Oh good point on the institutional distrust. But that does put you in rather a bad spot.
I have the good fortune of being on the fringe of the vortex, so while parts of the country are cold enough that F and C are actually the same (-40, is when that crosses over), I'm hovering up in the lovely zones where the two scales remain incompatible. (Instagram Stories helpfully translates between F and C if you just tap the little animated dancing penguin gif enough times, so I know it's -7C today.) We're about to have a fantastic temperature inversion, though; it's meant to climb up to freezing today, maybe warm up enough to rain (joy), and then soar well above tomorrow, and by Tuesday it'll be downright balmy, raining all the while, which means that the frozen-solid earth won't defrost, but the 3 feet of snow we got will, and we'll have some fantastic flooding and then it'll harden back into impenetrable sheets of ice until probably May, so I can't wait for that. The blizzards are easy-peasy, I don't mind those, it's the temperature fluctuations that will literally drown you. (I wish we could send some of the excess liquid over to you! Last summer we literally had twice our annual rainfall over the course of six months, and crops rotted in the ground. The ground is still saturated and now we'll have snowmelt, eventually, if it ever defrosts enough, and massive erosion once the ice in the soil lets go........)
Ha ha ha climate change is real and we're all fucked. Cheers!
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I have the good fortune of being on the fringe of the vortex, so while parts of the country are cold enough that F and C are actually the same (-40, is when that crosses over), I'm hovering up in the lovely zones where the two scales remain incompatible. (Instagram Stories helpfully translates between F and C if you just tap the little animated dancing penguin gif enough times, so I know it's -7C today.)
We're about to have a fantastic temperature inversion, though; it's meant to climb up to freezing today, maybe warm up enough to rain (joy), and then soar well above tomorrow, and by Tuesday it'll be downright balmy, raining all the while, which means that the frozen-solid earth won't defrost, but the 3 feet of snow we got will, and we'll have some fantastic flooding and then it'll harden back into impenetrable sheets of ice until probably May, so I can't wait for that. The blizzards are easy-peasy, I don't mind those, it's the temperature fluctuations that will literally drown you.
(I wish we could send some of the excess liquid over to you! Last summer we literally had twice our annual rainfall over the course of six months, and crops rotted in the ground. The ground is still saturated and now we'll have snowmelt, eventually, if it ever defrosts enough, and massive erosion once the ice in the soil lets go........)
Ha ha ha climate change is real and we're all fucked. Cheers!