Something lots of older people have told me is that the sheer drop in insect numbers is what opened their eyes to climate change. Jeremy Clarkson denied climate change exists until he saw a dry river in 2019 and even now says it’s not man made. Despite all this he was concerned about how few butterflies he sees nowadays. Broken clocks and all that…
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I grew up in a tiny mountain valley 1000m above sea level. We had this small ski resort and in winter we would always go there. We could just ski down the street and take the first lift next to the street. This was for 2 months at least the case each winter. Nowadays there isn’t as much snow anymore. The single remaining lift is mostly closed and you could ski down the street on a few days only. And this was just 20 years ago!!
We have a also a bigger resort around here. There is a slope all the way down to the parking lot. Hasn’t been open in years now😕
I’m in the UK and it’s got so hot some years it’s unfathomable. We got to 30 degrees a couple of years ago! We’re not built for it and it’s awful.
Not 30C, but 40! I was putting the washing out on the line and the first items were practically dry by the time I’d put the last things on.
My wife was also heavily pregnant at the time so It was definitely not fun for her!
You really have my sympathy
We reached 40 degrees two years ago for the first time ever in Hamburg. It was really uncomfortable.
God that’s unbearable
Less snow. More fire.
Stink bugs in November/ December. I used to have winters without flying insects…
PNW
We called June “Junuary” because it still rained quite a bit. We didn’t have “Fire Season” when I was a kid, it was still safe to have campfires in August. There might have been a few days each summer where the temperature exceeded 100F / 38C. We didn’t have air conditioning, but it wasn’t really necessary. Summer weather was over by late September, but I don’t recall it ever being very “hot” once school started. It was mostly gray and rainy November to May.
Now, summer weather seems to start in May. It’s about to be 90F / 32C the next few days and I find myself wishing for more rain every June. There are forest fires every year, fire bans go into effect early to mid July, late summer the air is hazy and smells like smoke. There’s usually a solid week that exceeds 100F / 38C. Portable AC units are necessary for survival. I’m usually still wearing shorts and a shirt into the second half of October, my partner’s birthday is on the 20th and that’s been the last “long summer night” where we stay out until 2AM the past few years. Winter’s been a lot sunnier than it used to be, we usually get a “false spring” event in March. “April Showers” feel like they’ve been missing.
More rain than usual in our part of NSW, Australia.
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Less rain, more sunshine, warmer weather, longer summer and shorter winter.
In Southeast Pennsylvania (Philly suburbs):
- Winters are way more mild with much less snow. We were recently rezoned from 7a to 7b, which tells me the USDA believes this change isn’t going to revert.
- Summers are a lot hotter and more humid (and there are so many goddamn mosquitoes!)
- We get really strong wind gusts now - it’s not uncommon for the day’s forecast to have wind at 25 mph (about 40 kph) with gusts at 45 mph (about 72 kph)
- We get tornado alerts a few times each summer now. Those used to be super rare.
- We get haze as the soot from the Canadian wildfires drifts in our direction
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No Christmas beetles
