IronTy

Mid-50s and rain incoming!!

Yeah I think I had three coats on when I was sitting out there. My hands are still frozen though.

Due to my situation, I guess, I spend a lot of time in my own head philosophizing about our (Earth's) place in the universe and humanity's position in it all. I have strong ideas about the industrial age and humanity's future but they probably wade into treacherous waters on the forum so I can't expand too much on it. I have a large print of Pale Blue Dot hung in my home office and whenever I need some grounding or humbling I stare at it for about ten minutes. Really puts things in perspective.

Lmao, I've been on this forum for years and I don't think I've ever ventured out of the regional discussion sub-section. I just discovered a whole new part of the forum!

I totally agree with you, if we could just separate out the *cause* of it from the fact that it is actually happening and always has happened and always will happen that would be great. But alas politics always inserts itself as it's been so weaponized.

We're at the city house this weekend and my wife is having one of her power-broker ladies meet-ups at our house. I'm hopelessly outnumbered and outclassed. So I retreated to the sun (moon?) porch for a cigar....and it's fucking cold out! That damn wind just won't quit. I'm purposefully saving my authentic Cuban cohiba for a warm day to enjoy outside and it feels like it'll never come!

Wow I saved some of the huge hailstones from those intense storms in SoMD a couple summers back the same way you did - in a ziplock bag in my freezer. You've inspired me to keep them as long as I can, maybe 30yrs from now I'll be able to pull them out as a party trick. I think the most impressive thing from your post is that you've actually gone that long without a fridge/freezer equipment failure causing it to melt!

I do wish there was a way on the forum to separate out the politics and just factually discuss the effects of climate change on our future weather in the MA, but it does seem a very perilous endeavor and probably isn't worth the effort to thread that needle.

Above is a case in point. We can't even talk ABOUT talking about politics without a fight. I think in the history of the Internet only 37 people have ever had their minds changed about politics as a result of fighting about it on the Internet. It's just not a productive use of calories and cortisol.

I do agree with keeping politics off this forum. Politics tends to ruin pretty much every conversation on the Internet whenever it pops up so I understand banning it on a weather board.

I have argued that the modern version of a liberal Western democracy, or modern version of capitalism (whatever you want to call it) - where people in general try to optimize for personal gain and consumption - really only works well and peacefully when there's an ever growing pie of resources to exploit. Since WW2 and with the advent of globalization it has been a special time with seemingly endless new cheap resources and labor sources to exploit and mostly keep countries happy and peaceful. Now the earth is starting to get pretty crowded, and the resources are starting to dwindle. Unless some new technology changes our trajectory I believe we will see increased competition between individuals and states for this shrinking resource pool. I also doubt it will be an entirely peaceful transition.

Norfolk is the new Mount Rainier. I'm taking the under on that account without significant proof. That is literally the equivalent of 20% of the annual snowfall at Paradise, Mt. Rainier in a few days...in Norfolk.

Ugh and the track surface felt like running on titanium when it was so cold and you had your spikes on - so cold and hard. I get a case of shin splints just thinking about it. I stole our state finals baton my senior year and still have it to this day, 25yrs later!

I think you're missing the forest for the trees. Just because it's *usually* chilly doesn't mean I have to like it. Early September is *usually* still hot but that doesn't mean I'm not sick of the humidity then either. Cold in March would be more tolerable if I had a foot of snow to look forward to but 99.5 days out of a hundred it actually just means cold, bare, frozen ground.

Spent the first 25yrs of my life living in Michigan...I can't tell you how many seasons of track and field we had to run in the snow in those stupid tiny shorts and tank tops, even in April. Sprinters HATE to run in cold weather. I don't miss those early meets.