It's snowing in Texas and Twitter is freaking out

Oh, and it's 60 degrees in the Northeast, too.
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The first full week of the new decade is about to wrap, and it's already been stressful with serious issues in Iran and surprises like Megxit. Now, we have to deal with the manifestation of the climate crisis in our respective cities.

Take those in North Texas, where it is currently snowing — while in New York City, where I'm currently writing this, it's 60 degrees. Totally cool and normal, right?

It's not just NYC that is experiencing unusually high temperatures, where the average high for a January day is 40 degrees. States such as Ohio and Massachusetts are also experiencing spring-like weather:


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The average January temperatures for those states are around 35 degrees and 40 degrees, respectively.

Twitter certainly took notice of the odd weather and ~did its thing~ aka, tweeted a bunch about it:

Some folks on the social media site say that it's "crazy" Texas weather, not climate change, to blame for the snow. (But let's be clear: climate change is real, and anyone who suggests otherwise is wrong.)

Between Texas and the high temperatures in the Northeast — not to mention the bushfires in Australia, tornadoes in both Texas and Louisiana, and an earthquake in Puerto Rico — though, there is a lot of bizarre weather happening. While you're figuring out how advocate for climate change action, you can always rely on others on social media to meme through it all.

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Anna Iovine is the associate editor of features at Mashable. Previously, as the sex and relationships reporter, she covered topics ranging from dating apps to pelvic pain. Before Mashable, Anna was a social editor at VICE and freelanced for publications such as Slate and the Columbia Journalism Review. Follow her on Bluesky.

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