How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born?

[bluemingidiot]

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/climate/how-much-hotter-is-your-hometown.html?action=click&module=Most%20Popular&pgtype=Homepage

[Woodpecker]

I’m too old, that doesn’t go back any further than born in 1960. Interesting though, back then it only reached 90 degrees, 7 days during the summer. Oh, we’ve had many more days than that this summer. Days that actually reached close to 100...it’s hot again today @ 91, no breeze off the water, ,blue skies and not a cloud in the sky.

[Deleted]

No small cities on the list. Noticed Portland is, big cities get hotter with all the pavement and buildings to hold heat in and breezes out. I also noticed that all through the 2020's it will be cooler there, then spike up per their predictions. Haven't seen a lot of difference here, just less logging and more fires. I would rather see more use of resources, more thinning, less burned....James

[comfortablynumb]

I don't need a chart or a web site to tell me that when I was very young, winters were long and having the front of the house buried in a snow drift was not uncommon. Xmas was always snowy, winters were long and often brutally cold.  I can't remember the last time I saw a snowdrift here of any size.  we used to have a drift fence put up every yr along the road to keep it from drifting on the house.


Over the decades it has changed. Now, its not uncommon to only have to shovel snow once or twice a winter during snowstorms and the snow never stays for more than a week. Some yrs we don't even have snow. One yr not long ago it rained all winter. The snow blower is run more for maintenance than snow blowing.

Often now the best we can hope for is for the mud to freeze and dry out. Sometime back in the early 80s something went wonky with the weather here. Its not only not winter in winter, all yr the weather is unpredictable. Its September and for the last week its been as dry as a bone and over 90F. Sometimes summer cones with no spring, or spring is long and chilly until late june.

Yes.. its hotter now.

[hermitjohn]

Havent been to state I was born in decades. But I have lived where I am since 1990. Used to get lot more snow and it would get cold enough long enough that a big pond would freeze over enough cattle could cross it. Now its rare to get accumulated snow and it melts quickly. Ice on the pond is just occasional light crust around shore in shallow areas. Heck just last decade things have changed enough to be noticable.

I think more than heat, what is more noticeable is more extreme weather more often. That 100 year flood happens every other year, that sort of thing. The atmosphere is warmer and more unstable more of the year.