As seniors, meaning we've lived a long time, have you noticed weather changes?

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I've been living in the same place for 35 years, and strangely lived most of my life at the same Latitude. Right now, for me, it's winter. But I have to admit that these winters are not the same winters I had 35 years ago. I can get dumped on with snow, but it's not lasting, and it's all gone way before it used to be.
As seniors, meaning we've lived a long time, have you noticed weather changes?
 

fuzzybuddy said:
As seniors, meaning we've lived a long time, have you noticed weather changes?
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I don't live that far from you, and I haven't really noticed big differences for anything going on in most of the seasons. The one thing I *have* noticed is that there are tornadoes now, and some extremely close (like within a mile) and that never happened when I was a kid. I have lived within a 50 mile radius from where I am now my whole life. Same snows, blizzards, amounts, etc. as far as I recall.
 
The only difference I have noticed is more days in the 90s.
Used to be they were in August only, and could be counted on one hand.
 

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I’m not sure if the weather has changed or our ability to deal with it has improved.

Since I stopped working the weather has had little or no impact on my life.
 
Good grief, yes! It's one of the reasons I struggle to understand naysayers. All you have to do is to open your eyes. The weather in my part of the UK was much worse than it is now. I'm pretty hardy, and haven't needed to put the heating on yet this winter. Mind, if my wife were here, she'd have had it on.
 
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I've been living in the same place for 35 years, and strangely lived most of my life at the same Latitude. Right now, for me, it's winter. But I have to admit that these winters are not the same winters I had 35 years ago. I can get dumped on with snow, but it's not lasting, and it's all gone way before it used to be.
As seniors, meaning we've lived a long time, have you noticed weather changes?
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I was just saying exactly this, just a short time ago.

When I arrived here in the late 60's, the snowfall was much more than it has been for the past 5 yrs. or so.
 
Oklahoma seems to be experiencing more extremes in precipitation. Summers have produced drought conditions and I have spent winters here with an abnormal amount of snow. In spring we get more rain and flooding. Things did not seem to be this exreme in the past. This area has had lots of trees dying the past couple of years, trees that had been flourishing for decades.
 
Obviously annual weather changes from year to year and decade to decade, but that's nature. Over my 77 years there have been no noticeable changes overall.

Actual, significant changes are measured over centuries and millennia, not years and decades.
 
Oh yes indeed....I can remember growing up when it would rain for 8 to 10 days straight...we do not see that now, also the storms are more intense now, the lightning and thunder are horrific....dry spells that last for months, that actually kills mature trees.
 
The World Meteorological Organization confirmed that 2024 was the warmest year on record. The last decade has seen all of the planets 10 warmest years since 1850.

Georgia seems to have escaped some of the hottest days that have plagued states like Arizona and Texas but we had an unusually long and bitter cold spell this winter. Also tornados seem to be occurring closer to home.
 
Yes, I've noticed weather changes. Absolutely. We used to have a significant forest wildfire around here maybe once in a decade, maybe less often. Now it seems to have shifted to one (or a couple) every three years. Less snow up in the nearby upper elevations so drier conditions all the way down to the local lake & river.

I believe there were some 'climate-change deniers' in my valley 20 years ago, I suspect there are almost none now.
 
Babs2u said:
The World Meteorological Organization confirmed that 2024 was the warmest year on record.
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This is something that bothers me a little. The whole "global warming" thing is a bit of a misnomer. Not everyone will experiences heat waves - some places will get colder, some places will be washed away (as has already happened for some island dwellers). More warmth overall affects the complex weather patterns in different ways.

I MUCH prefer cold to warmth. Meaning, I can deal with a snow storm, but a heatwaves is horrendous.
 
VaughanJB said:
This is something that bothers me a little. The whole "global warming" thing is a bit of a misnomer. Not everyone will experiences heat waves - some places will get colder, some places will be washed away (as has already happened for some island dwellers). More warmth overall affects the complex weather patterns in different ways.
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I think you're right about that. Back around 1995 I took a university extension course on basic ecology, and part of that involved a bit of basic climate principles... fundamental being the movement of ocean currents and air masses. Clearly these factors make for varied forms of weather/climate change, in various localities.
 
Don M. said:
I'm sure that the planet is warming, but it's so "subtle" that most of us don't really see any major issues. However, if this trend continues, I wonder what those living a couple of centuries from now will have to contend with.
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The key, I think. Few of us truly care about the repercussions for later generations. Be it our grandchildren, great-grandchildren, or beyond - we just don't seem to care. Personally, we won't be too affected by climate change. I'll be dead and gone within 30 years. But we leave behind a legacy, and what we do do now affects them. We won't be there personally, so we tend to sweep it under the carpet.
 
VaughanJB said:
Good grief, yes! It's one of the reasons I struggle to understand naysayers. All you have to do is to open your eyes. The weather in my part of the UK was much worse than it is now. I'm pretty hardy, and haven't needed to put the heating on yet this winter. Mind, if my wife were here, she'd have had it on.
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I live in Virginia, where winters are mild. This winter has been freezing cold, with lots of snow.

Having said that, I do think that the weather is changing, and pretty quickly. People I know who own beach houses are selling them at a loss and moving while they can.
 
Yes. It's obvious. In spite of the fact that we had a record snowfall here in Mobile last week the 10 winters that I have spent here have on average been about the same as they were when I lived in Pinellas County Florida when I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. The latitude where I grew up was at 28 degrees north. The latitude here is 30.7 degrees north.
 
My mind is telling me that when i was a kidling in indiana, the
winter snow started before thanksgiving, and snow remained
on the ground until spring thaw.....now my mind could be faulty
on the memories......
 
Over periods of human lifetimes, climate changes for specific regions will vary greatly from year to year. I can read news about planet locations where average climate change seems to be dramatic, but that has not been where I actually live.

I do however visit the Sierra Nevada mountain range often where during my adult lifetime, areas of permanent snow fields including small remnant glaciers have significantly shrunk. Such snows are common in steep north facing slopes above 12,000 feet.

Also large wildfires have greatly increased here in California in part due to more recent drought years, however overpopulation and infrastructure growth due to excessive immigration and capitalism has been a more dominant factor, especially real estate wealth driven.
 

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