As suggested in this post we will try out to establish a weekly observations thread. Share whats happening in your hometown, region or country that might not be in the focus of international media!
Picture: North Atlantic Sea Surface Temp. Anomaly
Soil’s dry as a bone. Largest wildfire in recorded history going on. No pollinators.
Love the inclusion of the graph!
This isn’t a sign of collapse per se, but god do I feel separate from the people around me. How can it all be business as usual? How come no one’s paying attention? It’s unnerving.
And even trying to talk about it isn’t quite taboo, it’s more like fatigue. They can’t handle thinking about so they just go about business as usual.
Reporting from Germany. The last rainfall in my specific region of Baden-Württemberg (southern Germany) has been roughly 3 weeks ago, maybe a bit more. There is a lot of very dry vegetation and there have been multiple forest fires going.
Bright red is active fires, dark red is potential for fires.
The next rainfall is set to come this week, but it is not going to be that much, while the temperatures are steadily climbing and are at around 31°C peak now.
Meanwhile the CDU is stopping the addition of planned bike paths in Berlin and thus stops transition to a fossil fuel free infrastracture. Instead they want to improve car infrastracture.
There is more awareness for climate change in Germany now, but there is not nearly enough action.___
Locally, tomato prices should go down currently, it is the season! they should be cheap and available. Their price doubled within one weak due to out of season weather events.
I think the trees outside my window are starting to die, but I am not sure, as I am unfamiliar with their species. I am new in the area, they did not look that bad last year nor the year before.
Seattle reporting in. It has been cooler than normal and much wetter than the past few years. I commented on this to my wife, who said “it’s like how Seattle springs used to be!”
Yes… which is why it is kind of strange. Especially when I’m reading about other places that are on fire, breaking record temperatures, and extremely dry. I have no doubt it won’t last. We’ll soon be hotter than normal, choked with wildfire smoke, and praying for rain.
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We had a huge fire eighteen months ago that ripped through my suburban town and took 1,000 homes. One of the causes? A super-wet spring followed by a dry summer.
Give you two guesses as to what kind of spring we’re having. Everything scares me.
Reporting from southern US. Haven’t noticed anything exceptional. It’s been raining here for a bit, and it’s always pretty hot when it’s not raining, in the summer.
