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Climate Craziness (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Ok, so I keep getting gaslighted by people around me (USA) when I comment how crazy the weather is, and how we've never had it like this, and they say things like "oh, you just notice it more now because you're older" or "the weathers always done this"

But I don't think it's normal for weather to be -10 degrees F with snow, and then 3 days later 75 degrees F! That seems insane to me!

Unless I'm wrong and we really have had this insane type of weather "forever". But it doesn't feel like it.

the Question: Am I crazy, or right, and is there proof?

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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I always felt like when I was a kid we got snow in November - half a meter of it by Christmas - and now there's less of it and it comes later. But when I look up the actual snowfall stats for my childhood years, it's not that different from what we get now.

It's not all explained by climate change, but it does play a factor - especially with extreme weather events. Still, good to remember that weather ≠ climate.

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