Hit 50 this year and realized I've seen average temperatures climb nearly 2 degrees in my lifetime

I grew up in rural Ohio and remember winters where the pond was frozen solid enough to skate on by December, now it's January before we get any real freeze. My old weather journals show average summer highs in the mid 80s back in the 80s, but last July we hit 95 ten different days. Has anyone else noticed a shift in their local seasons that matches their own lifespan tracking?

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leo_lopez3d agoMost Upvoted

Man that's wild about the maple syrup season shifting. It's crazy how those small changes add up over decades, like you're watching your whole childhood climate disappear in real time.

andrew_nguyen643d ago

Oh boy, you've hit on something I've been tracking myself. I grew up in Vermont and we used to get our first measurable snow by Halloween most years, now it's often Thanksgiving or later before we see any real accumulation. My old logbooks from the 1980s show we'd have 40 to 50 days of subzero temperatures in a typical winter, but last winter we barely had 10. The maple syrup season has shifted by nearly three weeks earlier than when I was a kid, which throws off the whole sugaring routine we've done for generations.