Is It Hotter Where You Live Now?

[macaroni]

Disclaimer-
1. If you want concise, to the point writing, then move on --avoid frustration.
2. If you want to be a high school English Teacher and grade and correct my writing, have fun but know that I don't give a shit anymore--LOL!

Weather Where You Live Now and Back Then?--
As a teen and young adult, I worked outside all day, each week (in D.C. as a gardener/landscaper hoeing weeds mostly and then later in construction as a laborer for carpenters, electricians, and finally brick layers--which was the on the whole the hardest and best paying of the three .

Earlier, as a kid, playing outside we got hot and drank from the garden hose and played in a sprinkler sometimes. Kick ball and whiffle ball in the street -- all I remember was fun, hot was just par for the cours. It was hot then. Not as hot as now? I don't know, I don't know shit.

I compared temps today on Weather Underground history to two locales near where I worked back then.
---nowadays 2 degrees cooler on ave. in Aug in D.C. 2022 than in 1978 (Nat'l Airport..."Reagan Int'l)
---nowadays 2 degrees cooler on ave. in Aug in Charleston, SC 2022 than in 1979 (maybe Parris Island was cooler than Charleston, but not with your palms on old tarmac or hot sand LOL--I couldn't find weather history for Parris Island)

Am I reading these numbers right??? Maybe I screwed up and my bifocals aren't helping LOL! Maybe they're the other way around??? LOL

Hot is hot. People died from heat then and now, I guess. Better news coverage now or just more alarming stuff with 24 hr news cycles? Maybe I've just become a wimp nowadays, along with some other folks? LOL

ps--carrying bricks and blocks and mixing mortar was tough & I weighed about 158 lbs back then

-- a little later, working at Marine Corps boot camp was much harder than laboring and I weighed 126.5 lbs then

life goes on....I'm know my Grandaddy worked from about 1935 to 1975 from before sun up 'til around dark, most of that without air conditioning--first picking cotton in fields, then sharecropping and finally farming a dairy--tough stuff, hot--i never once heard him complain about heat and he wore leather boots, long sleeve shirts and overalls Grandaddy was grateful and glad to be able to work, and being a field hand and then a sharecropper--he may have thanked the God Lord; he likely never knew he was privileged, though . But I know he knew hot weather, I just never heard him say one word about it as he worked in the barn he built. Wonder why???

Observation--I seem to feel cooler outside when I don't have time to sit and listen to NPR (which I love) go on about how hot it is now, or watch the boob tube weather pundits--'course I mow in the mornings just after sunup when the weeds finally grow and I carry double the weight around than I did as a young buck.

To all who've worked in hot places now or years back--any thoughts on your experiences working in heat...military guys serving from S.E. Asia then to folks more recently in the Sandboxes, guys in the oil fields and slush pits here and around the world? Oops--gotta dump my dottle and reload the Capstan )) hmm good (see, I'm rambling--and off the subject, of course I like poetry, which I don't always understand, do you? LOL)

 

[FurCoat]

I built houses back in the day so I've spent my fair share of days working outdoors. I will say that summers here in NC are much cooler now than back then. This year in particular was the mildest I've experienced since moving here in 1980.

 

[fireground_piper]

It’s different. The transition months aren’t as transitional as they used to be, the coldest lows of winter go on colder for longer and the warmer days of summer tend to be more plentiful. Not that any summer day is hotter specifically.

20 years ago I drove a vehicle without AC and either landscaped or framed houses during the summer without much thought to the heat. I walk around today and think how glad I am I never stayed in that industry because it can just be so miserable over time. Likewise in the winter, I never remember -10 or -20 lows but it's pretty much a given the past 7 or 8 years that we'll have a good stretch with some.

I've lived in the same town my entire life.

 

[AJL67]

When i was 5 yrs old the waves at the beach seamed HUGE, every single one of them!!!

If you want me to stay on topic, well my analogy is, otherwise leave the internet. =D

 

[Sobrbiker]

There’s billions to be made selling the scam that is climate change/green energy.

I’ll worry about rising sea levels when the über wealthy elitists trying to scare everyone into being controlled and pawns for their profit quit purchasing oceanfront mansions.

As to fluctuating temps, this ball of rock hurtling through space have been goin in and out of ice ages waayyy longer than our egocentric species has been self aware, and will be long after we’re gone.

 

[workman]

It's warmer here than it was when I was a kid in the 80's.
Old people recall very different weather than what we have now.
Sheepfarmers I speek to claim the seasons seem have moved a month or two.
We rarely have snow.
Since sometime in the 50's the seabird populations have been dropping to a point where they are now almost extinct.
I remember looking out from cliffs where there was such an abundance of birds that it seemed as if there were more birds in the skies than sky itself.
Now there are only a few.
There is no doubt in my mind that a change is going on.

 

[woodsroad]

I used to have to change my oil much more frequently. Now, not so much. I don’t know if that’s connected to ocean levels and growing oranges in Canada, but it concerns me.

By the way: Polar Bears are phenomenal swimmers.

 

[sablebrush52]

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and I would define the difference as many more 100 degree and hotter days than when I was a kid. Also, we didn’t have 100+ degree days in March or November and now we do. We used to get the occasional light snow and that went away for decades until last year when there was one day where there was a little bit of snow that melted off in a few hours.
I’ve been told by people in Ashland that summers have been getting hotter over the past 15 - 20 years.

 

[telescopes]

I have observed this. The blooming of the dogwoods has definitely changed over the 50 years that I can recall observing them. My crocus and daffodil blooming times are all backing up as well. Growing up, I never had a day over 101 degrees as a kid. Now, in Saint Louis and even Branson, this top of heat and beyond is becoming a yearly occurrence. I don't need a chart to notice the heat going up nor do I want to be frog in a pan of water on its way to boiling and never notice the changes.

 

[AJL67]

I used to have to change my oil much more frequently. Now, not so much. I don’t know if that’s connected to ocean levels and growing oranges in Canada, but it concerns me.

By the way: Polar Bears are phenomenal swimmers.

I feel bad for the Polar Bears because the ice shelf (sorry climate reactionaries) is actually growing.

NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses

A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.

www.nasa.gov

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

I don’t live near where I did the first 35 years of my life so really don’t want to speculate. I can’t claim to have noticed anything here in terms of a trend the last many years other than summers for a few years have been drier - but would have said that about winter after two years of not much and last winter, record levels of snow. Weather is what it is when I wake up.

 

[woodsroad]

I have no doubt that the climate is changing. The climate has been changing on Earth from Day One. The question is: Is human activity responsible in part or in full for any of the present-day climate shifts? That’s the important question, and one that needs to be investigated and answered without political bias and interference.

 

[prairiedruid]

My grandfather and father kept track of when we could start ice fishing at our local spot. Over 50 years of data and the average date has moved 3 weeks later in the year. As a kid there were times we could ice fish before Thanksgiving but that hasn't happened in over 15 years. We still get cold snaps every year but the average night time temperature in the winter has been warming. Take it for what it's worth...

 

[VDL_Piper]

@AJL67 this explains why our weather seems to be getting worse. Antarctica influences all our weather here in Tasmania.

NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses

A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.

www.nasa.gov

 

[telescopes]

To begin with, the earth's overall climate is literally a hot mess to deal with. No one snapshot nor any set of studies and definitively provide us the a specific answer to what looks to be a moving target when it comes to the question of what are the impacts people are having on the earth's climate.

However, a much clearer answer is available to the question, "What impact are people having on the air we breath, the water we drink, and the toxins we are putting into the environment?"

I believe responding to the more immediate environmental questions that I just stated would most likely make the question of impacting the climate a moot point.

For the life of me I am not sure why any one would argue that the are in favor of more environmental pollution.

 

[telescopes]

My grandfather and father kept track of when we could start ice fishing at our local spot. Over 50 years of data and the average date has moved 3 weeks later in the year. As a kid there were times we could ice fish before Thanksgiving but that hasn't happened in over 15 years. We still get cold snaps every year but the average night time temperature in the winter has been warming. Take it for what it's worth...

This has been my observation as well over the last half century. Rabbit hunting after the first frost is one indicator. I would say your observation that the seasons have moved by about three weeks over the last 50 years to be spot on with my experience. Of course, the occasional late, early, exceptionally cold, and heavy snowy winter occur from time to time.

 

[VDL_Piper]

Well we have 200 plus years of private weather records here on this farm and and there is no upward movement of temperature. We are getting wetter though which isn't helping given we already have 1500mm or 60 inches of annual rainfall.

 

[Servant King]

Where I am, it has definitely been getting colder overall, during the seven years I have lived here. More precipitation too.

All I have to add otherwise is this: it only does one a tremendous disservice to try and obtain any kind of truthful statistics from the media.

This thread ain't long for this world...

 

[telescopes]

For clarity sake, I have no political agenda, neither right or left. I tend not to believe anything I read, and even less likely to believe what I hear.

The weather, for most of human history, was one of the few topics you could discuss without disrupting the family dinner.

 

[AJL67]

For clarity sake, I have no political agenda, neither right or left. I tend not to believe anything I read, and even less likely to believe what I hear.

The weather, for most of human history, was one of the few topics you could discuss without disrupting the family dinner.

Divide, divide, divide.