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

It used to be warmer in Florida in the winter months here, North Central Florida, but lately it is bitter cold. Not too many hurricane warning or any hurricanes at all where I live but now they are coming here and many alerts and also orders to evacuate. Scary at times.
 
Lived in Tucson from 1961 to 1973 and again from 2021 - Present. No change that I can tell at all.

What I CAN tell a difference in is the air pollution.
Especially in PHX; at the Grand Canyon; in El Paso on both sides of the border. Tucson, not so much.
 
Up here on the moors it is the lack of contrast that is most noticeable.
We used to get warm summers, the occasional hot one but we got deep snow in winter most years, rainy springs & autumns. Many a time we were completely cut off for a few weeks in winter as the snow ploughs & gritters never bothered with the narrow roads up here. Now it tends to be murky dull, quite mild & rainy for most of the year. It’s always windy & we get more rain now, can tell if it’s summer or winter from the temperature of the rain 🙄
 
This winter has been more normal with cold temps, but still a very small amount of snow. Less than 2 ft total whereas 8 ft for the season is more the normal. But it sure is nice!

Last winter was not really a winter with temps so warm that we had virtually no snowon the ground all winter. The winter before was record snowfall with over 12ft total.

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I know that Climate Change is a serious thing, but the upside in my state, there is a lot less snow than there was when I was a child. Also, there are a lot less days of below zero weather. Last winter, no days were below zero temperature. This year, just one day. Then again, does that mean that summers will get warmer also?
 
Weather always changes, sort of cycles, since trees and brush started having big burns the Ice has been melting.
One day the 11000 ft thickest part of Greenland will melt. An area 3X the size of Texas. So Sea shores will gradually
Change, cities will be abandoned and people will move to Greenland to live.

People will move to Antartica to live. All the daily Stress of Work, succeed, profit etc gone forever. No need, everyone ok doing well enough.

Life will go on. AC Pumps will get more solar efficient in Deserts. Much Sea water will be desalted to use as
Life sustaining stuff for agriculture everywhere except the cliffs of mountains. More rain will fall cause of more
Moisture in clouds all of the time. So much solar powered pumps spraying water up in the air!

So the easiest way Is use Sea Wind Turbine and solars to power the pumps out there off Shore some miles
to create Trillions of gallons of fresh water, & spray salt water up into the air to evaporate. The Salt will just mix
With the fresh melt of Icebergs and Glaciers by the Trillions of Gallons fresh water mixing. Rivers will run, fish
will thrive, feasts will happen and parties galore locally too.

The future paradise of life living the latest-coolest-dance.

Many homes built in the mountains
above the water. People will darn Personal Protective Clothing and devices. Nothing big here.

Ai will be in charge of stuff and work hard to make life better for the Stupidest. There is no fix for stupid.
100,000,000's Autos won't exist. Every one will be under arrest and inside of a square mile all their lives.
Ai will have Id's of everyone, no one does anything but lay around in their fond-u-lotion's. More N likely Stoned!

I sort of think the Sun gradually heats up too and puts out warmness to all. U no this place has been around for Billions of years.

The low-lying cities, in Europe, London, DC, Tokyo, etc. won't be needed / underwater many feet of H2O, with the new, dance to the sweet beat world Government that has the time to care about people / families and their wonderous world of leisure. many Countries have so much Sea
in their futures. Thas a better thought too.

Coast lines changed by 100's of miles, Huge lakes everywhere, the world more glorious, wet, Blue & Green galore. The Dead / dry / ugly part all gone forever.

Most likely the more important thint for ya is quit swallowing thing coated with plastic, drinking stuff from plastic and let all that plastic stuff be tossed off to a fill to later be ground up into something reusable safely many 100's of years from your today. Ai can fix that then.
 
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This winter 2025/26, ranks among the wettest on record, since records began back in 1836. In the last few days however, the sun has put in a welcome appearance. At the risk of putting the mockers on it. Putting the mockers on it is a British idiom meaning to jinx something, I am going to wake the MG up today. This morning's sunshine is more than welcome.
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The winters are not cold anymore. You can't just skate on ditches. There hasn't been an 11 city skate tour for ages. Summers are way hotter. Almost nobody has airco cause it was never that hot. With the latest heat wave I met the elderly neighbours at the swimming pool, the only cool place.
 
I watched a nature documentary and it said there's evidence that weather patterns are shifting. Parts of Canada that were historically colder are showing signs of warming.

Then, this winter, we saw weather patterns of cold, icy, polar extremes sweep down into the United States and remain for awhile.

Something is definitely changing. I just wish summer would cool down just a little to where it's in the 70s most of the time. Mid to high 90s are just not acceptable anymore.
 
I have lived in too many states with different climate zones. But coming back to Missouri and expecting
what I lived through in the past and comparing by decade, I sort of see patterns of winters being tougher, then
lighter. Flooding doing the same if I looked up state record flooding in the areas I was, not state wide.
What surprised me most about moving back was the drop in humid summer days, least for my area.
I can remember humidity being so high here, you would be covered in sweat just from the effort of drying off.
I don't doubt we have problems with climate change at all, but I do think there is also a mix of natural processes
mixed in with it.
 
The weather this year has been much warmer than we ever remember - we did have two short, hard freezes but it has been overall so much warmer. Gotta say this past year was nice.
 
I think as we age were more aware of the weather/pay attention to it more including the daily temperature. And if one is aware weather goes in cycles ie several years in a row of the samething

I think many more aware as to what weather can do including heating up asphalt & concrete or how freezing temperatures can affect materials and water in different places.
 
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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No. Global Warming is not a 'misnomer'. It refers to the average temperature of the surface of the earth continuing to go up over the centuries. Global warming then causes climate change (a separate concept) which results in all the changes we have been seeing. Severe heat, severe cold, severe rain storms, severe drought. no snow, huge snowfalls, etc.
 
Since 2020 in BC, we’ve had rains and floods that destroyed major highways, extremely hot summers and the accompanying forest fires. The winter of 24/25 was record setting warm and dry, followed by the hottest summer on record. We’re just ending the new warmest and driest winter on record.
 
I spent half of my life within an hour of Chicago and we got a ton of snow and cold in the winter. My kid’s Halloween costumes always had to be big enough to go over their winter coat so everybody could see their costumes. My sister lives there now and the weather is so much milder. I have been gone 30 years.

I now live in Nevada and out of the 30 years that I have lived here we have only had what I consider five real winters. However, the summers are getting hotter and the city I live in is the fastest warming city in the country. We are also having more wildfires. People that grew up here as kids say that every winter was a real winter back then and they had snow every single winter.
 
Yes. I miss the days in TN when the high summer temp was 75 degrees when I was growing up. It was sunny but balmy and perfectly comfortable. Can hardly believe the #s of places that suffer 100+ temps now in summer. 🔥🥵
 
Absolutely. One of the things I've noticed is that the weather can flip flops from very cold to warm or hot in a matter of days. Back in 2009, I predicted that weather patterns were going to change such that it may get just as cold down south as it gets up north. When my son wanted to move to Atlanta to escape the cold, I told him not to bother because they would be getting cold weather too. Of course, that started happening. In 2009, I also predicted that severe weather events would become more widespread and happen more frequently. I remember the year because I was in a group in which we discussed such matters, including the effects of climate change.
 
I quit trying to compare
I remember in my hometown we used to get snow and schools closed etc....they still build in snow make up days even though last 3 years zero use for that. ... this year did not have any snow other than dusting gone by mid-day. grandkids miss making snowmen etc.
We go back about once a month as my daughter's family now have my house. light jacket all that is needed all winter.

I moved to the western part of my state been here ten years....... first few years we had zero snow and mild winters spouse loved it no shovel etc.
Then a few years ago we started getting snow here. We live in area with carports that do not like the weight of snow and so must be cleaned. For 3 years straight more snow each year...... lasting longer and longer on ground.
Spouse bought a snow removal tool for roof / carport preparing not a single flake to be seen this year barely frost.

Now I said it next year we will need the snow tool that is sitting in the shed untouched.
 
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