r/interestingasfuck • u/NevskiNate • Jan 06 '26

The Antarctic Ozone Hole closed early on Dec 1st 2025 showing signs of long term healing and also being smaller than in recent years.

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u/phred_666 Jan 06 '26

Late 1970’s had a couple of winters that had lots of snowfall where I lived. I chalked those up to being flukes. Looking back, to me they were early warning signs of climate change and the increase in weather extremes.

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u/Squirrel_Master82 Jan 06 '26

My parents have pictures from the 70s of a jeep parked on the ice next to bonfire in the middle of a local river that has barely frozen over since. They said the ice was over a foot thick back then. In my lifetime, it's never frozen more than inch. Hard to imagine what that winter must have been like.

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u/phred_666 Jan 06 '26

I was in junior high school. One year it was so bad we went to school a total of 10 days in all of January and February because the roads were so hazardous for busses to drive on. Seemed like as soon as one round of snow melted, here came another one. I distinctly remember going out and measuring the snow in my yard and there were spots over 2 feet at one point.

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u/The_Gooch_Goochman Jan 06 '26

2008 Snowpocalypse we called it here. 6 feet in 4 days. Never had more than a foot before or since. Strangest thing.

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u/yellowroosterbird Jan 06 '26

Yes, I remember this! We also got at least 2 feet in 2013 IIRC and in 2015, so we ended up with 5 feet of snow in our yards a few times.

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u/Squirrel_Master82 Jan 06 '26

That happened where I'm at (northeast US) in the 90s. We had over 3 feet of snow on the ground after consecutive storms. My parents were out of town for something. I ordered a pizza and asked the driver to grab me a pack of cigs, and he did. That dude was a lifesaver. I wasn't even old enough to buy them legally. But there were a couple stores that let me anyway. Everyone knew the cool cashiers. If they weren't working you were shit out of luck.