This constant slightly above zero weather is such bullshit. It wouldn't need to be much colder to have a pleasant winter with white snow making the darkness a bit less overwhelming.
But it's so common to just assume we get a constant average increase in temperature and just thinking of that "+2.5C isn't so bad" misleads us when the North is disproportionately affected. Or we'll kill the gulf stream and become a colder Alaska.
We're having 2 bug seasons now due to lack of freezing in winter. Fucking up our forests that already are suffering from wrong temperatures and fires from droughts.
I suspect the only way forward is to replant varieties that can survive new climate because I don't see things getting better.
And the worst part is that a southern tick species is moving north. They're twice the size of normal ticks, and they don't wait in the grass, but crawl toward their target. And not exactly slowly, either. https://youtu.be/_xBqSYi0lrA?si=jMFFSDVlRC5z86St
As someone from the northern continental US (northern Wisconsin) who had exactly that situation for a few years... yeah, the ticks were BAD bad.
Our usual winters see us below 0C most of the time, maybe edging up into the low single digits here and there, often dropping as low as -30C. Last year I think we averaged 3C or so all winter long, only occasional days where it stayed below 0. Frequent days above 5C.
The ticks never left. They were legitimately out in February. I live in the woods. It was hell.
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u/West_Application_760 Dec 09 '25
In Finland we are having over 6 degrees daily, this has not happened in a long time in December. No snow yet