We just had our first-EVER tornado in Minnesota in December

[NickB79]

Also, record-breaking temps for this day (60F).

Did I mention this is in FUCKING MINNESOTA, less than two weeks from Christmas? It should be single digits and snowstorms.

The climate is broken.

https://www.fox9.com/weather/first-december-tornado-ever-in-minnesota

[Ocelot II]

1. It's been a very weird day.

[dflprincess]

3. December 15 and the temperature at 7:30 pm was 54

and there was a thunderstorm raging outside my windows.

The rain has calmed down and the wind isn't bad (yet), but the flashlights & extra batteries are on a table where I can find them even in the dark if it comes to that.

This is weird.

[soldierant]

9. At one time I had a flashlight

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which had a battery which could be charged by plugging it in to any household outlet. If the power went off, of course it stopped chrging, but it als lit up so you could easily find it. I don't know what happened to it. I haven't needed it. I wonder whether they still make them.

[iemanja]

10. It's still quiet in Minneapolis

Only some drizzles.

[dflprincess]

12. Still quiet in Bloomington as well

One thunderstorm earlier but nothing since. I hope it stays like this.

[BigmanPigman]

4. You were 3 degrees warmer than San Diego.

[AZLD4Candidate]

13. Three degrees warmer than here in Arizona

[bamagal62]

5. It's 61 degrees here

In Chicago at 9:45 at night with 50 mph winds. Just crossing my fingers that the power stays on.🤞

[wnylib]

16. Our forecast for tomorrow

is 60 degrees and winds of 35 mph, with gusts to 50 mph in western NY near Buffalo.

Buffalo should be having a few feet of lake effect snow at this time of year.

[iemanja]

6. 54 in Minneapolis

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Surrounded by a foot of snow.

The tornadoes are insane. I've never heard of such a thing.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. 26dF in Central Maine ...no real cold snap yet. It would be better to get some snow to

cover the grounds, though.

[GPV]

19. Otoh, bare ground and frigid temps would clean out some of the ticks.

[turbinetree]

8. I use to live in Minnesota and every year from March through May

we were always looking at the sky and watching the clouds turn dark gray and watching the tops of the trees and the wind....and what is going on now is just fucked up......my brother who lives on the reservation told me the weather is just fucking nuts, there is no or hardly any snow on the ground....

[James48]

11. I'm at the tip of the mitt of Michigan

And it was 56 degrees today. It should be below freezing, and the ice normally begins about now.

Climate change means this area, which used to be too cold to live well, is now going to be much warmer, and improved lake living desirability in the years ahead.

[progree]

14. I'm sure we (MN) will have our polar vortex before too long

another sign of climate change is the big swings between warm and super-frigid (for a couple weeks) in the winter.

[Ziggysmom]

15. 64F at midnight in SE Wisconsin. There should be a blanket of snow on the ground. All is bare

and ugly. I fear it's too late to do anything to save the planet.

[not fooled]

17. Thanks, 666koch666 brothers

and the imbeciles that deny global warming.

I live in SW AZ (for now, until I escape next year) and last year for the first time my deciduous trees didn't drop their leaves because the winter was so warm. It was hotter far longer into the fall. My trees still have their leaves this winter and are unlikely to drop them. This area has become significantly warmer in just the few years I've been here. This county is on a watchlist of 400 counties in the US that are predicted to warm so much that in 20-30 years there will be significant periods of time during which you risk death by going outside, because temperatures will exceed the ability of the human body to cool and regulate its temperature.

Yet, what are the dumb, venal goobers who run this town doing? Approving any and all development as fast as they can, in the process drawing down the local aquifer at an accelerating rate. Most if not all are probably global warming deniers; this area is strongly pro-trump and full of lds and other fundies. It's a recipe for disaster.

[a kennedy]

18. Our power was out from 8:00PM until2:00AM.

We reached a high of 66 as well.......we’re in SouthEast MN on Mississippi River right across from La Crosse, Wi. Winds were damn scary........one of our down spouts was ripped from house.

[Emile]

20. The high tomorrow in Wirt, Mn is 14 degrees.

Crazy weather indeed!

[TrogL]

21. We got your weather up here in Alberta

Unseasonably cold and we've been getting sleet storms followed by blizzards.