This Is Fine: Humans Get Used to Extreme Weather Disturbingly Fast

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If you find yourself getting used to strangely scorching or abnormally frigid temperatures, you might not be alone.

After combing through over two billion tweets about the weather, a team of researchers found that people seem to get used to abnormal weather pretty quickly. They found that users were less likely to post about unusually high or low temperatures if the same weather conditions had been seen in the past few years.  Peoples’ idea of “normal” weather is often pretty shortsighted

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