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BlackJesus420 OP t1_j5h1amz wrote

Our winters also just aren’t that bad. We pale in comparison to the northern plains states.

People definitely overstate how miserable winter is, plus, as you say, it’s absolutely beautiful some days! But hey, to each his own, and more for us.

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thishasntbeeneasy t1_j5heou1 wrote

It's getting worse though. I loved winters in NH when that meant snow that stuck around and lots of good skiing/sledding. Now it's mid-30s all season so nothing is frozen and most of the precipitation is rain/sleet.

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sheila9165milo t1_j5k4ws4 wrote

Notice how warm the ocean is right now compared to a few decades ago? The temp off Hampton Beach is 42 degrees. That's insane. It used to be 33 degrees when I was growing up in the 1970s, right on through the 1990s. Then pond hockey tournaments started getting canceled because the ice wasn't thick enough, the ice races on Milton Three Ponds got canceled year after year and can't happen now because they don't freeze enough to have them, no rime ice at the shores now. In about 20 more years or so, we'll be experiencing Southern winters of 50s-60s through the winter and zero snow at all at this rate.

People who complain about the cold and snow and talk about moving South and I tell them hang in there, it's coming this way. So, enjoy beautiful scenes like this while we still can because they aren't going to be around forever. Global warming is accelerating at a rapid clip.

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