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   considerate (c0nsid3rate@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 01:16:58 JST considerate

   ‘A break from the heat’: Americans most affected by climate crisis head midwest https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/22/climate-crisis-americans-move-midwest?CMP=share_btn_url

   I was going to say. Why are people even moving to Florida in the first place?

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 01:16:55 JST feld

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     @c0nsid3rate because the extremes of heat and cold in the Midwest are worse than people who never lived there realize
     
     I'm tired of summers where it gets over 100F and weeks of 90% humidity and then winters where it's -30F
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 01:20:28 JST feld

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     @c0nsid3rate People don't realize it but the crops significantly affect weather. The higher the yields they're getting out of their corn fields (which every generation of seed gets a little better) increases the humidity. There is a phenomenon we call "corn sweat".
     
     
     https://www.wunderground.com/article/science/weather-explainers/news/2024-08-27-corn-sweat-midwest-dew-points-humidity-heat-index
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 01:33:33 JST feld

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     @SlicerDicer @c0nsid3rate its hell, that's when my AC tried to burn down my condo and I had a hole in my wall and 3 days of torture where you can't breathe because the humidity and heat are so high. You can't sleep, you can't think straight.
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     SlicerDicer (slicerdicer@bikeshed.party)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 01:33:34 JST SlicerDicer

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     @feld @c0nsid3rate It’s like urban heat island but rural humidity island.
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     considerate (c0nsid3rate@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 03:52:54 JST considerate

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     @feld I just pretend the -30F for a week never happens. (We all have our coping strategies.) This past summer here in Minnesota is the most comfortable I've ever experienced here. Overall though I find the humidity is less than in central Illinois. I'm still recovering from summer running (in high school) in that brain baking Illinois heat and humidity.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 04:00:57 JST feld

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     @c0nsid3rate yeah Minnesota has harsher winters than where I was in Wisconsin, but you're spared from some of the worst midwest heat/humidity.
     
     Illinois can be absolutely brutal from being able to have all that blow east from Iowa etc
     
     The tornadoes in Wisconsin *IN FEBRUARY* this year reinforced me never wanting to live there again lol