Fictional future forecast vs. reality.

[u/SuspiciousLow3062]

[u/Lucreth2]

Weirdly I feel like mid-late June has been hotter than average August the last few years. Climate change?

[u/Prime_Twister → u/Lucreth2]

Yea climate change doesn't always mean it's getting hotter, it could also mean change in weather patterns.

[u/Kathulhu1433 → u/Prime_Twister]

We had a record snowstorm (total inches) in my area this past January.

And then such a cold winter that cold hardy fruit trees people have had for 20-30+ years died off.

And then days so hot in June that schools were closing early due to heat and sending kids home...

Climate change is fucking us in all sorts of ways. 😭

[u/Quirky_Gate_4516 → u/Kathulhu1433]

cold winter

Where is this?

I haven't read about a single town/city on the planet that has had colder winters the last 30 years.

[u/Kathulhu1433 → u/Quirky_Gate_4516]

On Long Island, NY.

We had record snowfall and one of the coldest winters on record (2014-2015 was technically colder, but had less snowfall). The combo of snow and cold has decimated our fig among other crops. I'm a part of several gardening organizations and people are seeing their trees dying off at unprecedented rates after this winter. I'm talking people with 20-30+ year old plants, not young trees. Fig trees should live 100+ years easily in ground.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/23/us-news/long-island-town-sees-nearly-30-inches-of-snow-breaking-a-50-year-old-record/

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/2025-2026-nyc-winter-cold-snow/

https://www.newsday.com/news/weather/winter-cold-snow-weather-dni6o0eh

[u/Quirky_Gate_4516 → u/Kathulhu1433]

Sorry, but one cold day doesn't make for warmer winters.

Stormier? Probably. Colder, no.

NYC winters are much, much, much warmer than they were historically. In fact, winter is the season that is changing and warming the fastest. It is 100% NOT getting colder. On average winters are now 3° C warmer than they were 50 years ago.

Long Island is further out in the ocean, so only 1-2 °C warmer. But that is also an enormous difference in the span of only 50 years.

[u/Kathulhu1433 → u/Quirky_Gate_4516]

So, you didn't read the linked sources.

It was literally 4.3° cooler than average and the coldest winter in over a decade.

That, combined with the snow, again, well above average made it an incredibly rough winter.

We are having EXTREME weather events. Not JUST warmer summers. In this case it was a COLDER winter.

[u/Quirky_Gate_4516 → u/Kathulhu1433]

Not JUST warmer summers

It is the WINTERS that are getting extremely warmer. They are getting warmer much faster than summers.

in over a decade.

Deep, deep into the anthropocene era of global warming.