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xkcd #3299: Summer

Title text:

You should probably get back to shore before spring hits.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3299/

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[–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Quick? It's still running almost 100° here every day in MID SEPTEMBER. Summer is oppression in the south.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 12 points 1 week ago

For real, Summer has been a grueling slog with no end in sight.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Where I live it’s getting chilly at night and that just means we have another three false summers to go.

Then maybe snow on Halloween. Or 90 degrees.

[–] clanker_victim_555@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Where is getting short summers? Global warming keeps making them longer here.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

This feels like a Calvin & Hobbes cartoon and I love it.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

lucky you, still hot for me

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Inb4 the explainxkcd page mentions special relativity at least once

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

This is lovely. Randall Munroe still has the touch.