#(there is an inch of snow on the ground)

[blueskittlesart]

CLASSES CANCELLED TOMORROW <3 <3 <3 I FUCKING LOVE MARYLAND'S PUSSY ASS REACTION TO SNOW I AM NEVER LEAVING THIS STATE

[neoncityrain]

sorry to bring this up again but i really really really really really really really want to know what tropical hell people live in where they think saints worldstate is considered an "ice age"

[disastercit]

haha what a silly cartoon episode. but nothing like that would ever happen to me in real life, right?

right?

there are seven inches of snow outside of my house right now.

[docholligay]

It is snowing to beat the band, big huge thick heavy flakes and boy am I not looking forward to driving in this, since our street doesn't get plowed ahah

[marzipanandminutiae]

i think it’s less that ppl are legit expecting a white christmas in boston every year and more that the probability for one used to be 20 to 30% and it’s now been almost 15 years without one and probability has dropped to 10% and will continue to drop. for someplace like worcester in massachusetts it’s even worse — probability was 67% ish for the boomers and now it’s a little over 30%. only 27 white christmases in boston since 1892 sounds small but when u consider most bostonians had 3 white christmases by their mid-teens on top of all the christmases where there was snow even if it wasn’t one inch and now there are teenagers who haven’t seen even one white christmas… it makes sense why ppl freak out every year it still hasn’t happened.

And that absolutely makes sense, yeah! I have immense climate anxiety too, like I said!

What I was responding to was more the people saying "it's 60 and raining in Boston and it feels like the apocalypse" or "this isn't how it's supposed to be ever; this never used to happen."

I don't know if you saw my longer post, but I went and looked at Boston weather records going back to 1893. Most Decembers from 1893-1903 had multiple days in the upper 50s, with many years getting into the 60s at least once. I didn't track every single year from 1893 to the present, but it seems reasonable to assume that that 10-year period wasn't just a weird fluke. December 1895 actually had more days in the 60s (5) than December 2022 (1).

That's not the full story, of course- December 1895 also had a couple of days in the 20s before that upswing, some with small amounts of snow. You also have things like overnight lows going haywire, and other reminders that climate change is real and it is happening now. I would never, ever attempt to deny that. It's the single biggest problem facing humanity at the moment.

However. There are multiple things to hold in our minds at the same time when thinking about its day-to-day effect on our lives, and one of them is "the effects are seldom as simple as It's Warmer Every Day Now Than It Ever Has Been, And That Will Continue Unilaterally For The Rest Of Our Lives." I'm not trying to deny or negate anything. I'm just trying to make people feel a little less despondent.

(I also just discovered that the metric for a white Christmas here in Boson states that it has to fall before 7 AM, which seems arbitrary and weird. We actually had a white Christmas here in 2017- we got 2.9" of snow -it just fell later in the day. So...it doesn't count for some reason? That's really strange to me. Anyway, the article where I learned this estimates our average yearly "one inch of snow on the ground at 7 AM on Christmas morning" chances nowadays at 19% as of three days ago.)

(I also think this demonstrates what I'm calling Reverse Environmental Amnesia- where, rather than thinking that the effects of climate change have always been normal, you tend to remember past weather in a way that fits the absolute direst interpretation of circumstances. Anyone who was in Boston on Christmas 2017 SHOULD remember the snowstorm...but I've seen multiple locals who don't travel for the holidays agreeing that we've had no Christmas snow at all since 2009.)

[125storejuice]

.

[cotl-betrayal-sacrifice]

Hello! It's me whiteserpent! I was curious if you were finally home or not? Since it's been roughly a week. In any case, hope we get to see Alexander saving the Bishops soon!

Just so everyboyd now knows I have arrived home, and am now working through the backlog of a week's worth of stuff i gotta catch up on

[cuntwrap--supreme]

Lol. Lmao even.

[preciousbabyrat]

it's the second day of christmas and I got snow after all, you know what that means... we can still shove each other into it and fall in love!??

[reggiemess]

Truck Guys in the winter who exclusively drive to Walmart and Chik-Fil-A:

[spacenintendogs]

called off work

[canongf]

it's so snowy and i'm so happy. smiling and giggling and sticking my cold hands and feet on eddie every chance i get

[harrys-thick-thighs]

Its literally 70 degrees rn 💀

[passerinesoncaffeine]

its raining outside guys. Guys. Hey. Its raining. There's rain. Falling from the sky. I'm gonna go make warm chai and watch the rain.

[lesbianlenas]

did you go outside and play in the snow?

there was only like an inch of snow lol it doesn’t snow that much in dc so when it does everyone freaks out immediately lmao…..i think they only closed bc it was supposed to still be snowing this morning until like 10am but there was not enough snow to play in not that i could like go on the sidewalk and play in the snow anyway 😭

[akascow]

"you like the snow?"

"yes"

"but you dont leave your house?"

"..."