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After being kind of chilly * (high 40s - mid 50s F, 9-11 C) , lightly rainy, iron-grey, and all-round a normal January day for this part of the world yesterday, today I wake up and it is pleasantly warm (low 70s F, low 20s C) and partly cloudy. While I don't object to the warm temperature and lack of rain, it does make me worry a little. Obviously there can be unseasonable days in any part of the year, and it's normal for the weather to change gradually over a period of many years (thus the seasons seeming to be shifted later than I remember them being in my youth), but it seems to me that more and more, the weather patterns of the world are changing in ways that are... unbalanced, chaotic in the bad sense (and moreso than the weather already is based on chaos). I note ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
metaphorge's comments about the temperature bouncing around by tens of degrees where he is lately, and besides being remarkable, it feels un-well somehow. It's similar to the way I wonder if the incidence of cancer really is greater and greater (rather than just an increase in diagnosis, especially versus medieval times), and if all the nuclear testing in the 40s and 50s changed the environment of the whole world in ways which are just now manifesting fully - if we fucked ourselves over without really being able to foresee that we could do so?
* - Well, in a relative sense. It's nothing to the kind of shitty weather that poorenotsola, shishain, kissspooky and others are dealing with right now.
[edit: fixed my temperatures. with only 45 minutes of consciousness when i posted this, i didn't notice the fact that the temperatures from the fahrenheit thermometer in the kitchen (which faces east and thus is falsely warm in the morning) and the celsius thermometer in my bedroom (which faces north and thus has a more accurate idea of the air temperature, at least) didn't correspond. i know about this temperature difference in a general sense, but i wasn't thinking. as i was preparing a sandwich for lunch it suddenly occurred to me that i had said that mid-70s F was less than 20 C, which is nonsense.]
metaphorge's comments about the temperature bouncing around by tens of degrees where he is lately, and besides being remarkable, it feels un-well somehow. It's similar to the way I wonder if the incidence of cancer really is greater and greater (rather than just an increase in diagnosis, especially versus medieval times), and if all the nuclear testing in the 40s and 50s changed the environment of the whole world in ways which are just now manifesting fully - if we fucked ourselves over without really being able to foresee that we could do so?* - Well, in a relative sense. It's nothing to the kind of shitty weather that poor
enotsola, shishain, kissspooky and others are dealing with right now.[edit: fixed my temperatures. with only 45 minutes of consciousness when i posted this, i didn't notice the fact that the temperatures from the fahrenheit thermometer in the kitchen (which faces east and thus is falsely warm in the morning) and the celsius thermometer in my bedroom (which faces north and thus has a more accurate idea of the air temperature, at least) didn't correspond. i know about this temperature difference in a general sense, but i wasn't thinking. as i was preparing a sandwich for lunch it suddenly occurred to me that i had said that mid-70s F was less than 20 C, which is nonsense.]
