>>12724896well hey if we didn't keep destabilizing the polar vortex, you and I wouldn't be feet deep in snow right now.
Do you remember your childhood? Do you remember it doing this crazy thing where it swaps back and forth between 60 degrees and 17 degrees every other week, with torrential rain between them? I sure don't.
The county schools had a few every year because backwoods, but the city school district had three (3) snow days in my entire K12, all of them were senior year of highschool, two of those back to back resulting in the most snow i'd ever seen at 4 inches. The university closing was unheard of. I've never built a snowman taller than two feet, and that was after rolling over and piling up and compacting all the fluff that was in the yard. Comedically pathetic looking things, same vibes as that charlie brown christmas tree. That's what a kentucky winter looks like. Every decade or so, a bad hailstorm in april that keeps all the roofing and auto glass guys in business.
But these last 6 winters have been increasingly abysmal, tshirt weather hot front for half a month, then a cold front smacks into it and drops half a foot of rain leaving everything a bitter sopping cold, then it ices over. Or if it was cold enough to snow and stick, we get several inches.
Honestly, the summers aren't much better. Its swimming in soup, then the soup becoming literal with flash floods, then back to 100% humidity scorchers.
The astute will realize this is the exact same weather pattern just affected by season. Exceptionally hot, cut with sudden massive coldfronts causing extreme precipitation, caused by airmasses that would normally have been stuck swirling amongst themselves all the way from santas workshop now as far as the gulf of mexico.
but of course no, instead the cry is "does this look like global warming to you"
to which the answer is yes, but "I don't need data or analysis or thinking, its obvious just look around you" seems to be the eternal rallying cry.
