Yea, but that’s looking at it in a meteorological standpoint as opposed to a climatology standpoint: one cold snap or one snowstorm doesn’t change trends. Meteorology focuses on short term scale versus the latter focusing on a more long term scale and progress. There’s has been a of Trend of warming and we’ll see once La Niña cycles finish up (hopefully) whether we will revert back. If it remains in a more La Niña cycle indefinitely, then there climatological factors at play in other regions that end up affecting us here.

In general, even 10 years ago I remember far snowier winters guided by day drinking in college, building massive snowmen, dinning hall tray sledding, and all that, while now, I mostly see grass or if it snows, it’s gone real quick.

> exactly a year ago yesterday we had a massive snowstorm.

Massive? I don't know where you are, but I had that come up in my Facebook memories thing yesterday. It was a picture of my new snowblower, which I only used because I'd never tried it before. It was barely enough to bother and if I didn't want to test the machine out I probably would have done it almost as easily with a shovel. Scrolling through my pictures, there was barely any left at all a couple of days later. It was hardly more than a dusting.

Yeah last Jan/Feb the temps were consistently in the teens and below? And the year before that we had several huge snowstorms. This winter is extremely mild, but it hasn’t been like this for years.

shhhhh that will ruin their brain fog of the world is ending