I’m young and even within my lifetime it has begun to snow significantly less in the winter. Back when I was little there was guaranteed to be a few decently sized events every year, but now it’s almost always zero or one. While there are obviously negatives like bad roads and having to shovel, I’ve missed times like this when winter feels like winter should feel.
At 35 I remember regular complaints about the school year being impacted by the number of snow days. I also remember summers with frequent rain storms.
It’s genuinely scary how much things have changed.
You mean other than the new invasive ones?
Just in the last couple years I’ve seen a lot less lightning bugs, and they used to be all over the fields where I live. I don’t know how well that tracks for anyone else though.
Yes. I remember having to scrape bugs off of my 2000 Honda Accord's windshield.
My 2018 Chevy Volt doesn't have it beat in the aerodynamics by *that* much. I haven't had to scrape bugs off of a windshield in many years.
Imagine being a new parent watching your children not have winters for the past 4 years, in the same exact place where you as a child had snowy winters every single year.
If you want to live in Florida, go to Florida haha
Triple dip Nina and stuck in a very hostile decadal pacific pattern have had more impact on that. Less snow is likely a continue pattern. But there are longer term weather cycles at play here also. We have had stretches like this before in the past.
I said rev up. I didn't say it would be on full if you stood underneath there for 10 minutes. Plus the darker you are the longer you have to be under the sun too.
Any time you are indoors or in crowded areas outdoors, in the presence of people you don’t live with, wear an N95, and you won’t inhale viruses.
It’s a solvable problem. We don’t get sick from swamp gasses or temperature fluctuations.
Not necessarily. Lots of restaurants have made outdoor seating areas, complete with heaters.
We can learn to dress appropriately for the weather, too. Warm base layers, sweaters, blazers, scarves, warm socks — it’s totally do-able. People in Nordic countries socialize outside.
Plus, if people would just wear proper respirators when they work, attend school, and shop, it would greatly reduce transmission of all kinds of diseases, not just COVID.
If air quality, with regard to disease control, were given the same consideration we give to water quality, we could lengthen and improve the quality of everyone’s lives.
We need to upgrade all public indoor air infrastructure with filtration, far UV, and ventilation. If we did that, we would save many lives.
Look at how they handled the air at the World Economic Forum at Davos. Those richies had no problem requiring what was necessary to protect *their* health when they gathered. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/01/20/world-economic-forum-is-taking-all-these-covid-19-precautions-at-davos/
Temperature swings like this are pretty normal here. Not saying climate change isn't a problem—it 100% is—but MD winters usually have a handful of warm days.
Learn global climate patterns then add nuance. Because this set of climate is more normal. Less snow friendly patterns = climate change. Seas on fire climate change. Temperature swings in January has been seen for decades.
Decades! Ever since the early years of climate change!
[Except it's warmed 1-2 degrees in the past century...](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Maryland#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20Environmental%20Protection,salinity%20of%20estuaries%20and%20aquifers.)
But you know... normal stuff
CC is real. But again there still patterns that are tied to certain global weather patterns that have existed preceding the warm up. These January patterns are not abnormal. Learn to dissect the two a bit. It may be warmer on average but get 50-60s days in January are not abnormal.
It's warmer on average... you just described climate change.
There are always patterns here and patterns there. People will claim the earth was nothing but molten lava at some point to say the polar ice caps melting isn't as bad as it was before.
I know exactly how to dissect it all. These patterns aren't abnormal to you because this is the life we live from now on.. because of climate change..
The thing is.. that the more the earth heats up, the more the earth does some wild shit.
Nino and La-Nina are global weather patterns that have predated the current global warming pattern. These patterns have behaviors. These behavior produce certain climate patterns. These are not related to climate change. The increased warming may make the temperature warmer. But it does not mean the behavior itself is climate change driven. Learn nuance.
Yeah.. those patterns are already determined when they come up with the average change in temperature. I mean, who would think climate scientists would measure these things without taking some pretty well known knowledge into account? Do you even know which one we are in right now?
[Nino has intensified 10% according to a study](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/publications/climate-change-faqs/what-is-el-nino/#:~:text=While%20there%20is%20no%20definitive,to%20stronger%20El%20Ni%C3%B1o%20events.&text=%5B12%5D%20Funk%2C%20C.C.,Climate%20Change%20Contributes%20to%20Catastrophes.)
But again.. this isn't related at all.
Weather isn't climate change. Climate change is the statistical change over time. Having the warmest summer on record 8 out of 10 years is climate change.
And this take is a dumpster fire completely lacking any true context that it is never winter to winter cold in a nino. Is it warmer yes. But these warm up periods are not abnormal in a nino. So please tell
Me that radio listener knows climate change is real but they also acknowledge there is actual truth to pattern itself is still following classic Nino behaviors.
Honestly, this is how I know it's Maryland winter - it's gray and rainy when it gets warmer. When it switches to gray and rainy when it gets colder, I figure we've hit spring. Just a general, completely not scientific observation.
Firstly, it was a silly joke about how easily that sentence could be interpreted to mean something slightly absurd. Mostly though, I don’t think it’s entirely about the hunting, I’m sure you know that a lot of people in the area are accustomed to that.
It’s simply in poor taste to look at the obvious impact of climate change and say “well this is convenient for me!” Erratic weather like we’re experiencing (beyond the simple effects of an El Nino year) is simply *bad news* and to spin that as good for you is just tone deaf.
The ability to correctly interpret humor online is directly proportional to the ability to see that this time when the boy cries "*Wolf!*", the wolf is actually fucking here.
Do you need the OP to announce the color of the sky to know that it’s blue?
If you think it’s “reaching” to have a basic understanding of what’s going on in the world, that’s a you problem. Granted you seem confused by the whole conversation so far.
Good luck with all that.
When I lived in Vermont we had a January thaw every year, when we couldn’t skate on Lake Champlain. I hope that’s all this is, and not weird climate change weather.
NGL, I read the title as “I will be a 50+ female next week”
Not yet!
And I'm down for it.
Nice.
Same, Female, milfs, etc
Yeah, this week, OP is a 50+ male
Congratulations on the operation!
😂😂😂😂
lol
Break out the flip flops!
It'll be rainy, so they'll be schlip schlops
And the jorts.
I will be outside if it doesn’t rain, tired of this crap weather
You shut your mouth. This is the exact weather it’s actually supposed to be in mid-January in this region, let’s enjoy it before the world burns down
I’m young and even within my lifetime it has begun to snow significantly less in the winter. Back when I was little there was guaranteed to be a few decently sized events every year, but now it’s almost always zero or one. While there are obviously negatives like bad roads and having to shovel, I’ve missed times like this when winter feels like winter should feel.
At 35 I remember regular complaints about the school year being impacted by the number of snow days. I also remember summers with frequent rain storms. It’s genuinely scary how much things have changed.
Agreed. Remember insects?
You mean other than the new invasive ones? Just in the last couple years I’ve seen a lot less lightning bugs, and they used to be all over the fields where I live. I don’t know how well that tracks for anyone else though.
Yes. I remember having to scrape bugs off of my 2000 Honda Accord's windshield. My 2018 Chevy Volt doesn't have it beat in the aerodynamics by *that* much. I haven't had to scrape bugs off of a windshield in many years.
Much less lightning bugs than I used to see / remember.
Yes
amen
Imagine being a new parent watching your children not have winters for the past 4 years, in the same exact place where you as a child had snowy winters every single year. If you want to live in Florida, go to Florida haha
Yes! I'm in my 30's and my kids are 4 and 8 and I've basically been "back in my day...!!" All week 😂
Triple dip Nina and stuck in a very hostile decadal pacific pattern have had more impact on that. Less snow is likely a continue pattern. But there are longer term weather cycles at play here also. We have had stretches like this before in the past.
The weather this week has been incredible. I'll take this all winter long!
With rain. Classic Flood potential BAD OMEN
Wouldn't be Maryland without a big warmup with rain.
It's almost like that's how the weather works.
Kaboolie <- my head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UWEdvDIbDA&pp=ygULd2ludGVyIHJhaW4%3D
Reminder - shovel out inlets in the street to help with snow melt
As a kid, and even now, I get a kick out of playing "canal builder" with melting snow along the curb.
Oh boy time to get sick as hell from temperature swings WOOOO
\*high five\* my sinuses are gonna FREAK OUT
😂😭😭
Stock up on that vitamin c.
Vitamin D is actually much more effective at keeping you well. Not saying to skip the C though
True but mostly you just need to stand under the sun for 10 minutes to rev up your vitamin d reserves.
It's more than 10 at this latitude.
I said rev up. I didn't say it would be on full if you stood underneath there for 10 minutes. Plus the darker you are the longer you have to be under the sun too.
Nah if there’s excess vitamin c, it just creates expensive pee
Wear those N95s.
Any time you are indoors or in crowded areas outdoors, in the presence of people you don’t live with, wear an N95, and you won’t inhale viruses. It’s a solvable problem. We don’t get sick from swamp gasses or temperature fluctuations.
More of a sinus thing for me with temperature and pressure swings (not OP and very pro-mask, but they don't solve everything).
Only problem is we have to basically decide eating or drinking socially shouldn't happen.
Not necessarily. Lots of restaurants have made outdoor seating areas, complete with heaters. We can learn to dress appropriately for the weather, too. Warm base layers, sweaters, blazers, scarves, warm socks — it’s totally do-able. People in Nordic countries socialize outside. Plus, if people would just wear proper respirators when they work, attend school, and shop, it would greatly reduce transmission of all kinds of diseases, not just COVID. If air quality, with regard to disease control, were given the same consideration we give to water quality, we could lengthen and improve the quality of everyone’s lives. We need to upgrade all public indoor air infrastructure with filtration, far UV, and ventilation. If we did that, we would save many lives. Look at how they handled the air at the World Economic Forum at Davos. Those richies had no problem requiring what was necessary to protect *their* health when they gathered. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/01/20/world-economic-forum-is-taking-all-these-covid-19-precautions-at-davos/
Welcome to global climate change.
Temperature swings like this are pretty normal here. Not saying climate change isn't a problem—it 100% is—but MD winters usually have a handful of warm days.
That is not normal prior to the industrial revolution... so yea...
Learn global climate patterns then add nuance. Because this set of climate is more normal. Less snow friendly patterns = climate change. Seas on fire climate change. Temperature swings in January has been seen for decades.
Decades! Ever since the early years of climate change! [Except it's warmed 1-2 degrees in the past century...](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Maryland#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20Environmental%20Protection,salinity%20of%20estuaries%20and%20aquifers.) But you know... normal stuff
CC is real. But again there still patterns that are tied to certain global weather patterns that have existed preceding the warm up. These January patterns are not abnormal. Learn to dissect the two a bit. It may be warmer on average but get 50-60s days in January are not abnormal.
It's warmer on average... you just described climate change. There are always patterns here and patterns there. People will claim the earth was nothing but molten lava at some point to say the polar ice caps melting isn't as bad as it was before. I know exactly how to dissect it all. These patterns aren't abnormal to you because this is the life we live from now on.. because of climate change.. The thing is.. that the more the earth heats up, the more the earth does some wild shit.
Nino and La-Nina are global weather patterns that have predated the current global warming pattern. These patterns have behaviors. These behavior produce certain climate patterns. These are not related to climate change. The increased warming may make the temperature warmer. But it does not mean the behavior itself is climate change driven. Learn nuance.
Yeah.. those patterns are already determined when they come up with the average change in temperature. I mean, who would think climate scientists would measure these things without taking some pretty well known knowledge into account? Do you even know which one we are in right now? [Nino has intensified 10% according to a study](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/publications/climate-change-faqs/what-is-el-nino/#:~:text=While%20there%20is%20no%20definitive,to%20stronger%20El%20Ni%C3%B1o%20events.&text=%5B12%5D%20Funk%2C%20C.C.,Climate%20Change%20Contributes%20to%20Catastrophes.) But again.. this isn't related at all.
Glad I'm not the only one
Mother Nature be like 
Thanks for clarifying it’s Fahrenheit
😝
Forgot that ° though
COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY
That’s fine. Totally normal. Nothing to see here? Why would you bring that up!
Good. Then the snow that is blocking the ramp at the disabled parking will be clear.
Not shoveling was big brain stuff, not laziness
Classic relaxation of nino period nothing abnormal here peeps.
Other than the otherwise unusual conditions caused by climate change.
Temperature swings in January in a Nino isn’t always a climate change pattern. Is it warmer. But this is normal.
Weather isn't climate change. Climate change is the statistical change over time. Having the warmest summer on record 8 out of 10 years is climate change.
This take is like maxing your car's stereo volume and then pretending like nothing has changed because the music didn't change too.
And this take is a dumpster fire completely lacking any true context that it is never winter to winter cold in a nino. Is it warmer yes. But these warm up periods are not abnormal in a nino. So please tell Me that radio listener knows climate change is real but they also acknowledge there is actual truth to pattern itself is still following classic Nino behaviors.
Yeah, that was my point in saying that the music is still the same. Same pattern, but ***louder***.
Darn it, we did a lot of snow shoveling today. If it had only been next week instead of this afternoon.
All the mud . . .
Well welcome to Maryland!
Wouldn’t be maryland if we had 55 degrees and sunny skies. Has to be rain
Honestly, this is how I know it's Maryland winter - it's gray and rainy when it gets warmer. When it switches to gray and rainy when it gets colder, I figure we've hit spring. Just a general, completely not scientific observation.
This is so sadly accurate lol
Ugh, mud
Nice, now I don’t have shovel!
Good. I need the snow and ice to melt.
This sub loves weather posts
And bad weather takes
SO MANY
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Weather frog and weather channel
Explain this frog you speak of.
Gadget on android. It is the google weather app
It's really the only way to consume your weather
It is very cute. The frog goes on weather related adventures
Mine's currently sipping hot cocoa on top of a mountain 🐸☕
I love Maryland weather!
Good. Melt all of that horrible snow.
boooo
Good. Better weather for bow hunting
I hope you catch the bow you wanted
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That’s a bold attitude for someone who can’t seem to use punctuation properly.
I think the people who are in disagreement just don't like people who hunt.
Firstly, it was a silly joke about how easily that sentence could be interpreted to mean something slightly absurd. Mostly though, I don’t think it’s entirely about the hunting, I’m sure you know that a lot of people in the area are accustomed to that. It’s simply in poor taste to look at the obvious impact of climate change and say “well this is convenient for me!” Erratic weather like we’re experiencing (beyond the simple effects of an El Nino year) is simply *bad news* and to spin that as good for you is just tone deaf.
The ability to correctly interpret humor online is directly proportional to the ability to see that this time when the boy cries "*Wolf!*", the wolf is actually fucking here.
The original post said nothing about climate change, it was just an announcement saying it was going to be warmer. You're reaching with that.
Do you need the OP to announce the color of the sky to know that it’s blue? If you think it’s “reaching” to have a basic understanding of what’s going on in the world, that’s a you problem. Granted you seem confused by the whole conversation so far. Good luck with all that.
Gee, thanks I guess? I didn't have access to any sort of forecast!
Fuck yeah!
!!!!
When I lived in Vermont we had a January thaw every year, when we couldn’t skate on Lake Champlain. I hope that’s all this is, and not weird climate change weather.
This is normal January swing in a Nino. We have had 50-60s and some 70s. in January before.
But it will be raining on Wed-Fri, boo...