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
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.___
Man every time I’ve seen that curve of this years North Atlantic sea surface temperature the past couple of months it just get crazier. I wonder if we’ll look back someday and see this as the “tipping point”.
You can’t outrun the hockey stick!
Soil’s dry as a bone. Largest wildfire in recorded history going on. No pollinators.
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Location: Germany
It has been pretty dry here since mid of May. Barely any rain which causes the fields and lawns around me to look like its mid August already but that’s still 2 months away. Drought monitoring shows that especially Eastern Germany is rapidly sliding into the next drought.
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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Gulf Coast US
Today we had major flash flooding. Our entire driveway became an ocean. Bridges and roadways flooded out. Cars and houses under water. Rain in the forecast for the next 10 days too.
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.
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.
