Really? You don't say... you think it is a "rapture like cult". Gosh... first I've heard of that.
Yup. The higher the population the more intertwined things become and the more dependent on our technology. This means that smaller triggers can cause bigger results. Just look at the housing collapse. We learned our lesson about the dangers of too much leverage in 1929, but then kept chipping away at the protections. And look at what happened to North America--Columbus brought the old world diseases, as they spread across the land many populations either dropped too small to be viable or lost all knowledge of some essential skill and perished. There are far, far more skills required to maintain civilization now, and in the times of old there was not the issue of institutional knowledge. A tanner of old could walk into a tannery and make it function. Could a grid operator walk into a city and blackstart it? No--they could not hope to figure it out fast enough to stave off catastrophe.
And as the map clearly shows, that is totally representative of the rest of the
It's not that it's hot, it's that it's a lot hotter. I'm in that deep red area on the map. Planting times are changed, growing seasons are changed, chilling times are changed (to the point that many people have removed their fruit trees), hiking seasons are changed to the point that even the mountain gets too hot on most days. And the lack of winter chill is a disneyland for the bugs--and if you use the only stuff that kills the borers the fruit is not supposed to be eaten that year. (Whether that's actually due to hazard or a lack of testing I do not know.)wtf, it's hot?!! In July?!! The apocalypse has arrived!!!111!!!!111
Oh wait, it's summer.
It is a catastrophic 73 degrees in Santa Monica today
We are only 9a here, not 10. No mangoes unless it gets much, much worse.
TSwizzle says the same thing over and over, a cult like mantra really. He is barely beating out a Turing Test.It's not that it's hot, it's that it's a lot hotter. I'm in that deep red area on the map. Planting times are changed, growing seasons are changed, chilling times are changed (to the point that many people have removed their fruit trees), hiking seasons are changed to the point that even the mountain gets too hot on most days. And the lack of winter chill is a disneyland for the bugs--and if you use the only stuff that kills the borers the fruit is not supposed to be eaten that year. (Whether that's actually due to hazard or a lack of testing I do not know.)wtf, it's hot?!! In July?!! The apocalypse has arrived!!!111!!!!111
Oh wait, it's summer.
It is a catastrophic 73 degrees in Santa Monica today
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Here in the east you really need to factor in the humidity too. The increase in heat content of a moist airmass that increases in temperature by two or three degrees is larger than that for a dry airmass. Our nominal temperature increase doesn't look as impressive in the humid subtropics but the warmer air is holding more water vapor so our average dewpoints have increased. Today it was 82F with a dewpoint of 77F when I went for my morning run at 5AM. That is just nasty. And our chance of rain is nil in spite of very high surface dewpoints because we are mashed under a very deep high pressure.
Beginning of August is looking to cool up a bit. August generally cools off, and then Sept/Oct heat back up.
We've jumped from 9B to Coconut Grove. The zone gradient is tight here and the warming pushed the zones right on up the coast. I keep waiting for the shoe to drop and a major cold kill take out our landscape. But it's like somebody flipped a switch in 1998 and our Brevard County climate got confused and became Broward. We've got tropical fruit and a lot of the tropical fish and lizards that used to be restricted to south Florida.
