Aside from heat that I am fundamentally not built for, we had an actual tornado near me yesterday. Tornadoes are not completely unheard I guess, but they’re not common or something that we really plan for where I live. Humidity has also been wildly over the top, and pretty consistent instead of occasional. It feels almost tropical, or what I would imagine tropical weather to be. I’m from a traditionally cold-ish, temperate place. We have always gotten all kinds of weird weather but it feels a lot more consistently steamy and intense than it used to. What weird new weather things are happening where you live? How are you adapting to them? (How on earth do you cope when everything feels wet?)
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Depends how “recent” you mean. I remember snow starting to accumulate in October in the 90’s, and lasting until April/May. Now it’s more like late November through February at most. Global warming was very visible for me since the turn of the millennium
Summer is now Wildfire Season, and we can expect smoky air off and on for pretty much all of August.
I grew up in southern Oregon, and that was common, but moved to Seattle in 2007. I have seen the summers go from very temperate to wildfire season in that pretty short amount of time. Summers feel like the summers growing up
Ha, in the mid 2010s I looked at a job in Josephine County but wasn’t sure I could handle fire season. Joke’s on me I guess!
Yeah, it was something I forgot about until it started happening here. It really sucks to have to choose between air quality or comfortable temps inside your house.
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Sadly that last bit is also true where I am. Ugh.
We have always had tornados but I’m the last 10 years it seems like we’re getting more and they do more damage.
The most noticeable are the number of heavy rain events and flooding. Again 10 years ago while we had floods it was not as common to have flooding in all sorts of local areas. Now we see roads closed and small areas of flood damage where we used to only see large 100 year floods.
The heat sucks and has always sucked it just sucks more now.
The last time there was enough snow to honestly merit a school cancellation and allow for sledding was in 2007.
I remember there being a lot more snow days as a kid. We’d go sledding and have snowball fights everyday of the week.
These days you can count the number of snow days per year on one hand. And usually the snow only lasts for a few hours before turning into slush.
For real, I remember there being heavy, consistent snow covering on the ground for months at a time as a kid. Not so much now. It’s depressing
Oh Yeah I recall snowbanks at least a metre tall, some of it was definitely drifts and plow leavings but I could comfortably carve out snowforts in the front yard. I now live about 60 km from where I grew up in an area that historically has a reputation for snow, I maybe got a few cm last winter with one night giving us 20cm, think I needed to shovel 3-4 times the entire winter, usually melted within a day. For context, that’s just over 20 years difference, even in the early 2010s I recall having snow and seeing ac as less needed, where I went to uni in particular you just really didn’t need it for most days of the year.
Summers seem wetter, way more overcast and rainy than I recall, which has caused issues if I recall, wine producing region. Heatwaves are brutal when they do hit, was pushing high 40s with humidity.
Our summers have been getting hotter each year. Used to be we had about a week of very hot weather (for the region), but temperate the rest of the summer. Now we get multiple weeks of heat, and the daily temps are higher. Pretty miserable since most homes around here don’t have AC or heat pumps.
Our summers and winters have gotten hotter every year. We now usually get tons of forest fire smoke in the summers. In 2019 it was so bad everything was like orange silent hill. You could barely see across the street.
Smoke was never a thing when I was growing up. And it was rare to have a delayed snowfall until late November or December, but that’s becoming more common too.
I’m unsure of this next part(anecdotal and hard to look up) but I remember way more butterflies as a kid. Big ones too! But now we usually only get smaller ones and they’re usually less common to see.
We used to have winters over here. When I was a child we always had ice and snow, a market on the lake, and a kind of tour de france for ice skating going through many cities. That’s all gone now, it’s just rainy.
When i was a kid we had sometimes 60cm of snow over night and the whole town stood still and we skied down the mainstreet. At night it was absolutely magical. Now we have rain and dirt.
Yeah, as kids, not so long ago like 12-15 years we built Iglus in our driveway, now it just a normal driveway just not so hot as in the summer.
My highschool hasn’t seen a snow day in about 5 years, and we had several years where they had to extend the school year from so many snow days.
The lake nearby froze over solid enough when my dad was a teenager, he and his brothers would drive on the ice for fun donuts without worrying about the tires. It hasn’t frozen over since I was a child.
The summers of my childhood rarely topped 95, but now not only is that the new “average”, it’s gotten to 90s in the middle of winter multiple times in the last ten years.
Recently saw a thermometer over 100, which based on temperature records, that only happened a handful of times from 1900-2000.
