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> This was definitely the mildest winter I've experienced in my life. In Buffalo it's been a really weird winter—mostly unusually mild, punctuated by a few ver
by mcphage 4y ago
> This was definitely the mildest winter I've experienced in my life.
In Buffalo it's been a really weird winter—mostly unusually mild, punctuated by a few very severe events (giant snowstorm in November, 2-day blizzard in December, ice storm in February) but returning to mild shortly after. Honestly this past week or so is the first time it's felt like a normal winter.
- dlkasajiewo 4y agoSame here in Virginia. This is exactly how I'd describe it. From what I understand, it's caused by the increasing energy in the Earth's climatic system leading the jet stream to bound further north and further south than typical, causing extremely warm tropical air to make it strangely far north in the summer (2021 Seattle heatwave) and for extremely cold arctic air to make it strangely far south in the winter (2022 DC it got down to subzero Fahrenheit, coldest I've felt in my life)
- nerdponx 4y agoMy anecdotal experience over the last 15 years or so in the Northeast suggests that this has been the trend, along with summer ending later and starting later.