I'm actually really looking forward to reading those links, I don't have the time to now. I do know that my area just set a record, this is the first January we've ever had with no daytime highs under 30°.

Edit:. Ugh warmer and more snow.

Right but the full phrase is almost never what you are referring to since 99/100 if you say www you’re intending to talk about it being typed with specifically those three letters

Our lakes do generally freeze over every winter. Just depends on the lake

Relevant and interesting information on that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Snowball_Award#Snowfall_by_season https://www.localsyr.com/winter-outlook-2020/winters-in-syracuse-are-changing/

thank you for making this omg- i had no idea there were more predictors in Ontario than Wiarton Willie… so i zoomed in and this is the first time i’m learning that my own hometown has someone in a costume do predictions!? the more you know i guess!

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>Looking at the lower atmosphere rather than the surface temperature (mostly) removes the influence of elevation.

I live in Colorado, at approximately 1600 m elevation (so slightly higher than shown here). I'm sure that wave of -40C won't lead to those same temperatures here, but how does elevation play a role? Do these temperatures then appear at 1500+1600=3100 m elevation?

Look at this guy basking in shorts weather over there. :)

What is going on with this map? NZ arse up by Alaska and on the wrong side of Aussie... Gets worse the more you look at it.

Sorry. Meant to make a joke about the above guys name because it’s artaig which sounds like arctic. Also I thought I typed “in”. Not I’m. I’ve had little sleep.

Definitely colder for you guys. We get a lot of warm air off the ocean and Lake Ontario.

Is there a nice list of open data providers anywhere? There are so many nifty APIs providing open data across the Internet. I figure there must be a nice index listing a bunch of them but I'm not sure where to look for such a thing. This seemed like the kind of sub that would know.

It's actually the same. That's where the scales meet.

New Hampshire in the 90s/00s. Suprised your lakes don't freeze over every winter, I thought upstate NY was colder than over here. Lake Winnipesaukee freezes over pretty damn solid every year, usually enough to take a bobhouse out.

The lake usually doesn't "ice out" until April, but its been getting earlier every year. Used to work on the Mt Washington as a deck officer and one year we had guys jetskiing in late March.

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When were you a little kid? I grew up in the '80s and '90s in upstate NY, and it was always interesting to see if we would actually get a white Christmas, or have enough ice to drive our trucks on the lakes. Then we had those crazy cold winters in the 2000s and 2010s (Even canandaigua Lake froze!), now it seems like we're back to the winter weather of the '90s and late '80s.

What physical activities were you doing? How many calories were you consuming? I am of a similar weight (91 kg) and my end goal is also around 75 kg. Try to eat healthy, but unfortunately, I have a sedentary lifestyle.

I wonder how these align with cultural groups. Places like the UK, Canada, and Scandinavia seem to have drainage basins that align with different cultural regions of the countries (probably because their borders align with mountain ranges).

I really want to make a data link table that’s webs out with all interlinked pieces of data. Specifically subjects on a podcast. Anyone have ideas if a place where I can make something like that

Some of the real groundhogs will do that, but often there is just someone holding the groundhog or it's in a plastic box or something. Most of the time, the announcers take their cue from the weather: if there's sun out, it can see its shadow — if not, early spring!

Based. I just go by what I see in the mirror, which isn't a number but goes down too, so nice.

Meanwhile it’s still roughly 26-31 degrees Celsius in Florida fml

W is three syllables.

I mean, technically, it doesn't need to be alive to produce a shadow...

I always thought the groundhog was released into the outdoors in some way, and if it came out facing the direction of its shadow, we had more winter, but if it didn't (or it was overcast) we had spring. So does someone like spin one of these dead guys on a Lazy Suzan and see which way it ends up pointing? Or if its overcast they just call it early spring?