It means extremes for sure. It's why the hurr durr it's cold out people are morons, our climates are changing. Warming causes global changes.

Some areas get drier like California. Some places get colder. Midwest of the US gets more intense and frequent tornadoes and extreme storms. My area is getting more rain.

Take what you already get in terms of extreme weather, dial it up to 11.

We had -13 a couple days and yet our lake has not frozen in about 15 years. Used to freeze every year. People used it as a shortcut for hauling lumber for gods sake.

Climate change is real.

Northern Italy here. We are having the coldest winter in 10 years.

Idk where in the North are you, but around these parts the "exceptional" cold just means it's been a winter like the ones we used to have in the past, young people just don't remember, or, no discrimination intended, they're not from around here.

It's not so much that climate change means an increase in temperature, that's why we kind of stopped talking about global warming, and used climate change instead.

The overall average temperature is steadily rising, but the bigger everyday issue is that it leads to wilder fluctuations in frequency and intensities of weather events. Hurricanes are more frequent AND more intense, tornados are more frequent and stronger, heat waves are hotter and last longer, cold snaps are colder, etc.

So a record cold snap is not proof that climate change is a hoax, it's proof that it's true.

Central Italy here. For the first time in this decade I found ice on the windshield. I remember in the 90s it was thick ice for 3 months and I was always late for school because it took too much time to scrape it

The lake is frozen over with ice but it’s melted. This winter has been setting heat records where I live so I assume it’s the same where OP is trying to go ice fishing and they’re saying that due to climate change they probably won’t get a chance to go ice fishing again

It's January, you should be able to drive a truck on the ice. Climate change

By me, the overnight temperature rises have usually come with precipitation behind it. The opposite has happened where temperatures drop after 9am with drier winds. I can't exactly say it's normal or that I'm particularly knowledgeable on the matter, but I've independently theorized it's really just standing out now because I frequently look at hourly forecasts. Between hobbies and maintenance, I'm now interested in such a granular report. I didn't always have to care this much and got by just fine with morning/afyernoon/evening/overnight