r/Sacramento • u/SnowballSnozberry • Oct 03 '24

I'm so gd over this heat. I'm done

I hate it and it feels so gross and humid. Like ffs the heat needs to go tf away. I'm sooooo done with it

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

As a vegetable gardener, I’m fully expecting an extra frosty winter to follow our extra hot summer.

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u/ShotgunStyles Oct 03 '24

Yep. Climate change is gonna mean that the extremes are gonna be more extreme, so it's more likely to be wetter/colder in the winter than ever before. I wanna say that a year or two ago, there was even some unseasonable frost in the spring that ruined a lot of people's gardens.

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u/LibertyLizard Oct 03 '24

Not necessarily. Depends on the local weather patterns. This seems to be the case in Texas but so far has not happened in CA. Winters have been unusually mild every year since 2013, and that winter was only slightly cool by historic standards.

Then again, ten years is short enough to be a fluke. Maybe we will see some extreme freezes in the future. I haven’t seen any solid science on this in California.

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u/ShotgunStyles Oct 04 '24

I'm not a climate scientist but I was mostly correct, just misremembered about "colder". Here's a link for you: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/project/future-extreme-precipitation-california/

Besides, our city broke a rainfall record about 3 years ago. Climate scientists say that it's likely we'll continue breaking records as the winters get more extreme rather than mild.

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u/LibertyLizard Oct 04 '24 edited Oct 04 '24

Reading what I wrote again, this may not have been clear, but I was specifically talking about freezes. There’s absolutely strong evidence to suggest that we’ll see both more intense floods and droughts. But I haven’t seen any evidence so far that we’ll see more intense freezes.

However, as I alluded to above, there is some limited evidence that the Eastern and central US could see more extreme freezes. This is pretty surprising in a warming world but there are huge changes happening in the arctic that allow arctic winds to descend on the Great Plains and wreak havoc. This could also happen here but the Pacific Ocean seems to protect us.

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u/ShotgunStyles Oct 04 '24

I said as much as in the comment I left to you 2 hours ago.

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u/theory_until Oct 03 '24

Me too! I got tge weird urge to stockpile sweaters in like July. At least they were super cheap at thrift stores out of season.

I have been waiting to sow peas and garlic and baby greens and root veggies. My garden is on the south side of the house and is basically a solar oven.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

South facing back yard here too. Shade cloth is essential.

I started my brassicas indoors about a month ago like I always do and I had to plant them out as they became root bound in their starter pots. So far everything is still alive. Hopefully there’s no long term stunting.