Jonathan Hunter @chattwjonathan@qoto.org

It's hard to imagine here in southeast Tennessee today, but 80-90 years ago the hills and mountains were fully logged and mostly devoid of trees.

It's hard to simply visualize let alone scope the environmental damage through erosion and wildlife displacement.

@trinsec Sea level and close proximity to the (relatively) warm ocean both strongly work against snow. Seattle Washington may not be as far north as Netherlands but is north by American standards - and because of the water, it similarly averages very little snow and decent amounts of rain.

@hankg Thanks for the welcome! I hope I do as well!

@trinsec Now - over where I'm at in Southeast Tennessee - it's a different story. We probably average seeing snow once a year, and it doesn't usually stick around. Can get more, but often don't get any.

@trinsec Flagstaff is at about 7000 ft / 2100m elevation - so in the winter months, more than half of it's precipitation falls as snow. The mountains also help wring out more precipitation than the surrounding deserts.

Weather pattern in the Western US has definitely shifted towards winter. A little late for it, but snow making it's way down to Flagstaff Arizona for tomorrow morning.

Will continue to see that pattern through at least early next week - and perhaps longer than that.

Figured I'd check in to Mastadon via qoto . Build up and find a new environment for the case that either Twitter degrades or find a new community that's better.

I went from mIRC > Reddit > Twitter > Mastadon following better conversations. We'll see if this is a place for me.