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2026-07-28 20:22 UTC
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@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca 2026-07-28 22:09
@ned@beige.party I've been in Edmonton 15 years, and it's been consistent that we have rainy summers whenever there's an El Niño weather pattern globally. So when the news started mentioning a (global warming fueled) "Super El Niño" this year, I knew there an extra wet summer was likely. I didn't know it would be this extreme, and I didn't know for sure it was going to happen that way; it was possible that the "super" weather patterns could have shifted enough that we'd get dry weather like they've been having in Calgary. But I was expecting a switch back to rain after five La Niña influenced hot dry summers in a row. (There was one mild & dry El Niño winter in that stretch, but it flipped back before Canadian summer.) Anyone who tries to suggest that this is just random weather variation & not part of global climate change is just keeping themselves willfully ignorant. #YEGwx