Public sentiment is deeply concerned and alarmed about the health impacts related to climate change, with many personal experiences shared about deteriorating environmental conditions and increasing health risks. There is widespread anxiety over governmental inaction and accountability, leading to calls for urgent systemic changes to address these critical issues.

Governmental bodies

Environmental organizations

Healthcare systems

Talk to anyone who has been gardening for a while.

Tomatoes go in 2 weeks earlier.

But the crop is way more variable. Wind, rain, drought. Just no way to plan for the chaos.

Russell_W_H

Runner/triathlete here and I've been doing these endurance events for years. In recent years more races have been getting shortened , rescheduled, or altered in other ways due to heat. I've been at races where they've moved the start time up as late as the day before the race. I've been at races where they've shortened the time between start corrals so that racers get out on the course faster. And oh sooooo many of them have been black flagged while the event was actually in progress: Las Vegas marathon in 2019, Peachtree Road Race last year, Disney Marathon on more than one occasion in recent memory.

  
If things keep deteriorating at their current rate, I won't be surprised if we see numerous summer and fall events moved to earlier in the day or even to a different time of year.

DeadMoneyDrew

My girl friend and I dated during Summers in the Tampa region in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  One of our favorite dates was to head to Clearwater Beach. We would not go on days when the temperature hit 90°.  That happened once in a while. 

We got married and lived away from Florida over 40 years, mostly in Northwest Montana and in Maine. After retiring, my wife wanted to go live closer to her brother and sister. Since Winters in Maine had been getting warmer and the snow quality for snow skiing had been getting pretty bad, especially from 2010 on, I finally acquiesced and we moved back to the Tampa area in 2019.  Most of what’s left of my family is also in Florida. 

The Summers in Florida are far hotter, longer  and more humid than when we left. Our Clearwater Beach dates would be zero now during Summer, as daytime highs go into the 90s every day. 

This year has been remarkable. We hit 90° on May 6th and have hit the 90s every day since except for two cloudy rainy days when the highs were 88° and 89°.  June through today,  the 6th of August, all daytime highs so far have been in the 94° to 99° range. On the 19th of July we hit 101.3°F. And we live about 7 miles inland from the Nature Coast about 50 miles north of Tampa and Clearwater. No large metropolis here so no heat island effect. 

Yet, I won’t work outside from around 9:30 am to around 5 or 6 in the evening. I don’t know how anyone can. I ride my bike or jog very early in the mornings, starting around sunrise. I mow my yard at sunset, mostly because dew wets the grass and it doesn’t fully dry till after it’s too hot to mow. Mowing during the heat and humidity of the day really stresses and sets the grass back, plus it stresses me! Last year, our Summer heat and high humidity lasted well into October. 

Those are just the changes here in Florida. We have experienced others. We’ve watched rain become common during the Winter season up north. Enough rain to completely wash out feet of snow depth on the ground in temperatures near 60° in January and February. 

We’ve seen glaciers disappear in Glacier Park and even in Europe. I was in the Air Force, stationed right next to the Alps in southern Germany from 1974 to 1979 and loved Summer snow skiing on glaciers that are no longer there.  

In Maine we went from not ever needing A/C in Summer in 1995 to having to install a window A/C to use a few times during Summer by 2002 because it was too warm to sleep without it. By the time we left Maine in 2019, we were using A/C just about the entire Summer season. Nighttime lows were not cooling below the lower 70s, limited by ever higher dew points and nasty tropical humidity levels. 

We’ve seen large alarming changes in all the climate regions we have lived in.

SnooStrawberries3391

If it isn’t on fire then it’s flooding. Absolutely terrifying!

Informal-Chemical-79

The most poignant/awful from today was driving past neighborhood blocks full of colored ribbons people hung to mourn all the summer camp kids from that area killed in the floods last month.  (Central TX).

I’m an ecologist that has done formal research related to aspects of this topic, so there are a million other things I notice too, but they all don’t wrench my gut quite like the above one.

RobHerpTX

I recall driving to the lake at night in the 1990’s. We had to stop the car THREE TIMES to clean bugs off the windscreen there was so many. Did the same drive about a year or two ago and barely hit a handful of bugs.

KriegerBahn

Everything’s on fire, literally (Colorado)

bascule

I'm in the upper Midwest. The most obvious changes we are seeing are annual smoke from Canadian wildfires, and increasing frequency of dangerous high-wind storms including derechos.

MERTx123

Spent most of my life in northern New England. Here are a few of the changes.

1. AC is now required. Growing up, hitting the 90s was a rare newsworthy event. Now, we experience multiple heat waves every summer, with heat indexes reaching well into the triple digits.

2. Insects are gone. Growing up, a nighttime drive on a warm summer evening meant emptying half your windshield wiper fluid. Going out into grassy fields and catching lightning bugs was a thing. Butterflies were all over the place. I have a meadow behind my house and several gardens. I haven't seen a lightning bug in a decade, and butterflies are so rare that when I see them, I grab my camera.

3. Birds are vanishing. Growing up, birds were all over the place. Even in winter. I have books that list the common bird species from decades ago, many of which you'll be lucky to see a few of in the peak season these days.

4. Winter festivals on the lake. When I was growing up, they would have a winter festival on the lake near where I lived. People would go out and shovel off the ice, put up stalls, and people would play games, ice skate, etc. The last time they did that was 20 years ago. The lake barely freezes over anymore.

5. Droughts. Summers used to bring summer thunderstorms. Over the years, especially the last ten years, thunderstorms have decreased in frequency while droughts have increased in frequency, if not severity.

6. Winters. Growing up, the ground was white by Thanksgiving and stayed white until April. We've had several years in a row now where we don't even get our first snowfall until Christmas or later. Cold rain or rain/slush is the most common type of precipitation now. Brown winters instead of white.

Xyrus2000

So 50m here. 

I grew up on an island in the Caribbean. We had no hurricanes of note for 84 years. 

We got the FIRST class 5 in 1989..... We had another in 2017... And more than a few in between. We also have had multiple years with more than 40 inches above normal rainfall, and 3 years of class 4 drought. All since 1989. 

Did I mention I have a FARM. It's like every year I just roll the dice. 

So yeah I really love climate change.

truemore45

This year we had one week of snow. In last 5 years same or less. In 1960-1990 average was 2-3 months of snow. 
Ask my father in law who saw this during his lifetime: “it’s natural”. No it’s not.

madTerminator

I can't get insurance for my place except liability. 10 years ago I could have good vegetable gardens. We get rains still but the heat after is so intense that seeds won't sprout and the ground turns to virtual concrete. About half of the streams in a nearby forest are intermittent or dry now. They were full of trout 20 years ago. There is no longer a mix of insects. No moths or butterflys, few beetles. Just flies and millions of grasshoppers. I have not seen a single bee of any species this year. The only praying mantis that are around are brown rather than green. There are no bird nests in their usual places this year.

The end is near

Smart-Difficulty-454

My lungs still hurt from the 2021 fire.  


We had black skies for awhile.  We also had red skies for a week or two .

mrroofuis

Nurseries are starting to carry climate-adapted trees from climate analogs to the south.

DanoPinyon

Where are you excactly? Im the Caribbean and our coral reefs are rapidly deteriorating.

OkAsk1472

The not so little creek on our getaway property in Washington cascade foothills  is running low in the summer year after year lower and lower.

fecundity88

Cemeteries in Leeville, Louisiana, are completely under water. So there’s that.

DizzySlide6436

fireflies everywhere at night during the summer when i was little.

xrp_oldie

It's been storming almost daily here in Romania, leading to floods. The air has never been this humid.

[deleted]

Summers used to be around 23-25 degrees with frequent rains. Now it tends to be over 30 for weeks.  It sucks when you have to wait until 20:00 to have a walk.

Also there is no snow in winters anymore. I remember making snow tunnels, snow forts, snowmen and frequent snowball fights in my childhood. I also remember ice skating on a nearby lake. Now we are lucky if there is a bit of snow for three consecutive days. This also means there is drought almost every spring.

I'm in phoenix and grew up here since 2. It is hotter, but the impact so far hasnt been direct to me.

We have had a 100-year water rule. But I'm still thinking I should get out of dodge before the 30s. My family, friends and work are all here so that would be a huge impact.

mrpointyhorns

I've got an orchard of 630 odd trees and this year in the UK we've had so little rain during spring and summer that the apples are half the size they should be which makes pressing them more difficult.  I've been doing this for over 10 years now and this is the worst year so far.

whatthebosh

Home insurance rates here in the midwest have doubled. Insurance adjuster says he sees so-called 25 year shingles not lasting more than 15 years, due to heavier storms and more hail damage. I had commercial property and the insurance went sky high.

Henri_Dupont

I personally live through Hurricane Helene. We never thought something this bad would happen in the mountains. Communities are still rebuilding and the average thunderstorm now has flash flooding. Things are not normal.

Witness-

less bugs, more invasive plants and animals, (wildfires) 🤦‍♀️

elrey_hyena

Air quality impacted from wildfires. Summers are now unbearably hot - it's sad to say this is a "good" year. Family house burned down a few years back.

CarbonQuality

Fewer insects, more frequent and out of control forest fires and smokey air days, less precipitation, less snow pack affecting skiing/snowboarding and hydro power, increased cost of produce due to unpredictable weather and crop damage.

matdex

Living in south India , everyone wants to live in a city called Bangalore where climate is favourable. Day by day the city is getting choked in every aspect, because of influx of domestic migrants. Housing rent is no more affordable.

youagainbro

I'm in Northeast Indiana. We now have Sandhill Cranes and pelicans on my lake year-round. That's not just unusual, it's downright creepy. They've destroyed the ecosystem. 

Pelicans!

Maynard078

In New England, the trees still go to skeleton in winter, every leaf falling... but... weakly, with no intense burst of vivid color. The soft, bright snow doesn't arrive for the season, just a few drops of water and ice, a dusting here and there that's gone in hours.  It's a frozen, grey hardscape, full of depressing sharp edges. No early morning runners with headlamps. 

The roads and towns have flooded all summer for 2-3 years. The sailing is unpredictable.

In the Pacific Northwest, from Monterey Bay through Puget Sound and up to BC, there is chaotic swirling up of heavy wind, breaking trees and roofs. The sherbet skies from constant firefighting. 

The chilly puffs of Alaskan clouds marching down to the beach in California, right in the middle of summer, rather than winter into spring. The drinking water is brackish, calcified and getting saltier. The tornadoes and hurricanes are stopping in as well, down from Kansas and up from Florida. The tsunamis are joining the party. 

There is no salmon fishing in California for 3 years now because the ranchers stole the water and dropped the water table while overheating the water left with careless excess runoff. 

Friends sciencing the arctic are reporting green grass and  flowers instead of ice and snow. They peeled off their specialized insulated clothing and worked with bare hands. 

It's greedy out there. There is no migration potential for most of the population. The topsoil is giving way to erosion, the bees are ill, ants weak, butterflies missing.

So, gather water, plant deeper, watch more carefully, care more for community, sketch wild edibles and share where you can. Be kind, there is No rewind.

Electrical-Bed8577

The almost total annihilation of insects. 20 years ago if you drove anywhere in the country your car would be covered in dead bugs (Australia). Now you’ll get a handful in a 10 hour drive. It’s terrifying.

ConfinedTiara

Massive amounts of rain in short period of time. Used to not worry about flash floods all that often not anymore.

v_x_n_

30 here, Northeast US

I remember winter used to start on October 26ish exactly. Like clockwork we'd get a huge blizzard every year. There were 4 years in a row that Halloween was cancelled, and tiny me *hated* the governor with a vengeance. We'd always use up our snow days, Christmas was guaranteed white, and we'd end up staying in classes late into June because it just snowed *so much*. 

Now? We haven't had a white Christmas in about 6 years. Schools are finishing early because they don't use all of their snow days. I can't remember the last time we had a blizzard. Or lost power from the snow. Instead we get mild snow that melts or rain that freezes over at night. Winters have become just "dead tree season, mildly wet"

Aalleto

Awkward_Forever9752

Air quality is horrible, especially during the summer months

Far-Anywhere-2297

It’s not just climate, a century of clearcut logging probably plays as big of a role, but the fires. Oh god the fires. I moved to another province in no small part because of the fires. 

Growing up in Calgary I can’t say I have any specific memory of wildfire smoke. But starting around 2018, the city would be choking under thick blankets of wildfire smoke for weeks of every summer. Year after year it just got worse. Walking to work through thick blankets of smoke that you could feel robbing you of years of your life with every breath got to be too much. 

We moved to the pacific coast. Still possible to get fire smoke here, but 90+% of the time the wind is coming straight from the ocean so it’s *nothing* like it’s become in Alberta.

augustinthegarden

Live in South-east Queensland in Australia - we had a cyclone earlier in the year even though we’re south of the cyclone zone.

HP_Brew

As a Xennial I remember road trips were always associated with the windshield being covered in bugs and requiring cleaning at fairly regular intervals. This was commonplace most of the time (other than winter.)

I used to go to stay with my grandmother every summer, she lived a bit outside of Glacier National Park. I got fairly familiar with many of the local sites. The last time I went was 2014 to show my son. Many of the glaciers are unrecognizable due to how much they've deteriorated. 

Where I grew up in E WA. wells keep running dry as people drain the aquifer. I moved away years ago though seeing the writing on the wall.

I now live in the rainforests. Things are not changing for the worse very much so far. We did have some dry spells (relative to the usual rainfall) but in general this area is expected to get wetter.

CookieRelevant

Not much in my area.  Years of less rain or more rain than average.  Some hotter years, more years are actually moderate.  

We do have less days of bad air quality in summer.  Don’t know if that’s because of better emissions or old NG power plants phasing out.  Used to be huge peaker NG power plant close to my house.  Ran all 70s-90s.  Closed in 2003.  Definitely see less haze-smoke in that part of town…

Substantial-Ad-8575

I live in the Midwest. In my childhood, I never saw an armadillo, just read about them. Now they're everywhere. They came up from the south

C-ute-Thulu

500 year rains every 5 years.  I have been working in multiple projects to manage flash floods around my property and stop water into my basement. 

The smoke from Canada’s wildfires. My family is asthmatic and our home has high end air filtering

ThisIsAbuse

Hi, I’m a hobby gardener. Some of my plants don’t go completely dormant anymore over winter. I’m Michigan, USDA zone 6a, where they uhhh should…
I also have some gladiolus bulbs that made it thru the winter unscathed, which is odd af. I should also add the heat has increased to being hotter for longer. My zinnias droop even with water bc it’s so hot. We don’t have much of a rainy “season” it’s dicey with rain really when it used to be a spring thing. The storms are stronger when they come. There’s lots changing…and I keep adding more. I have been planting my annuals earlier every year…and they last longer every year.

ButterflyButtHose

I remember growing up being able to stand on a snowbank and look into my second floor windows. Now, each season that passes we're lucky if we get a foot of snow, and the amount seems to be decreasing every year

Aceflyer10

I used to grow a lot of onions. Too many and too heavy straight line winds every spring now. Blows over the stalks and kills them.

Fossilhog

Just looking at summer: fewer insects during summer (this one could be due to chemical pesticides/herbicides being available with no limitations to anyone with cash to pay for it), longer average heatwaves, higher temperatures overall year over year, actually needing A/C in my home to not get sick from the heat, and once or twice a decade wildfires are now annual events.

tek9jansen

In the UK we have had more flooding. I’m about to buy a house where floods won’t get to me but still I think it will impact my parents. (This is also where I realised climate change is already here and not in 100 years)

Maccy1232

For me, the main impacts I see are the loss of severe cold spells and non-marginal snowfall in the UK. Heatwaves are also much worse, and the “average British summer” weather pattern, which is average temperatures with frontal rain and sun in-between is become uncommon now, with high pressure ridging from the south lasting longer and becoming the new norm, bringing hotter temperatures

Lucky-Opportunity395

Uk here, when I was a kid season's were seasons, winter was COLD, wet and snow settled. Now summers are mostly dry with the odd thunderstorm and the other seasons might aswell not exist. It's just the same mild muggy weather the rest of the year. Reminds me of highlander 2 without the red sky. I miss actual weather dammit.

Southern_Shirt8487

Lots of smoke down in Minnesota. We now have regular periods of bad air quality throughout the summer months because of wild fires in the north.

Jagura73

I’m seeing less rain in my area. In the month of July we got less than an inch of rain when we usually get 3in. August is shaping up to be the same way according to the forecast. And we’re in the Great Lakes area right along the jet stream and usually get storms coming right up from the gulf or the Midwest. 

Last year was the same way (Got almost no rain from July-October!) and almost everyone’s wells started going dry in my township. We also had a ton of large brush fires that kept reigniting and made firefighters work extremely hard to put them out; This was made more difficult because idiots around here see a burn ban and they start yelling about their “freedoms” and say shit like “you just need to use common sense”. When everything is dry and you try to burn cardboard boxes or whatever it is that Cletus is throwing in the burn pile, all it takes is a little gust of wind and those embers are flying. And that’s how you get multiple acres burned.

SpectrumWoes

A few years ago I ran outside every pre-dawn morning in the tropics. We had our first summer from hell three years ago and it's been the same ever since. Have to train inside on a treadmill now. 

I seem to stay inside more in the summer due to excessive heat warnings and wildfire smoke warnings.  Fall is longer and hotter.  Winter is a mix bag with only a few good days for skiing.  Springs is long and wet with frequent flooding events.  Ticks and mosquitoes carrying disease are multiplying.

Yet the majority of voters put a bunch of ignoramuses in charge who are hell bent on accelerating climate change.

EnvironmentalRound11

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I read an article yesterday that it has started to no get cold get cold enough in the winter in Japan and it has effected the cherry trees. They need the cold winters to blossom.

jackparadise1

I remember summers could be horribly dreary and rainy, and now they are mostly sunny and warm.


The trade-off is that winters are milder so snow is more uncommon. Which makes it more dark and dreary in winters instead.


Stockholm, Sweden.

Persistant_eidolon

Northern Italy, 60. When I was a kid, we had snow every winter, now to see some snow you must go to the Alps, it completely disappeared from the plains.

Marc_Op

It doesn't snow here anymore. Only changed over like 12 years, too.

Cakeportal

33/M/UK, birthday in the middle of October. I have a lot of memories of it being cold as a kid, with bonfire night, Halloween etc surrounding it. These days it just.. isn't.

During my fresher's week in October 2011 there was a heatwave. Surrounded by loads of people you didn't know, drinking in fancy dress and the air was warm outside in the evening. Felt like being abroad or something

thelaughingman_1991

When it rains now it is exactly as the scientist predicted.  Deluge after deluge. Use to have maybe a couple uncomfortable weeks in the summer, (Vermont) now we’re using air conditioning a lot.
Winters are much warmer, not as much snow. The constant wind is noticeable also.

DryToe1269

This winter the Chesapeake Bay was almost frozen solid.

Enough-Ad3083

I grew up and still live in the Philadelphia area. I was going to say that I remember more snow as a kid in the 70s and 80s but when I looked at the actual data I found that the AVERAGE snowfall hasn’t changed but the VARIABILITY has with wilder year to year swings and more extreme years now (i.e. very little or very much snow compared with the average).

egghutt

My home in North America is burning, my home in the Pacific is drowning.

Shopping-Known

In the US midatlantic. Our seasons have been entirely off kilter for years.

Summer seems to start earlier and end later. Spring sometimes doesn't happen at all or is very brief. Then we get like a perma-fall into the next summer. Haven't had a real snowstorm in years and as a kid we'd get at least a couple good ones every year. Now, we get like 40°F most of the winter with a couple bad cold snaps down to like 0°F, but consistently dry.

Now it seems like our rainy month is late april and early may vs late march and early april. Also October is still hot every year.

We get tornadoes here annually now when for the first 20 years of my life there were no tornadoes in my general area.

Chuckychinster

in the northeast United States. The rivers and lakes used to freeze over in the winter. Everyone would go iceskating. The police would drive across the ice and after that it was open to public if the squad car didnt fall through lol. 

that hasnt happened for over a decade now. It used to drop below 32 degrees then stay there for the whole winter. somewhere between 20 - 32. Now we have the constant rubber bands where its 65 one week and negative 5 the next. The ice never has enough time to thicken.  

  
:(

Scallywag1680

kittygirl14

Where I am from (Southern Taiwan) we almost broke record amounts of rainfall within a week last week just by seasonal winds.

It’s unprecedented in a way it’s the only record in top five amount of rain measured locally without it being rainfall brought by a typhoon, also the first time in my life to get a day off just because of rain.

Dubious_Bot

My livelihood depends on how cold the winters get here as maple sap will freeze at night and flow when things thaw during the day and I've seen pretty significant changes over just the period of a few years. the sugaring season is shorter and is now a winter thing insead of a spring because spring isn't cold enough anymore.

maybeafarmer

I'm from Houston and I lost a home to Hurricane Harvey. Also, my wife and I have chosen not to have children, in part, due to the climate crisis. I now live in the countryside in nature and I see the damage that drought does to the land. Also the damage that goes and sheep can do to land when they aren't properly managed.

merikariu

More haze in the sky from wildfires, and less snow during winter 

Aromatic-Crab9974

Im an ornithologist and the birds and plants are all fucked everything is out of wack. Nothing knows when it is anymore we've got birds migrating a month late and trees are producing fruit 2 months early. Also the spiders are getting bigger and more aggressive i dont feel like anyone else is talking about the spiders

lightskinloki

I remember being able to stay outside all day long in the summer without risking heat stroke.

I remember not NEEDING AC.

I remember snow about once every three years in town. And year round on the surrounding mountains.

I remember skiing ads in the fall and spring.

I remember rivers good enough for fishing where now there are only seasonal washes.

I remember forest fires in southern California and Arizona where there aren't even trees anymore.

I remember when Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Canada were considered so wet and cold that we never thought they could have forest fires.

Dangerous-Bit-8308

I’ve lived in the SW for 29 years. We used to have substantial snowfall in the winters. We had a dh ski area. I used to XC ski and snowshoe in the winter because the trails were under snow, and couldn’t be ridden on my mountain bike.

Now, the ski area is closed, and I ride trails all year ‘round.

30 in the midwest. I studied geology and environmental resource conservation in college. The predictions we learned about 10 years ago are unfolding in front of my eyes. More frequent, violent storms. Water shortages. Infrastructure failure. Property damage. 

I wish climate change could be discussed in a mature way without political rage. I find that people often get defensive and start spouting off things like, "The earth has gone through climate shifts before," or "Other countries produce more pollution than mine." 

Something I've noticed that scares me is the ticks. There are way more, and their dormancy period is much shorter. It doesn't get cold enough for them to die off anymore. I follow some camping groups on FB. I was berated by a member who asked why there were more ticks and how to prevent them. He called me a stupid liberal and typed a paragraph about what a brainwashed loser sheep I was. The winter tick infestations are so severe that moose calves are dying from anemia and blood loss. The diseases they carry are causing massive health issues to humans and animals. They are also spreading to new locations.

Atomic_Ash182

I don't live in the place where I was born, anymore. I missed the trees, the wildlife, and the fresh air...I have shared my story, and am actively involved in doing what I can to mitigate the environmental impacts of climate change in my day-to-day life, now. No one can fire me, because no one has hired me to do it.

ReportMuch7754

Native plant gardener (as well as veggies), a lot of our native plants had a “mini spring” in late fall due to warm weather which caused them to deplete their energy stores. A number of them died or are stunted. Doesn’t bode well.

bekrueger

The now annual smoke and haze from the Canadian wildfires every summer.

Pristine_Fail_5208

.I live on the outskirts of Berlin, and when I go for walks in my area or hikes in Brandenburg, I often come across places where Google Maps shows a small river or lake – but in reality, it's almost completely dried up. It feels kind of dystopian to see dried-out reeds with no water, especially when I look at photos from a few years ago showing a decent amount of water.

The fields around here also turn yellow basically at the beginning of summer. This year we had more rain than in recent years, so they’re green again for now—but probably only temporarily. I’m originally from Hungary, and the situation there is even worse. When I was a kid, I rarely saw dry yellow weeds – now they’re basically everywhere, completely changing the landscape. Extreme storms are also happening regularly now.

I seriously don’t understand how anyone can still deny climate change.

PresentationFar3334

Some glaciers I climbed as a kid are now gone. Others are much smaller. 

Wildfires are far worse. Much larger and more frequent, over a far longer fire season. "Smoke season" is now a thing, with hazardous air warnings often keeping us indoors just when we normally spend every waking minute outside.

Due to rising wildfire risk, property insurance rates are going sky high. Many neighbors have been cancelled and I may be next. Insurance costs are turning vacation cabins and condos into preserves of the wealthy.

Splenda

Oregon's southernmost glacier, Lathrop Glacier, melted in 2015 and has not returned. We had a week of 100° temperatures the first week of May in 2017, and that was my eye opener. I've lived here since 1988, and the summers usually range with 83° and occasionally a sprinkle during the summer. Now it's regularly in the 90s and so dry that the woods close down completely for weeks. 
The insects are fewer, birds are fewer, and trees scorch under the summer sun. We've gone up to a 10a zone from a 8b.

GoingGray62

In Chicago the weather has been much hotter and much more humid in summer for several consecutive years, getting warmer over time, and really all year round. Noticing the nightly low temperatures keep getting hotter. I used to be able to get cool air in the house in the AM in summer and it would keep relatively cool, no more. Ac is needed much more often. 
 Also, no snow. Snow sports stores around us are closing shop 😢. 
Our city’s ice rink is being repurposed. 
If winter does show up, the winter event is severe, short lived. And, a lot of our neighbors moved to the area to escape their former area because of climate change. 

Pristine-Promotion

Colorado here - there used to be a true "fire season" but there isn't anymore. My town was burnt down a few years ago and it happened December 30th. No one would ever imagine a fire taking out a town in the middle of winter. From July - October it's just smoke and extreme heat, and I have anxiety anytime I leave my pets at home during a really windy day.

_brittleskittle

I live in Southern Europe. Most days between July and August you need to be in an indoor room with A/C. At least between midday and 6pm. 

Also bees and wasps are way more aggressive, but no idea if that’s related to climate change.

zoumbou7

It’s way more common to hear people who lost their homes, or know someone personally who has, to natural disasters. I was living in Northern California for over 20 years and within just a 5 year span from 2015-2020 there were so many fires closer to home. I developed severe allergies and asthma that it became too hard for me to live comfortably enough. 
So then I moved across the country to NC where my best friend had been living. Every time I visited, it was such a relief to be around greenery and lakes and streams and rain. I bought my first house in 2022 here. It was destroyed 2 yrs later, last year, to hurricane Helene. People that lived there, even just in the neighborhood, said they never saw anything like that in the 50+ yrs or so they’ve lived there.  I am still dealing with the aftermath. I am still paying mortgage on it. There are never enough resources to be living a secure life anymore. I’m turning 50 this year. I don’t see an end to this. And definitely not to more “unprecedented” disasters where they weren’t expected to happen.

marsroughrider

The Appalachian Mountains fell apart, destroying my home in a landslide, killing multiple friends and relations and I lived without water, electricity, and basic necessities, shitting in a bucket, for half a year, during a plague.  I was still working as a psychologist and volunteering search and rescue, so because I was a psychologist they kept making me tell parents when they found their children's corpses. 


I passed out repeatedly from malnutrition and starvation because even with donated food you can't cook it, the air was flammable from the coal dust, propane and natural gas leaks, so we were living on what few MREs we can get. 


That was in 23 and I still have a pallet of rice I'm eating on that some well meaning idiot gave me. I appreciate it, but you know what would go great with this shitton of dry rice?  Water and heat. 


Thank you to all the people who thought it through and brought things like water, MREs, vaccines, shower trucks and mobile laundry units. Those of us who survived are alive because of your kindness. 

Acceptable-Remove792

Lived in Houston till tropical storm Alisson flooded our home, office and totalled the car. So. Moved up into the Hill Country in Austin only to realize, during 2011 drought, that they had a serious water problem. So, again.  Moved to nicer wetter location, at least for now, and, above all, outta Tejas!

Velocipedique

Yes, wildfire smoke is now a weather season, and evacuation and/or home loss a serious risk.

Polyxeno

Oh yeah!...the changes in Iowa and Washington are impossible to miss. Flooding, heat, high winds, seasons, local species dieoffs, massive infrastructure changes, now necessary grid resiliency changes, growing zone changes, species range shifts, regional comp planning, thunderstorms, wildfires, smoke, etc. It's impossible to miss. People saying otherwise,  are disconnected from reality on the ground for other reasons.

ClimateWren2

I'm an old guy living on a flood prone East Coast barrier island.  I've seen no change in my 56 years here.  If anything, thanks to all the tools at our disposal I worry about flooding a lot less than the past.  I now know days in advance when I'll need to move my cars.

Confident-Staff-8792

I was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Pacific on an island called Palau. It was a two-year program. I met a island girl and stayed an additional 8 years. Over the last 21 years we've run a company which provides services across the Pacific, which has enabled us to take regular trips into Palau and the rest of the region. We've witnessed the affects of rising sea levels impact coral reefs, inundated garden areas for local foods such as taro. The Marshall Islands competed a 50-mile concrete wall around the entire island of Majuro to project from rising seas. In a recent visit I was told about 10+ years ago they would get a king tide about once every five years. A king tide is a large wave that hits the ocean side of the island and flows across the atoll emptying into the lagoon. They are saying it's now happening 4-or-5 times a year. The small islands of our world are on the front line of climate change.

Reg73071

I live in Rochester NY, which is on some list for how dramatically it warmed up since 2015.

When I was a kid it snowed on Halloween sometimes. Now it rarely snows on Christmas. 
And instead of having a consistent freeze it melts and freezes over and over causing really thick layers of ice on the walkways, and giant puddles that don't drain because all the snow hardens.

And what I really really hate, is people talking about how nice the weather is. It's way too hot in the summer now, but sure? Icy-Rainy December, I love it.

No_Secretary2079

East of San Francisco. The winter no longer freeze. Maybe we get 36 Fahrenheit. Growing up I used to see 28 Fahrenheit.

ThoughtFox1

Ask the fisherman too. We're slowly cooking like Al Gore said. Hitting temps in Florida I've never seen before.

Longshanks2021

On our regular journey to visit our son and family in St Louis (we live in Kansas City),by way of I 70, we've begun seeing more and more Armadillo! That is quite unusual for that species to be this far north.

kccatfish66

* Outdoor skating season delayed generally 2 weeks vs pre-2000. 2022-23 winter festival skating cancelled due to no ice by Feb 4th.
* Tornados, derechos, and golf-ball-sized hail are now a thing
* Losing power for a week due to tornados and derechos knocking out power to half the city is now a thing. 
* Forest fire smoke from unprecedented forest fires 2000km away is now a thing
* Towns burning to the ground after record temperatures is now a thing (Lytton; Jasper), luckily not one I have personally experienced, unlike the previous points above

smozoma

We were in traverse city last week and didn’t hear any songbirds. I sleep with my windows open and they used to wake me up at the crack of dawn with a cacophony of noise in the summer. It was so eerie! Could be the wildfire smoke, but I sure miss them.

jackl_antrn

I like to go skiing in the winter. But there are no snow where I live and shorter winter season at the ski resorts. Need to go to places with higher altitudes or go further north.

Party-Appointment-99

Brit here. When I was a kid in the 1990s, we would be lucky to get to temperatures of 30C on one day a year. Snow would settle in my part of the world (Eastern England) for a good week or two in the winter, and even then it would snow several times all winter.

Now? We are just about to have our fourth heatwave of the summer. Next week, tempuratures will exceed 30C on at least two days, and it has done the same in each of the last three heatwaves. It reaching 34C or even 35C is not that uncommon. As for the snow, it has not snowed here AT ALL in the last 5 years, and the last time it settled for any length of time was probably in 2011.

The rain has also noticeably changed. When I was a kid, the average rainfall was misty, drizzly depressing rain that seeped into everything slowly. Now, more often than not, the heavens just open and there is a deluge for a short time. Then it dries up, then another shower comes along and its a deluge again,

Finally, the insects. People have said that they notice fewer insects now. What I have noticed is that there is either no insects, or there are billions of them. Last year, our garden hardly had a sound. This year there have been swarms of ladybirds, flying ants (so many they are picked up on weather radar), and grasshoppers. 

Welcome to the present that was predicted 15 years ago.

PurahsHero

Vacation planning. You can no longer assume an "average temperature" calendar has any validity

Particular-Shallot16

Depends on the house, how it was constructed, how well insulated and where it’s located. We had the house built, so we had higher than building code insulation in the walls ceilings and attic.  Heating at our house started usually in November and lasted until sometime in April. We had large south facing windows that were in the shade in Summer and fully in sun as its seasonal angle lowered. That provided enough natural heat during the transition from Summer to Winter and the same in Springtime as we transitioned to Summer.

The first and second Winters we were there had some really cold days. At the house, the first full Winter there (‘95-‘96) we had a couple of very windy nights that dipped to 20° below zero.  We had thin snow cover, and that cold wind killed an entire row of holly bushes we had planted on the west side of our house.

Each Winter after that, below zero temperatures became less frequent and not as cold. And the last 10 years there, we hardly saw  any cold days below zero nights. Maine’s legendary “tough Winters”, especially for the southern third of the state have been a thing mostly of the past. 

Northern Maine has always been colder than the southern sections, but even up there, Winters are not as consistently brutal as they were back some years ago. The Polar Vortex has shrunk significantly and is less stable. 

Pockets (cold pools of air) still break off and plunge well south to bring colder than normal Winter weather even to places like Texas or Florida once in a while, but these are very short lived episodes. Most Winters are milder over all across the U.S. now. Snow cover duration has eroded substantially.  We still see great snow storms that dump feet of snow, but that snow doesn’t last as long, melted by more frequent warm air intrusions. 

Northern Montana east of the Continental Divide, North Dakota and the northern part of Minnesota are on average colder in Winter than Maine. Although, Northern Maine is pretty close when it comes to cold Winter weather. 

So there is a good period where we lived in Maine where no heat or cooling was required. You could adjust interior temperatures by opening or closing windows.  For example, opening windows during the warmer part of the day and then closing as it cooled when nights were expected to be cold, or the opposite, opening those windows at night at to let cooler air in, closing up in the early morning when days were expected to be warm. 

Maine has some of the oldest inventory of homes compared to other states by percentage, so there are many older homes that are not well insulated or weather tight.  Those homes would need heating and cooling for longer periods.

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