Look, at 58, I’m not all that “old.” When I was a kid growing up in rural Missouri, it got cold as hell and first snowed in mid-November each year, and the ground stayed white until at least early March. A climate scientist is not required to know Earth is getting warmer. I wore shorts yesterday.
This.
For the second year in a row we've had rain in December, rain IN DECEMBER in the northern most part of Wisconsin, Lake Superior hasn't frozen over in 3 winters, ferry runs all year now, we had snow, but now it rained it all away. Never before in our lives, hub grew up here, it's scary living it.
I'm 37. I live up in the great lakes. Same thing for me. I remember the snow starting in November and staying til March. Now we *might* get one big storm per year. Flurries here and there. It was 57 degrees here today in the 2nd week of December. Wild.
58 here… Canada We used to make a skating rink in our back yard when I was young, in December… it lasted until late March, some years until April We wore snowsuits to school Summers were never over 25 Celsius, except for very rare days Oh… it’s warmer, winters are shorter
Snap - same opinion, different shorts😉
I lived in Black Jack MO (also rural:) and remember the flip side Jack, the summers were more humid than Fl. where I live now. I remember as soon as you opened the door in august to step out side you were literally SOAKED LOL. FL. has nothing on MO. humidity
Grass growing and $h!t
47 and I grew up in Buffalo NY. There was always a foot of snow by Halloween. I had to wear a full snow suit under my costume every year. I live in GA now, so it wouldn't be the same no matter what. But the heat seems to stick around longer every year.
Same here. And I didn’t feel like one of “those guys”.
I’m 62 and live in SW Missouri too. It’s so warm and I’m loving it! But, it’s a bad sign for the world. 🤔
Same here in Indiana. Always snow. All winter.
Rural Missouri? I live on the outskirts of Springfield near Buffalo Missouri. How close were you from where I am?
I used to live in Nixa! I drove through Buffalo…weekly. These used to be a little music/consignment store of the south side of town, on the east side of the road. I stopped in there from time to time.
Most likely Weeks Music, they closed a few years back😔 I lived in Nixa for a few years before moving here. I was born and raised in Springfield but I am not sure how much more I can take between the hypocrites and the toe growing (James River Church) fanatics lol
Omg u guys I’m from KC but my grandparents were from Ava
Now, Ava is a small town..lol that’s country living…
Remember when Lamberts was OUR's and OUR's alone?
Yes, I remember those days in Missouri as well. There was enough snow for snow forts AND snowball fights among the snow forts.
Ask anyone under 45 if they're familiar with the excitement of "the 1st robin of spring" I'll just about guarantee they've no clue. Robins don't leave to fly south anymore There's no need to 😔
I'm 37 and I remember this. Now I see robins all year. And they always look sickly.
Here in my part of NC we haven’t had snow in over 1000 days. Don’t tell me climate change isn’t a thing.
The MAGA cretins don’t believe in climate science or any other kind of science.
I had to turn the AC on today. New Mexico is hard to dress for.
48 here. Same story. If you don't believe in climate change your in denial.
Our Olympic peaks no longer retain a snowpack during summer. Lack of snowmelt in summer is negatively impacting river flows. Plus it serves as a daily sad reminder of our failure to reverse GhG emissions. How can voters set climate action as a low or nonexistent priority?
Grew up in Missouri as well and we would ice skate on ponds near our house every winter. No one would dare do that now.
You're a 66 baby too?
This is the second year in a row there is now snow on the ground in Minneapolis in December.
Third. We had less than 2 inches of snow in December 2022. They had a bunch in Southwest MN and up north but none in Minneapolis. We had brutal cold snap but no snow until after December.
It was 48 degrees in Anchorage, Alaska yesterday. In December! 😳😳
I golf year round in Canada, that's global warming.
In Victoria? Otherwise….
I’m 56 and grew up in rural MO - Bonne Terre and Viburnum. Snow days, snow men, sledding down streets, bare trees glistening against the white backdrop.
Unfortunately, a lot of people don't know the difference between the weather and climate.
We have lost a day of cold season a year since 1990 accelerating at the turn of the century. We have experienced 300 plus years of climate change in a normal cycle in 30
that's what thinking for yourself will get you!
71. As a kid, I used to count the number of days at zero degrees or below when we still had to go to school.
What causes the warming is where most people disagree.
I've posted about this on the bad place before. I lived in the same house on & off school, helping parents, etc. for 50 years. Things I noticed. When I was a kid, we would go out the back door in the summer, & there would be several different kinds of grasshoppers jumping all over. They were gone by
the beginning of the 90s. It was in a subdivision built in the 50s, so most of the trees were planted at that time. When I was little, beautiful Maple trees in almost every yard. Also by the 90s, they started dying, including ours & there was no disease. Snow. We lived in a lake effect snow area. It
was snowing on the day they brought me home from the hospital, Oct 20, 1972. That was normal. Also normal was the ground being completely covered by snow from Nov - April. It almost never melted completely away during that time. Changed in the 90s as well. Snowing later, melting off.Cycle of snowing
& melting. Now, you're lucky if it there's measurable snow by December, & it's usually gone by March. Temperatures. WAY hotter, also dewpoints in the 80s, & they act like it's no big deal. They used to freak out if it got into the 70s. Rain. We'd usually get one storm a summer that would pool in the
yard, now it's like EVERY time. Yeah, but tell me I don't remember, or it's my imagination. Also, the snow, if you went in the middle of the yard with your shovel, & dug a hole, you could actually see the layers from different storms, kind of like geologists with layers earth. But everything's fine
slightly older i remember shoveling 2 3 x's a week at least 4 or 5 weeks in winter growing up last 5/ 10 yrs maybe 3 times all winter
I hear you! Florida getting several category 3 and higher storms a year is not normal! We moved here in 1976 and didn't have a big one on our coast till 1985, then next one 1992 but since at least 2005, it's something big every year.
I’m in short pants, too, in California. In my little pocket of the world, it’s bc the past 2 winters have been markedly colder, and I’ve adapted. 62° used to be considered freezing for us.
I'm seeing all kinds of insects still walking and flying around. Last night a large moth flew into garage. Never saw insects like this in December around here. Climate changes, but so fast?
It's been happening for decades but now it's speeding up bc we haven't done nearly enough to prevent or at least slow it down.
Our kids (as grown ups): “Back in my day, we went to school in short and a T-shirt! Now, quit complaining and bit on your rebreather mask. Be sure to watch out of raiders…”
Exactly. There used to be snow, blizzards and 'white Chirstmas' when I was a child, we kids used to ski, skate and sled down the snowy hills. Now it's rain and mud.
I'm in the southern plains. We've had 20 consecutive days of less than 0.25 inches of rain and no rain forecasted for the next 10 days. Plus, we're still in the high 50's low 60's for daytime temps. As for snow, we just about have to drive out of town to see it anymore.
Ya gotta ask yourself - if every year is being claimed as the 'warmest on record', what's the temp going to be in 10 years? What you feel today is still tolerable, but d(temp)/d(t) (the rate of change with time) is becoming a vertical line.
I am in the far north and it has RAINED more than it has snowed, this December. A new normal, brought about by human activities. We should be collectively ashamed.
Facts
What did EXXON know & when did they know it?
When I was a kid in the 70s, it was 50/50 you'd have snow by Halloween. Last time I was home in October it was 80F.
I remember a Halloween as a child in SW Mo while it was snowing.
It was full 80's summer in FL the past two days after a very brief respite
It never got particularly cold in the South of England, but the grass doesn't stop growing in the Winter, any more.
when is the last time you knew of a kid digging a snow cave out of a drift? as kids, in the 70-80s we had a network of them.
Yes!
100%. The worst part about is that the climate scientists providing real information are being ignored!
I live on a canal. In order to protect my houseboat when the canal froze over, my husband would install a bubbler (basically an underwater fan) that would break up the ice. It's been 3 years since we needed to install it. No frozen canal.
I’m in Ohio right now (unfortunately), and picked tomatoes up until the first of December.
Exactly. I’m two years younger and Thanksgiving in the 70s in NC was cold.
What's happening in Alaska is a bell weather for what's to come with #climatechange . Feb 1989 - no warmer than 50 below for over a week in Feb in south central. -20 was common during the day back then. The weather prediction for Dec 2024 has the lowest at +2 degrees at night.
I'm in Alaska, this has been a very strange winter so far.
Same here in PA.
Talking about Global Warming has always been difficult. And it's been talked about for quite a long time. But the MAGAs 50 year plan has put Global Warming talk into DENIAL territory. When scientific evidence is disregarded for everything.. What Global Warming? Oh. That?! Now it's Global Heating.
84 degrees in Austin today. Battling mosquitoes while grilling tonight.
Ski areas are planning on things getting worse. Trying to be proactive
Only fat guys wear shorts to my grocery store in December.
Climate Change Is Real & Is Not Getting Better !
I live at 6,300 ft elevation in the mountains of Arizona. No jackets needed during the day when I should have snow. Creek hasn't had flowing water in half a year. All is normal... All is normal... All is normal...
We had two nights of deep freeze and today it's 60°
Missouri has shifted 2 (yes TWO) whole growing zones. (Used to run 4-5, where I live, Warren Co is now zone 6. Bootheel is a 7). Speaking a kid born between the blizzards of '78 & '79 who remembers the blizzard of '82.
I'm in St Louis but grew up in the bootheel. St Louis feels like the bootheel did in the 1980s. It's always been 10 degrees colder here.
Whoa. I grew up in the West Co area of StL. Thank you for confirming what we've been seeing. We can't grow 'cool season' spring crops anymore: spinach, baby lettuces, etc.
Yw. We are in South County. I've been growing 🍅 tomatoes the last couple of years! Climate change is real.
Yep, there's a marked difference between then & now, I'm the same age range & grew up in MO also. The weather was like clockwork back then.
I’ve lived in NE KS my entire life and remember actual snow days with 12”-18” of actual snow on the ground & huge drifts, and that was early 80’s. I don’t think my kids have ever seen that much snow😕
It’s Called Weather!
My dad is still Mowing yards in Illinois this week in December. I used to hate going to my son’s soccer games in October in the snow! My son will be 41 next week. A lot has changed with the weather in my lifetime.
69 In Mo. 60 miles south of St. Louis. You're absolutely right
Absolutely! We had loads of snowstorms in the 70s. I miss them.
Same where I'm at in Eastern Washington near the Canadian border. I'm the same age as you and as a kid we didn't trick or treat without being knee deep in snow freezing our ass off and it stayed cold until mid April. Yesterday I worked out in my garage for a couple hours in my shirt sleeves.
Same!! I grew up in Nova Scotia in the 1970s and we were skating on frozen ponds in November, always had a white Christmas and often still had snow at Easter. A really hot summer day was 80°F. Now we rarely get any snow to speak of before January and it's regularly over 100°F in summer. We're hosed.
I’ve never understood why we stopped sacrificing our crops to the weather gods.
I'm in a neighboring state and, yeah, 60s last weekend. Two years ago this week (12/12/2022) I spent the evening sheltered in my bathroom due to a tornado being on the ground a couple miles from my place. Totally normal weather in a place where we formerly had snow from October to March.
Oh my lord, I lied, it happened in December of 2021 as well (tornadoes plus derecho) but I didn't have to shelter that time...I think. Definitely had to in December of 2022.
But "old" enough to have a sufficiently long baseline to stand on solid ground when making this observation.
GenX having grown up an hour west of KC. I clearly remember several times I went trick or treating in 2+ inches of snow. Bundled up in winter gear, with only the plastic Kmart mask of my costume to show who I dressed up as
In central SC, we used to have a snowfall every year, even if it lasted only a few hours. We haven't had a snowfall in 8 years.
Spot on!!!!
67 yo. Lifelong CT resident. We get cold snaps but the winter rains are way more frequent. First frosts are later. Put in a heat pump AC system in 2018 as the hot days are too many to just tough it out with fans. Moths were out at 36 in the rain just now. Even ExxonMobil admits what is going on.
Grew up in rural upstate New York. Ain’t nothin like it was back in the late 60s. The climate has changed, and climate chaos is coming.
I am 62 and was born and raised in Florida. It was cold af in Florida last week, that’s very unusual. Usually it’s pretty cold in January here, but not in November/December
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Exactly
The response from the deniers.. look away. Even the fossil fuel industry knows we are in a death spiral.
Thank God that we are getting farther away from Ice Ages, the largest threat to humanity.
I just took a walk in Urbana IL and wore a light jacket. This is not good
No snow on campus?
We’ve only had a couple minor snowfalls. It rained last night. Totally too warm for December
We sure as fuck didn't have any armadillos here in my area either.
Same here. When I moved to Memphis in 1984 it was too cold for armadillos and fire ants. Now they are everywhere.
Vancouver, BC here. When I was a kid, going to school in the 1950s, and well before Halloween, we would often slide on ice-covered puddles that had frozen overnight. Here we are, into December with no frozen puddles yet, and no frost in the forecast.
I remember the same in Montana only snow wasn’t all gone until mid-April.
Way up because of ‘climate change’ in other parts of the country. If it’s real to insurers but not real to the government (state or fed) then homeowners are in a real damn bind, potentially.
I’m 49, in north central indiana and was just having this discussion with someone. It’s December 9th and I’m outside working with a hose/water today getting coops and brooders cleaned out. No coat, gloves, or hat needed. The b side of this is little to no devastating weather but prop ins is way…
I'm 78. Imagine how I feel. It used to snow in September here and that's when winter started. Now, it's December and you can barely call this winter.
I get ya. I'm 63 and I talk about the snows we used to get when I was a kid growing up in Kansas. Younger people look at me like I'm crazy, and then I start getting the dinosaur jokes. Middle 50's here today. Crazy.
ME TOO!!!
Oh, you’re still in the Youth Group compared to me! PS I grew up in St Joseph, did my undergrad in Liberty, raised my kids in Kearney.
Now anytime it snows climate deniers say see climate change isn’t real 🙄
Shhh! If you're in Florida, can't say "climate change." DeSantASS outlawed it.
Now its getting a little hard to outright deny so, its also a lot of 'oh no the earth is getting warm? Whys that such a bad thing anyways???? I LIKE WARM WEATHER.' Now
Dude, this anecdotal bs is the same thing as a climate denier saying "so much for global warming" when it snows.
K, first things first. I’m 59. You must be young because I’m young. Oh, and it was 20-something celsius in Toronto in mid-November. Unnatural. Of course the world is warming.
snowed in november and some of that same november snow was still on the ground on Valentines day...
Tell me about it. It was hardly ever ever in the 90’s in Central Pa in the 70’s in the summer.
Years ago I came across copies of a magazine from the ‘80s consisting of letters and stories from then-elderly people about life when they were young. Many mentioned the climate had been much colder as children. Now during scorching summers I hear older Trumpanzees denying anything amiss. “Sad.”
50s here in SW Colorado. I broke our my heavy winter coat, wore it for a wk. Now I'm back to wearing a hoodie. Nights still get down into the 20s but days are warm. Used to be the first snow was by Halloween and pretty much didn't let up until Feb or March. And we could still get snow on July 4th.
I remember the same. It’s ridiculous how willfully blind people can be. It is very clearly much warmer than it used to be this time of year.
I’m 26, nextdoor over here in Kansas and I’ve definitely noticed a difference
Science matters, and yes it’s necessary for scientists to quantify global warming. And yes, we all feel it. No snow in Paris these days!!
I think the thing I've noticed most is we don't have transitions anymore - Fall/Autumn and Spring are relics.
Yes, a snowy Christmas was always pretty likely when we were kids. Now it's become a rarity.
I wore my flip-flops when I ran to the store yesterday. Yes, climate change is real. 🩴
I'm in MO. I noticed ride my motorcycle every month of the year now. Couldn't used to. And if anything, I'm becoming MORE of a baby about the cold with old age; so it should be going the other way.
From MO. I remember the snow we got in 82 and 78. Epic.
I remember it also I grew up in Stl, but when the '82 storm started I was away at college, freshman at Drake U. in DesMoines, it was hit pretty hard also, the whole Midwest. Winter break we were forced to drive through KC, we didn't trust the rural 2-lane hi-ways, the shorter route thru the state.
I grew up in STL, my hubby Iowa. I've seen pictures of snow so deep that they drove snowmobiles through tunnels they made.
82 forever destroyed our Missouri winter sledding expectations.
Not even as old as many of the people under this post, I'm only about 23. When I was a kid my dad would make forts for me and my brother from a brick mold out in the yard. It's been over 10 years since I've seen snow that deep. South East Michigan here. I mowed my lawn a few days ago when it was 50F
I’m in Austin. Seems to me the trees should be bare by now.
How many armadillo did you see dead on I-70 in the summer?
I live right off I-70. Saw their carcasses up until early October.
I recently read an article saying that since 1970 New Jersey average winter temp has gone up 6 degrees. I'm 52 and lived here my whole life. I would say the article is accurate. We used to be able to skate on local lake. Been decades since the whole thing froze.
What grows & when in my NTX garden has changed over the last 30+ years. 20 years ago I got rid of my front lawn & put in native & native adapted plants. Less work -less water. Also when putting up Christmas decorations at Thanksgiving I am not thrilled to be fighting off swarms of mosquitos.
Exactly. We came To southern Ontario, Canada in 1986. It snowed in November then, now we often get nothing of substance till after Xmas and never an extended blanked of snow at all. We used to say we woudnt see our grass till spring. Now we are still mowing lawns till November
Exactly !
Right?! In NH, we usually had snow into April.
We did have 4 seasons now it’s more like 20 seasons climate change is real so is global warming
Uncle: 66. Born, raised in SW MO. When I was a kid, when it snowed, IT FUCKING SNOWED! 4-5-feet minimum per month, Dec, Jan, Feb. Schools closed for days on end. Shovels and plows working 24-7. It barely RAINS here anymore. Any snow that manages to hit the ground is gone the next day.
I am near Springfield, Missouri
Used to love Springfield (a road-trip treat for us hillbillies in the 60's & 70's). I was at the grand opening of Battlefield Mall in 1970. Too much traffic now to enjoy the trip, easier to just stay in Joplin.
Yup and Springfield is always tearing up the roads saying they are under “construction” lol
the earth was eventually going to get warmer because we’re still in an ice age that hasn’t ended but i wanna know how much we as a species sped up the warming period
Yeah, we are in an interglacial period (Holocene). Some climate scientists report human-caused warming is enough to keep us from ever moving to the next glacial/ice age cycle.
Daughter texted me a picture of the grands yesterday in the yard with the blow up Christmas Corgi. There was no snow on the ground. Grandson was in short sleeves. They're in Idaho, near the Continental Divide.
I'm 59 and from Montana, same here, so noticeably.
59 also and a Michigander. It's definitely different - markedly so.
About the same age and when I played football in HS by the third week in October the games were cold!
Minnesota here and a year older, we used to start with snow around Halloween and pretty much be covered in that crap until April. I can't hang with you on the shorts thing cause if its not windy out I am in shorts to -18. But yeah, this is much warmer overall than when I was a kid.
True ! We are the same age, I grew up in New England, and I remember skating the week after Thanksgiving ! We have old home movies of snowmobiling on Christmas and there being at least a foot of snow.
I saw a cherry tree w blossoms on it over the weekend.
I wish we’d seen anything but endless whiteness for the past week.
We have a few on our street too, but I looked them up - there are varieties that naturally bloom in the fall. They are just fine in the spring 🤷♀️
On the plus side, I cooked a lobster by dunking it in my toilet and, not to be too "alpha," but higher temps, hot babes, less clothes, 'nuff said? *** *** These were two entries on a Letterman Top Ten List from the 90's (I believe) - his writers were on the ball - and I miss Dave & his monologue!
For the past 2 years, my dogwood hasn't flowered because of the false start to spring.
Wow!
That is a cherry tree that will have no fruit this year. Because we know there will be a killing frost even if not a deep freeze. The cost of climate change.
My forsythia bushes have buds.
Not good.
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There’s a small lake just north of me that would freeze solid every winter. Ppl would ride snowmobiles across it and along the shore, bar hopping. That hasn’t happened in at least 10 years and all of those bars and restaurants have permanently closed
Same situation going on in North Idaho.
77 in central Texas today 🤬 I grew up in this area, it got cold around Halloween & stayed cold until February I miss it
End of the human civilization is the rapture for the loons on the right
47 here, near Toronto. These are not the winters of my childhood.
Don't need scientists to know global warming isn't good. Climate deniers making excuses for the hurricanes: sensibles knows that something is off: won't get better without action. Therefore, we need to listen to the scientists, who say urgent action. Listening won't kill us: denial will.
I trust the data, global warming is a reality, but we can’t solely go on the trends of fifty or hundred year cycles. My part of the world had mild winters over two hundred years ago and now it plummets to -40°C. What denotes climate change is radically fluctuating temperatures.
So since we are just coming out of the Ice Age, this is normal?
No It has warmed up far too fast for it to be a normal phenomena
Yes, I know that, but the deniers who dwell on localized data instead of studying the temperature trend on a global scale can argue that “thar granpappy one year planted corn in the dead’a winter ‘cause thar wuz no snow”.
True I, however, rely on empirical data to cross check my subjective experience. We need to encourage critical thinking.
Seems to work in Scandinavia, but it’s still too soon to know. Somehow we need to have stronger consequences for spreading propaganda, misinformation, and slandering. Sadly, morality is becoming subjective.
Its a hoax. I have it on good authority from a convicted felons with a 73 IQ.
Yep. Anyone who thinks that things are hunky dory is frankly a fewkin a) Idiot or b) an idiotic denier. It’s not as if you need a degree. Just notice WTF is going on around you. Tread lightly, do not use chemicals and there is no such thing as a weed. There is a virtuous circle. Respect it
Same here in Ontario 🇨🇦 it’s raining mild !! We use to have an ice rink in the backyard by Dec 1. We have green grass
The UK is suffering more and more extreme weather, rains and flooding just as your NASA’s climate tools projected. People in the East Midlands and East of England still haven’t realised they will be below sea level in 25 years. Permanently under water within 50 years.
The same NASA tool shows the American state of Florida not looking too healthy over the same timescale: climatekids.nasa.gov/health-repor...
I'm 57 & I swear growing up in S. WVA, the ground would freeze for a week or two a few times over the winter. The ground froze after an at least 8-10" blanket of snow followed by several very cold days. The creeks would freeze over, too. It wasn't a thick walk-on ice, but we sledded on it. No more.
I'm 78, and it's definitely getting warmer.
My spring flowers came back up in October. Not a good sign.
I’m in northern Michigan. Mid November I noticed my bulbed plants started to sprout again. I currently also have sunflowers sprouting under my bird feeder.
OMG and now 45 is up there joking about beachfront property and setting us back crucial years to fix it.
Everyday I lose a little more something inside me because of that 💩 head.
See my last post. I feel the same. But, onward we must go, lifting each other up when we can and taking a lift up when we need it. No battle worth winning comes easily.
Also in Colorado, had the same issue with all the crocuses in October. We know that climate change is happening. 😔
52 here. New England. We used to go sledding on Thanksgiving. Sometimes there was snow on Halloween. Now we go whole seasons with nary a smattering. If this is a Chinese hoax they are really selling it.
I’ve grown up in Alaska, 32 as of November, and the snow is heavier and more frequent than usual…
Age is not a number it’s a life experience tally !
I was just talking with my husband about snow staying on the pavement for weeks when we were younger. I'm 56 and grew up in KC.
I have a couple of windows open
60 or so years ago my dad would take us kids ice skating between Christmas and New Years on a local pond it wasn't until late January that the pond froze over last year
Up north here. And over the last 20 years it has gotten milder and the snow falls later and doesn't stay on the ground for long. Pretty soon it will be one slightly cold month and 11 months in hell.
I thought it was just me.
I live in central Virginia and we usually wore coats over our Halloween costumes, and that was very upsetting 😆
The problem isn’t, ‘We don’t believe the earth is warming’. The problem is, ‘We believe God is in control of everything, therefore the earth warming is okay.’ America is a backwards country, more similar to Afghanistan than Europe.
So much for that being good stewards of the earth thing. More like drunken frat boys destroying the frathouse, because they won't be there long enough for it to matter. Unfortunately for these idiots, they might have to answer for stuff since it's happening faster than they thought.
Great analogy! They worship truck nuts Jesus.
Yep. In New England we would usually get the first snow in October, and snow that stuck in November. You had to wear a winter coat on Halloween. Now it's just rainy and in the 40s most of the time, with the occasional cold snap. It gets cold but doesn't STAY cold.
You don't need to go that far back. I moved to MA in 1994. I don't think it ever rained in December here until about a couple of years ago.
I lived in Mass. as you were moving back. Things changed just in the 6 yrs or so I was there.
My dad, 68, who also grew up in rural Missouri, literally uttered that exact statement on Thanksgiving, but yet, thinks climate change is bs. *sigh* heck, the I'm 41 and remember having much more snow as a child.
Don't know where you live Jack; but it sure could right here where I live.
58? Yer a kid! 😂
I agree! I'm 67 and the climate is nothing like it used to be! 😺
Here in Southern NH its commonly in the 60's or 70s into November and it just doesn't snow much anymore. I stopped downhill skiing because the snow is too unpredictable to pay the outrageous prices
And they’ve redrawn the hardiness zones. We’re able to grow plants we couldn’t grow before further north because of the warming. Are plants in on the climate “conspiracy “ too?
Exactly! At 64 I remember when snowmobiling started by end of Oct-end March! In SW Ontario
I’m 68, I saw lumber trucks drive across Oyster Bay, peeled bark off birch trees, got minor frost bite walking to school, skated on ponds and didn’t see Canada geese in the winter.
Same age. Growing up in small town Ohio I remember trick or treating in sleet. Now in Texas I wore shorts today. Colorado ski season is one month shorter now than in 1980.
Same, wore shorts yesterday in Ohio. Grew up an hour south of here. Can confirm snow fell in Nov and stayed until at least March.
When I was a kid in Massachusetts we were skating in the shady corner of the pond behind my house by Thanksgiving every year. Lately it's not safe by Christmas, or later.
I’m 42. Same story further north (Chicago area). We’ve had at least four years in the last decade where it didn’t snow enough for my kids to go sledding even once.
Same, my winters here in northern Virginia growing up in the 70s/80s were much colder earlier and a lot more snow
It was almost 60 degrees today in northern Illinois.
Almost 70* yesterday in KC. Last winter was pretty wicked though!
We had 10 snow days allocated and used them all. We haven’t had a snow event in years, temps hit 50s and 60s in Jan now with some regularity.
Same but in Nebraska.
Spot on, Jack—climate change is undeniable. Winters like you remember are disappearing as global warming accelerates. Progressives fight for bold action, while Republicans deny the crisis. Time to act!
Truth!!!!
I'm just a little older than you and grew up in New England. I agree completely
You've fallen into the same trap as climate change deniers. Mistaking weather for climate.
59. Grew up 90 miles south of Memphis. We had snow so regularly we all had sleds. It’s in the 60’s in Alabama this week.
I live in Memphis. I saw a “Bygone Days” photo in the Commercial Appeal of teenagers who all owned ice skates and skated on the lake in Overton Park all winter. I think it was from the 1940s. I don’t know anyone in Memphis with ice skates. The lake in Overton Park never freezes anymore.
Theres a site on NOAA where you can plot averages for a day. Heres one for my region. Note the upward trend.
At 61,,, from rural Alabama, all I can say is the weather patterns here have changed dramatically over the last 30yrs. I fucking mow grass until November, then start back at that shit in March.
Good news: I have ripening tomatoes in the Austin area. Bad news: It was the hottest Fall on record Worse news: Our rainfall totals are among the driest on record.
