Polar vortex fuckery may bring bullshit cold winter to North America and Europe

[icemaz]

People die because of hot summers, people die because it rains a lot, people die because it doesn't rain a lot.

People die, don't ruin someone's excitement for snow because of it. It's weather, it affects everyone in different ways depending on where you are.

[Ripsipiirakka]

For me when the cold part of the vortex hits its just a normal winter but when the hotter part hits it reminds me of how fucked the climate is.

[nixnax123]

I'm saying climate change will affect more and more people over time and sooner or later being excited about it isn't going to be too much of an acceptable response. I'm not trying to ruin their excitement but this is something we definitely have to think about

[nikomo]

I commute by bike, this should be a fucking blast.

[Rastadogg]

One man in Minnesota, a Polar Vortex barring down on him, and 3 RWD vehicles. Who will survive?

Anywho it's been nice knowing you all.

[Vuu]

These super cold winters were actually the norm here. Now everyone loses their shit when it hits under -10, even though winters with -20 were standard 40 years ago. However, back then everyone would lose their shit when it's 30 in the summer, now it goes up to 40, and very dry. The fact that our soil is basically sand on steroids (loess) also means that it can get very dusty. The climate makes everything look even seedier than it is.

[patq911]

oh boy, It's going to be fun going to work at 4:30am when it's 0f outside. I hope my 20 year old car doesn't conk out.

[PiddlezMcFuzz]

iirc, wasn't the last one of these caused by the arctic ocean being several degrees warmer than usual, causing the warmer arctic air to push colder continental air farther south? And since there is almost no arctic sea ice left anymore, this means that the warm waters are now exposed year-round to the air above them, meaning that this kind of weather is now the new normal for winter.

I remember seeing a map that showed the north pole being something ridiculous like +20 C warmer than average while central Siberia was like -40 C colder than usual, though I doubt I am remembering the numbers correctly because those would be absurd.

[jamzzster]

Love winter weather. Bring it. Can't wait to do donuts in my car park

[Iceblizzerd]

As someone who does snow removal this is incredibly amazing (oh man the overtime) and extremely concerning (passed out last year due to exhaustion). If it keeps being warm though I can probably expect to see workers comp getting alot of back injurie claims which was a huge problem last year.

[NO ONE]

2008 ice storm was horrible, although the effect on me was fairly negligible because I was a middle school student and our house had a reliable generator. 2014-2015 snowpocalypse was really significant though. Missed around 1 month of classes for 1-2 of my courses that semester, also had many shitty/missed work days doing auto part deliveries. That season started to kickstart my inspiration for eventually getting the hell out of New England. Hopefully before I'm 30, which is still a long time to wait before making the big jump (26 next month). I may just move to the Boston area, which sometimes works out to get less snow than NH, but other times more. I think overall, Boston typically gets less than most NH towns though, so it would be a bit of an improvement.

I hear Germany has fairly nice mild winters, so that, plus many other reasons has me interested in making it a long term goal to probably move there. But, if I never seem to find the right opportunity to make that move, making the US still the most likely place to stay...Austin, TX maybe? Las Vegas? Arizona or New Mexico? Hell, even NYC or Philly would be an improvement in how much snow I'd deal with.

So I read we have another El Nino weather pattern coming up too, or is it technically El Nina for the East Coast? El Nino pattern contributed to the 2014-2015 snowpocalypse, are polar vortexes and El Nino patterns different? So far though, the snow in southern NH and MA has been mild/light.