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Originally Posted by speeder
Definitely don't live somewhere where you hate the climate. That would be a large and growing part of North America for me. I say growing because there are places like Denver that were never too hot until the last 20-30 years but now are.
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I decided to look this up because there just seems to be a general consensus that this is the case. i.e., it's so much warmer today than 20-30-40 years ago. In the case of Denver, the average has risen about a degree in the past 70+ years. Personally, I wouldn't notice the difference between, say, 71 and 72 degrees.
When I lived in Michigan, there was a similar consensus that we don't get any where near the amount of snow we did when we were kids in the 60s and 70s. I admit to even thinking that myself. I remember snow storms with many feet of snow, and lots of them!! I think part of it stems from everything seeming 'bigger' when you were a kid (ever visit your high school and realize how tiny the hallways are compared to what you remember?). Anyway, looking all the way back to the 1920s to current day average snow fall in the Detroit area - there's not a whole hell of a lot of difference. I didn't add it up, but it almost looks like there's more snow now. It's surprising.
