this year's winter / Spring he would have been deeply confused.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @0b1CoinObi 1 Apr
Does childhood you remember the weather when you were 2, 3, 4, 5. Most of our recollections are over a relatively recent timespan.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 1 Apr
For the time when I don't remember, the data tells the story.
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr 1 Apr
definitely a warmer winter than usual, we only had one or two days of snowfall all season (usually we get a dozen or so)
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217 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb 1 Apr
Yup. Same here. When my eight year old was two, we went sledding at least four or five times that winter (which means we had maybe twice as many good snowfalls as that). I didn't get to take my current two year old out sledding at all this winter. :( That was the moment it struck me how truly mild this particular winter was.
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62 sats \ 0 replies \ @quark OP 1 Apr
Yeah, same. I didn't see any day snowing this year. I know it snowed on the near mountains, but here it didn't snow at all. I remember big snowing weeks when I was a child.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 1 Apr
Through January, we had a very warm winter, but then February got quite cold and March was still pretty cool.
My expectation is that it will be a cooler summer than 2023. It looks to me like we're regressing towards the mean from a pretty enormous heat anomaly.
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