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Where is the ice? Great Lakes ice cover is nearly non-existent and reaches 50-year record low | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
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[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It’s the middle of summer in Australia as I wear a jumper and pants on a cold 20 degree day. Shit should be like 40 by now.

I think we’ve accidentally grabbed each others weather.

[-] Cuttlersan@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Condolences friend 🙈 TBH I prefer that nice 20C weather (that’s 68F for any folks in the US reading; 40C would be 104F). Right now it’s 2.78C here (37F) and that’s unusually warm this time of year. But you are quite welcome to have a bit of our freezing rain on my behalf jk lol :p

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