This is a great example of weather and not climate. There are always one-off weather anomalies like snow one day in May or a 72 degree F day in December, but it’s not good when these happen frequently.
Globally, the trends get warmer and warmer every year. Just because there was a warm December day 40 years ago doesn’t really mean anything. What means something is these days keep happening more and more everywhere, and this has long term implications for everything. It won’t be our extinction event but as other have said, we won’t be living in the same world we are now.
I’m not from the area, so I’m unsure if there are severe micro-climates in or around Chicago. Maybe, even, you and your neighbor are acclimated to very cold weather conditions. It’s irrelevant either way, as we would all be better served by not conflating weather with climate, which OP’s post is also doing.
Because Chicago proper gets lake-effect cooling when the weather is warmer, and I was ~50 miles west of the lake, it was considerably warmer where I was.
I rode my brand new bicycle home on Christmas Day
19831982, and a neighbor was washing his car in shorts in his driveway.This is a great example of weather and not climate. There are always one-off weather anomalies like snow one day in May or a 72 degree F day in December, but it’s not good when these happen frequently.
Globally, the trends get warmer and warmer every year. Just because there was a warm December day 40 years ago doesn’t really mean anything. What means something is these days keep happening more and more everywhere, and this has long term implications for everything. It won’t be our extinction event but as other have said, we won’t be living in the same world we are now.
I mean, the Southwest exists as do other places that don’t get snow regularly.
Chicago.
Christmas Day in 1983 was a record low for Chicago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpT0vG56ADM
https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/il/chicago/KMDW/date/1983-12-25
I’m not from the area, so I’m unsure if there are severe micro-climates in or around Chicago. Maybe, even, you and your neighbor are acclimated to very cold weather conditions. It’s irrelevant either way, as we would all be better served by not conflating weather with climate, which OP’s post is also doing.
Oh! Maybe it was 1982? Been a lot of years.
Well that certainly would make more sense! I’m a cold weather person myself, but shorts in -5F is a bit much for me.
Because Chicago proper gets lake-effect cooling when the weather is warmer, and I was ~50 miles west of the lake, it was considerably warmer where I was.
My grandmother’s chair has wheels, hence she is a bicycle
The number of wheels your grandmother’s chair has does not indicate what your grandmother is.
And I would bet that your granmother’s chair has more than two wheels, which would make it a wagon.