When I first moved here(40 yrs ago) I had 4 feet of snow to dig out to get out of my driveway. During those years the lake ice would freeze over. Polar bear dip had not been conceived of yet (thank goodness)

During the last couple of winters there has been no snow. Warm enough to ride motorcycle on the roads in December and January. That is highly unusual.

. Pine Beetle infestations have increased because of no cold temperatures to kill the larvae off and keep the populations down.

Weather is changing.

This has been the warmest year on record where I live. Other than that, it's not that different from normal.

EDIT: Wow, it seemed like a very short and simple question, but Jim Z was too lazy to actually read it. Rather than actually read and answer the question (isn't that what YA is supposed to be about?) he chose to attack me for ACTUALLY answering the question.

He then rambles on and on, making up all sorts of things I didn't say, although he claims that I did. I neither mentioned carbon dioxide nor climate change in my answer.

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Siberia is synonymous with bitter cold, right? Not in 2014, so far.

In mid February, the world's coldest permanently inhabited town, Oymyakon, Russia, vaulted to a monthly record high of 9.5 degrees Fahrenheit. That may sound cold, until we mention the average high in mid February is 51 degrees below zero, according to Weather Underground's Christopher Burt.

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Pegminer might realize that California is not the world and even though it is full of weird people it hasn't experienced particularly weird weather. I have seen hotter times but this year was consistently nice due certainly to consistent patterns in the upper atmosphere that have next to nothing to do with our CO2 emissions. Last year Peg was trying to blame the drought on our CO2 emissions and I am confident that he will try to blame the heavy rains/snows that about to soak the Sierra. He will be careful to put in a qualifier but will then suggest that is due to our CO2 emissions. Weird weather is a statistical certainty with or without our CO2 emissions. What we have is Chicken Little looking for any change and trying to blame it on CO2.

Actually, increasingly strange weather in Minnesota originally sparked my interest in trends about 20 years ago, which lead to my interest in Climate Change. My history in the area goes back to 1959 and I started seeing what I considered Regional trends from 1993-2003 that were not year to year anomalies and continued through 2013. I'm still trying to figure out 2014. But my observations are supported by Temperate Zone boundary changes in my area. I don't get into the quasi-scientific arguments that are based in political ideology much and am skeptical of spending 6 trillion dollars a year (the latest quote of the projected cost for the next fifteen years to counter global warming from the IPCC) when we cannot yet quantify mankind's influence on climate. But I am strongly in favor of continuing weather/climate research as well as development of alternative energy for the potential multiple benefits they may present to society. My limitation is trying to study science without the formal education that would help, but I don't try to fool anyone else-or particularly myself-about being a "scientist" when my primary concerns are economic and geopolitical. I come here looking for information that will help me direct my independent study of weather and climate.

So yes, weather seems "a little off" in my neck of the woods, to put it mildly. And it isn't simply year to year variations in the weather, but long term trends that run counter to past weather patterns which have been also been observed by many people in the area who are far older than I am. I just want to know more about what is causing it, and I am not particularly interested in what the nasty conspiracy theorists claim is a communist plot or pictures of polar bears stranded on ice cubes accompanied by tearful voiceovers by celebrities....or political opinions disguised as "answers" to questions here which are not answers at all as much as they are rants. Although I note that I slipped in a rant or two myself here...oops. At least I managed to answer your question in the course of it.

This has been the warmest year on record where I live. Other than that, it's not that different from normal

This has been the warmest year on record where I live. Other than that, it's not that different from normal

This has been the warmest year on record where I live. Other than that, it's not that different from normal

This has been the warmest year on record where I live. Other than that, it's not that different from normal

I'm in Canada leaning against a palm tree sipping a Martini watching the ocean waves....

Sorry had a day dream.

This has been the warmest year on record where I live. Other than that, it's not that different from normal

This has been the warmest year on record where I live. Other than that, it's not that different from normal

I'm in Victoria BC and we're getting a lot of rain. It usually rains here at this time of year and in the past we would put it down to local weather. Thanks to alarmists I know now that if we get a lot of rain here it is due to climate change.

This has been the warmest year on record where I live. Other than that, it's not that different from normal

It's odd, because where I live the weather is wickedly cold, which is unusual! It has been bitterly cold in winter for the past few years, and yes, it seems completely abnormal.

We don't say that every year, but we say it often enough. It is nothing new.

Weird Weather

yes now a days we cant say its seasonal weather.... in fact its become random season.

were i stay currently it should be winter season but i fell like summer tooo hot terrible