Most of the younger people here see any oddity in the weather as a once-in-a-millennium event. I'm old enough that I've seen most of it before.
I've played outdoors without a jacket on Christmas Day when I was little. My home town rarely gets snow, but back in the 80s I saw snow piled up past the first floor of a church, and bulldozers were pushing up snow and loading it on dump trucks to be hauled to the river.
I've seen heat and cold records broken. I remember in the 60s trying to make it through days of humid 100+ temps. All we could do was sit still in front of our one electric fan with sweat pouring off of us. I also remember a day so cold in 1958 that the record for that day has never been broken. Things were freezing inside the house not far from the heater. I've been through a tornado in the late winter that flattened concrete buildings and wrapped mobile homes around limbs in the treetops.
In short, I haven't seen anything lately that I would call unusual. It's not even winter yet, so it's not super unusual to have high enough temps to provide enough energy for a strong storm system to form.
It even snowed in Bethlehem on Christmas back when I was younger. It was a big news item.
I agree and I'm not as old at 42. When I lived in Colorado we had a lot of warm weather through January in the early 1990s. I remember a bunch of 80 degree days and then blizzards in March and April. It was a pattern.
Most of the younger people here see any oddity in the weather as a once-in-a-millennium event. I'm old enough that I've seen most of it before.
I've played outdoors without a jacket on Christmas Day when I was little. My home town rarely gets snow, but back in the 80s I saw snow piled up past the first floor of a church, and bulldozers were pushing up snow and loading it on dump trucks to be hauled to the river.
I've seen heat and cold records broken. I remember in the 60s trying to make it through days of humid 100+ temps. All we could do was sit still in front of our one electric fan with sweat pouring off of us. I also remember a day so cold in 1958 that the record for that day has never been broken. Things were freezing inside the house not far from the heater. I've been through a tornado in the late winter that flattened concrete buildings and wrapped mobile homes around limbs in the treetops.
In short, I haven't seen anything lately that I would call unusual. It's not even winter yet, so it's not super unusual to have high enough temps to provide enough energy for a strong storm system to form.
It even snowed in Bethlehem on Christmas back when I was younger. It was a big news item.
I liked global warming better when it used to be called weather.
The temps go up, and the temps go down. Every year since I can remember, weather reports have occasionally reported record highs or lows for the date.
I agree and I'm not as old at 42. When I lived in Colorado we had a lot of warm weather through January in the early 1990s. I remember a bunch of 80 degree days and then blizzards in March and April. It was a pattern.