This week I’ve noticed that it’s cold and the weather has been changing rapidly. That’s not particularly “good.” This is January. In a more typical year, I would have long since noticed that it was cold, and the weather would not be changing much… at least not until I was surprised by a January thaw a week or two from now. The fact that it was “cold” would have long since have ceased being noticed.
This has already been one of the mildest (if not the mildest) winter I’ve experienced. There was scarcely any snow until Thanksgiving, and temperatures have been lingering in the upper 30s and 40s ever since. Today is only the fifth or sixth “cold” day of the winter, and in this case, “cold” isn’t a breath-puffing eye-watering 0 or 2 degrees Fahrenheit, but a nightly low in the mid-teens.
Global warming deniers get to trot out their placards every time it snows in January… I wonder if I should put up a sign every time the snow melts. If this weather keeps up, it would be visible pretty much year round.