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When I look at the weather app on my phone and it tells me of an “excessive heat warning”…. Yeah.
This summer so far I've had either a non stop smoke warning or a non stop heat warning. Or both!
Yep, same here. The smoke was so bad there for a while, I’m glad that has subsided.
But that's like everyday.
Shit we had an excessive heat warning in the middle of winter last year... It was like 90 fucking degrees. 2 weeks later we had snow!
That’s climate change for you. The extremes become more extreme, the weather can fluctuate near daily, and you can have events exactly like you described.