October 2026 general discussion

[Brian5671]

Already 56 here.  TORCH!

[Brewbeer]

temp over 60 now, where's the wind ?  

[WinterWolf]

62 currently…gonna be gorgeous.  

[dendrite]

61.3/49

Tooooorch

[Typhoon Tip]

Off note/op ed:

Relatives currently across southern Michigan are experiencing a Lilac bloom here nearing November ... and the photos/evidence I've seen, these are robust bouquets ... Not a mere floret or two.  I began noticed this here in New England beginning ~ 7 years ago, and since it's been sporadic... year to year.. Small bud swells with a few cracked open, a small flower here and there- I've actually even witnessed seasonally dumbfounded bumble bee sniffin' around.

Not the bigger bouquets you get in May...but definitely "silently alarming" for climate aware types like myself - and definitely not enough of total population awareness... Nothing like this though,

 

Point being, the phenomenon is increasing in frequency and production - one among a vast compendium of different climate change ramifications that are ongoing.  I was just reading about thermokarst phenomenon ... permafrost detachment landslides, and glacial thrust events, all of which have both increased, but at an accelerated occurrence rates over the past 30 years.  The shit over in Tibet was civility being in the wrong place in the wrong Millennium when a detachment took place...etc. 

I know that global climate change is fake and that profligate exploitation of fossil fuels is part of human kind's divine right and provenance of all Earth kingdom come ... has nothing to do with acceleration/adding to it.  And that science is fake... But, I guess somewhere between the enormity of whole villages and their occupants being swept away, and the acrid stench of incarcerating poly-aromatic hydrocarbons ...there exists an incredible beauty like bouquet that has no right to exist at this time of year. Feels a bit like a forbidden fruit though ... definitely a guilty pleasure.  First cousin can be just too hot to leave alone I suppose...