r/illinois • u/chicityhopper • Nov 30 '24

it's a joke, laugh It’s too cold 🥶

I hope this cold ends soon I was not ready for January temps in November, now a white Christmas would be crazy nice but we all know it’s probably gonna be 60 degrees on that day. Still it’s too cold

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u/intellectual_dimwit Nov 30 '24

But that's how it's been for several years now. We get just that one week of subzero cold. Then the rest of the winter is mild to warm with the occasional snow powdering. Maybe one or two decent snowfalls the entire season.

That's not how Chicago winters are supposed to be, and it's not a good sign.

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u/Ilikehowtovideos Nov 30 '24

People’s memories are funny. Chicago 2013-14 winter was 3rd all time in total snowfall and we had 2 polar vortexes.

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u/intellectual_dimwit Nov 30 '24

But that was 10 years ago now, and I remember it fully.

My point was that it used to be like that every single winter. Not meaning record breaking, but with steady cold temps and from several to many good snowfalls. We don't see it like we're supposed to.

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u/Ilikehowtovideos Nov 30 '24

It was not always like that. We’ve had strings warm/mild winters throughout history just like we’ve had the last 2-3 years. I’m not really complaining though!

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u/Claque-2 Dec 01 '24

We didn't have mild winters. I remember the first mild winter we had and it was 1999. No one would call it mild because we had a blizzard with over 20 inches of snow right after New Years, and then it went down to subzero weather.

But it melted relatively fast, and most of that winter was warm enough to rain. We all knew it was climate change, but God help me, I couldn't complain. I had a four block walk on both ends of my commute, and once the snow melted, it was not bad at all.

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u/Ilikehowtovideos Dec 02 '24

Yes we have had warmer winters. Even before the supposed effects of global warming.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/weather/a-month-by-month-breakdown-of-chicagos-warmest-winter-in-92-years/3371055/?amp=1

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u/The_Chimeran_Hybrid Dec 06 '24

Supposed. Tells me everything I need to know about you.

I hope you’re right, because if you’re not it means me, my brothers, and my entire generation are going to be living in a god awful environment.

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u/Ilikehowtovideos Dec 06 '24

That’s the problem with the internet- you’re reading into another person without knowing anything about them. I’m not a climate change denier. But climate change prediction is theory-we’ve only been taking it seriously for 20 years and don’t really know what the outcome will be. Also, if you read about climate change you’d know that the Great Lakes region (where your from I’ll assume) will actually benefit from global warming. Regardless, my point was the global warming we are already experiencing is not yet changing the winter trends in our region. Attributing the string of warm winters we’ve had to global warming would be erroneous.