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.
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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.