Originally Posted by
genejockey
Yeah, and now there's this in addition to those, and exacerbating some of them. And it's early days, so far. I mean, I've lived in the Bay Area for 40 years, and it's only since 2018 that we've had days or weeks of wildfire smoke at hazardous levels, for example.
The reporting of things has changed and made us more aware of what's going on around us.
I've been in DFW since 1981. We've been bichin and moanin that we've had incredibly cold winters and incredibly hot summers recently "due to climate change."
Here are the ten coldest winters in DFW:
1. 1977-78: 39.5
2. 1904-05: 40.5
3. 1898-99: 41.1
4. 1978-79: 41.2
5. 1983-84: 41.4
6. 1963-64: 42.6
7. 1976-77: 42.8
8. 2009-10: 42.9
9. 1917-18: 43.1
10. 1911-12: 43.6
There is no mention of the Great Freeze of 2020 in there. In fact, only 1 of the last 22 years deserves mention.
There was a lot of bichin and moanin about how hot it's been this summer, but it hasn't come close to touching 1980.
We are now always hearing about ozone levels being at dangerous levels in the summer, but that has always been there it just wasn't measured or reported in 1981, for example.