Is this weather going to be the new normal here in the DC area?

[Anonymous]

Climate change is going to give this area about the same total amount of precipitation but with periods of drought and then a ton of rain. So to that extent this past few weeks is how it's going to be more often going forward.

[Anonymous]

Lol I was thinking the same thing! I love the 2004 climate disaster movie ‘the day after tomorrow’ with the crazy premise that climate change disrupts the mid Atlantic current and causes a sudden ice age in Europe and New England, and I can’t help but wonder if something similar is happening now although less extreme. Feels like we are now all season moderate and rainy like a warmer version of the Pacific Northwest rainforest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol I was thinking the same thing! I love the 2004 climate disaster movie ‘the day after tomorrow’ with the crazy premise that climate change disrupts the mid Atlantic current and causes a sudden ice age in Europe and New England, and I can’t help but wonder if something similar is happening now although less extreme. Feels like we are now all season moderate and rainy like a warmer version of the Pacific Northwest rainforest.

Which is actually nice, although not good for other areas. Look at Texas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s just bizarre to me how climate change can make summer cooler. That makes absolutely no sense to me.

The climate changing would be getting hotter and hotter. I don’t understand this at all.

Many other places are experiencing heat waves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s just bizarre to me how climate change can make summer cooler. That makes absolutely no sense to me.

The climate changing would be getting hotter and hotter. I don’t understand this at all.

Many other places are experiencing heat waves.

Europe would be much colder (it’s so far north) but for the air and ocean currents.. once you mess with those currents very strange and unpredictable things can happen. We’ve had ice ages result from volcano eruptions. It’s very unpredictable and complex systems to mess with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It just rained about 4 inches in an hour at my house in Kensington. Never seen anything like it before. No thanks.

I’m in Kensington too. That rain was insane. Were you able to measure it or are you just estimating? We needed it so badly, but most of it was runoff.

But the rest of this year has been amazing weather in my book. Gorgeous fall colors. Warm winter. Sunny, low humidity (till now) May and June.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If so, I'll take it. Climate change is unfortunate and scary, but the only benefit is that I love the weather we've been having. I hate the hot, humid summers here.

Spoken too soon, OP - thanks for jinxing it

[look at the 10 day forecast]

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

It is going to get much much hotter here, every summer, until it will be unlivable here.