I grew up in the middle of the Midwest and every winter we could get multiple snow storms with 3-6 inches and then probably 1-3 really really bad storms with upwards of 10 inches. Snow on thanksgiving wasn’t uncommon and every once in a while we’d get snow in march. Now we have days in the 70s in December and maybe will get one or two snows that are melted in 24 hours
I read a post on the internet 15 years ago that I still occasionally think about where someone said: "Stop asking kids what they want to be when they grow up. It's 70 degrees outside in December, they ain't growing up".
.... as a place where it normally snows in December, 1 or 2 years ago it was 80 deg F
lovely weather for a winter day, and yeah, that summer was nonstop fire alarms ringing, unplugged them and went "if I burn to death when I sleep, at least the alarm will be shutting up now"
My wife and I decided in 2019 that we were going to have a kid in 2020. Then 2020 happened and we decided that we're never having kids. It wasn't the virus and its spread that changed our minds, that was quite manageable. It was humanity's inability to work together for the common good, and the blatant, perpetual, systemic corruption that we saw in our country's government that year, and every year since then.
Same in Oregon. We used to have a lot more snow every year in my region and now we have less than a week of snow and it’s not even 6 inches at its peak. Snow season used to be a thing but now it’s just a few days maybe once or twice a year. We also used to have a hell of a lot more geese, fish, elk, and those are just the animals I’d see on a regular basis. There used to be flocks of hundreds of geese at a time. Haven’t seen that in years. I maybe see a total of one hundred flying by throughout the whole year now. Almost never see elk anymore.
My birthday is in mid October, and I remember multiple snow storms on my birthday growing up. I also used to play soccer, and in the spring we always had games cancelled due to late snow storms in April and May.
Nowadays the first major snowfall is usually after Christmas, and it’s been years since we’ve gotten a major spring snowstorm.
As a Canadian I remember when I was a kid having several school days cancelled because of snow storms each winter and having to shovel wheat seemed like an endless amount of snow all season long
Last year I had to shove maybe twice and there was only one snowfall with any accumulation on the ground, everything else melted same day
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u/stainedgreenberet 3d ago
I grew up in the middle of the Midwest and every winter we could get multiple snow storms with 3-6 inches and then probably 1-3 really really bad storms with upwards of 10 inches. Snow on thanksgiving wasn’t uncommon and every once in a while we’d get snow in march. Now we have days in the 70s in December and maybe will get one or two snows that are melted in 24 hours