14°C = 57°F
Italy?
Thank you for writing 57°F instead of 57.20°F :)
My best Christmas ever was in Belgium. We were supposed to go to Germany for the day to visit distant relatives. A blizzard closed everything and instead I got to stay in a bathrobe and read.
Now I would have to go and pack a bathing costume. I am not a fan of climate change.
As an American, I’m wildly entertained by thought of calling a swimsuit a bathing costume
I’m still holding out hope that this el niño cycle will pass and we’ll get a few more winters with snow and actual cold.
I mean, it’ll be a consolation prize before we all burn to a crisp before we drown and/or die of crop failure and/or die by super hurricanes and/or die of a horrible infectious virus that escaped the “perma” frost and/or die as society collapses around us and violent idiots use this opportunity to live out their homicidal fantasies couched in faux political rhetoric and/or the violent idiots in charge of governments nuke us all to death and we all die in multiple blasts and/or in the nuclear fallout that follows and/or the accelerated crop and/or societal failure as the remaining countries go to war over precious resources and/or the remaining livable land on the North Pole.
But, in all likelihood, we won’t get those last few winters because scientists are predicting this El Niño period will be inescapable and will only jumpstart the inescapabale warming period were barreling toward.
Merry Christmas.
I won’t ever forget how cold it got here last Christmas in Appalachia.
I closed the store for the 24th and 25th. When I came back the place was flooded because the heat stopped working and the pipes in the ceiling exploded. The entire store was flooded and I spent the day after Christmas pushing water out of the store.
I had to take a heater and melt the ice to finish the job.
What a nightmare.
Same here in the UK. Far too warm.
These are the temps in the notoriously cold Minnesota as well. I’m unsettled and upset.
Yup. I’m Northwest of you in Canada and I can see my lawn. I’m not supposed to see my lawn…
(At least until March at the earliest. We have a little bit of snow but not much, most of it melted)
I’ve been semi thankful that the snow is held off as long as it has so I could keep working and finish up our work projects that have lagged worse than previous years. But then I realize why and get aggravated.
Is it unfair of me to ask what kind of work projects and if the work involves driving large trucks around?
It’s storming and 60 degrees where I live.
It should be cold and snowing.
I’m glad I never had kids. Can’t imagine how bad it’s going to be in a decade or two when the shit really hits the fan.
January and February is when it normally gets cold here.
People like to pretend that Christmas was a time of snow and ice, but that’s pretty rare. Dickens wrote about them, but his childhood coincided with the coldest decade in over a century.
Mate what? You typically see -3 to maybe 7C. It’s 13-14C today it seems. That’s not normal.
The warmest Christmas in UK history is 15C. Yesterday was the hottest Christmas eve since 1997. We won’t know until tomorrow if today is the hottest Christmas on record.
Quit your climate change denial bullshit.
It is 20C where I am. I don’t remember it ever being over 5-10 in this area, during December. I’m still wearing shorts, while usually going outside without a thick hoodie and a scarf used to be a stupid idea.
And on the flip side of that, the summer was so hot, that we all had to bunker inside, to avoid high humidity heat.
