How Much Warmer Was Your City in 2015? (myth, propaganda, community)
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some people have nothing better to do than spend hours looking up charts and stats; how exciting is that?
Not very, but better than burying your head in the sand. Earth is the only home we have, and I believe it's prudent to be aware of what is happening to it.
I believe it is the average temperature of the 20th century.
Actually, it was the average temperature from 1981 to 2010. But I wasn't asking what their definition of normal was. I was asking more broadly, what exactly is a normal temperature anyway?
Its much colder than the last 5 years... not warmer, where I live...
Same here in SoCal. We have another storm coming in tonight and, hopefully, this Winter might be the drought buster.
Drought Monitor
While 43% of the state remains in extreme-to-exceptional drought, important changes have occurred in the northwestern parts of California as of November 1, 2016. Areas affected by moderate-to-severe drought conditions have declined from 41% to 32% of the state over the past month. About 12% of the state is now identified as drought-free, namely Del Norte, Humboldt, Siskiyou, and most of Trinity and Shasta counties.
No, in fact, we've been enjoying a "warm cycle' over the last 250 years. The tilt of the earth changes, the heat of the sun changes, and the pendulum will swing back to cold just as it has thousands of times.
For the past 17 years I've worked in a hospital boiler room. We have a thermometer on the roof in the shade. We take temperature readings twice a shift, three shifts per day. We've had very cold spells and very hot spells but nothing that stands out as a definitive trend.
Average for my city. Some higher temps, some lower temps. Its been a dry fall, though. The lack of hurricanes has had an impact on replenishing regional aquifers.
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