The weather where I live (Colorado, USA) has really weirded since early 2012. That's still too short a time period to say anything about what the future may hold, but long term residents have frequently commented that the climate here has shifted noticeably in the past 20 years. The rains used to come, quite predictably, in late-summer afternoon bursts that lasted about 2 hours. Five to seven days a week. Now they don't come at all for long stretches and when they do they hang around for days. Here's a comment I made in a journal from 9 April, 2012:
"So the weather all March has been truly fantastic! Too much so. It's pretty worrisome actually. As much fun as it is to go outside in this weather it's not supposed to be this warm yet."I noticed flowers blooming, tree leaf buds coming out, and insects arriving that weren't supposed to be around for another few weeks. Not long after that, my area had some of the worst wildfires in our state's history, and even president Obama came out to check it out. And I don't have to bring up on this forum what the arctic sea ice did that year.
The next year the fires were even worse, and Boulder, which is only about a 70 minute drive from here, had some pretty incredible floods. I've long been concerned about the long-term effects of climate change, but 2012 was when I really woke up and started paying attention.
(off-topic: I'm probably missing something really obvious, but "who is white and king of the ice"?
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