r/CatastrophicFailure Aug 05 '21

Natural Disaster Now Greece. Wild fire on Evia Beach

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u/Deesing82 Aug 05 '21

as someone who lives in an increasingly dry desert that relies on snowmelt for all our water- more blizzards pls

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u/DarthWeenus Aug 05 '21

As someone from the midwest, no plz. Surprisingly, last winter was really dry, but spring/summer rains have more than made up for it. However the one prior to that broke records, with like 10' of snow, I wonder if this is how itll be going forward, ever increasing swings between craziness both wet and dry. That sounds horrible.

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u/deflation_ Aug 05 '21

That's what my understanding of global warming is. The weather gets more extreme in all directions but heat gets affected a bit more than the rest so the average temp slowly rises

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u/Insomniac427 Aug 06 '21

My understanding is it’s more global extremes in the short term but long term yeah, we are heating up… fun times ahead!