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    El Niño moves into record-breaking territory, increases odds of a warmer than average winter across much of Canada
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    El Niño moves into record-breaking territory, increases odds of a warmer than average winter across much of Canada

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    4. EatBaconDaily on

      Last winter was brutally long (started snowing in october) and the winter before that was brutally cold (-30 for all of January). I embrace our new El Nino overlords!

      **im from Montreal

    6. gilbertbenjamington on

      Seriously questioning the critical thinking of those seeing this as good news

      Edit: people are actually excited for the end of enjoyable weather. Enjoy 50 degree summers guys! Have fun

    7. Clicker61 on

      Warming winter isn’t a good thing. It means less snow and maybe not so cold, but temperatures only hovering around freezing indicates Ice Storms will be more common. Last time we had anything like this, we got the highly destructive Ice Storm of ’98!

    9. Electronic-Donkey on

      Great, hope they come up with a way to control ticks and a vaccine against Lyme disease for humans.

      Also, f these huge corporations and their top level executives who only give a sh about making record profits and bonuses.

    10. Good_Juice_7774 on

      Pretty sure this will end up making the Snow Squalls near Lake Huron even worse because the cold air going over the warm lake.

    11. -UnicornFart on

      This year’s El Niño is wild and is already breaking most of the historical records we have kept on El Niño.

      If you are into rabbit holes about earth sciences, this is a very interesting one! There is a recent episode of the Ologies podcast on the El Niño with one of the top meteorologists from NASA if you are looking for somewhere to start digging.

    12. Iamzaiden on

      Greed and money destroyed us all. This round of humanity is cooked.
      I hope the octopus have a better go at it.

    16. NotawoodpeckerOwner on

      So, does this help prevent polar stuff moving south to Florida/Texas etc. or does it make polar moves more exacerbated because it’s cooler and damper down there when it hits?

    17. JasonDFisherr on

      Does this include montreal? anyone knows? were pretty much on the other side of it.. so not too sure if well really be affected

    19. CobblePots95 on

      After this last winter I can definitely understand not hating the idea of this.

      But like, in the long-term this is going to become a pretty serious problem – mostly for the ways it might impact the watershed. Agricultural systems tend to thrive on predictability, and our whole system was constructed around certain assumptions of weather patterns and watershed.

      This winter sucked in a lot of ways, but it was **extremely** helpful for farms that were starting to enter shaky territory with their reservoirs and dugouts. The water management systems on a lot of Canadian farms rely snowmelt more than anything else – big surprise. A couple lean winters in terms of snowfall can mean those farms are **way** less drought-resistant.

      That lack of predictability also has a cost. It takes big money to upgrade all your systems for added resilience.

    21. TactitcalPterodactyl on

      Pine Beetles across Canada are rubbing their paws together in anticipation of a warm winter.