Floods are much more common now.
Also: relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1321

PNW

We called June “Junuary” because it still rained quite a bit. We didn’t have “Fire Season” when I was a kid, it was still safe to have campfires in August. There might have been a few days each summer where the temperature exceeded 100F / 38C. We didn’t have air conditioning, but it wasn’t really necessary. Summer weather was over by late September, but I don’t recall it ever being very “hot” once school started. It was mostly gray and rainy November to May.

Now, summer weather seems to start in May. It’s about to be 90F / 32C the next few days and I find myself wishing for more rain every June. There are forest fires every year, fire bans go into effect early to mid July, late summer the air is hazy and smells like smoke. There’s usually a solid week that exceeds 100F / 38C. Portable AC units are necessary for survival. I’m usually still wearing shorts and a shirt into the second half of October, my partner’s birthday is on the 20th and that’s been the last “long summer night” where we stay out until 2AM the past few years. Winter’s been a lot sunnier than it used to be, we usually get a “false spring” event in March. “April Showers” feel like they’ve been missing.

Currently hazy from smoke. We have “wildfire season” now and half of Canada is either smoky or on fire. Had it bad two years ago too. I’m not that old but it didn’t happen when I was younger that I remember.

So so much windier.

Something lots of older people have told me is that the sheer drop in insect numbers is what opened their eyes to climate change. Jeremy Clarkson denied climate change exists until he saw a dry river in 2019 and even now says it’s not man made. Despite all this he was concerned about how few butterflies he sees nowadays. Broken clocks and all that…

the bugs are gone. living in the suburbs of the midwest, once the summer heat died youd wanna go out and enjoy the nice evening, but if you didn’t have bug spray the mosquitoes would absolutely murder ya. so we would slap on the ‘off deep woods’ and light a citronella and enjoy the lightning bugs. so many, like stars all around, trying to hold a convo over the loud-ass crickets. guardin your can so a bug wouldn’t fly in. if you drank a soda, there’d always be some damn bee hasslin the mouth of the can

by the busy side of a highway, the buzzin and chattering of bugs was a cacophany of life. those gas station scrub stations (the ones that are always dry now) were absolutely vital as the windshield would get covered in bug guts. id stop by just for that often, even when i didn’t need gas.

now just 30 years later, i can have a beer or two in the evening, chill outside a couple hours and get bitten maybe once or twice.

it doesn’t matter so much how the stations buckets are dry, my own sprayer n wipers is enough. the lightning bugs are few. crickets are few. the sides of the road are silent.

Shorter winter, much less snow, and some bird sounds I remember from when I was a kid have disappeared from the summer ambience as they’ve migrated further north.

Weather is now more unpredictable.

Last year we had a May where nearly everyday hit 100°f. That usually doesn’t happen until August.

This year we had a storm that dropped 15" of rain in one day. We normally get 25" in a year in my area.

We’ve had two years in the last five that actually got under 32°f which usually happens once a decade or less. Many plants here can’t tolerate that weather so they die.

Tornados in other parts of the country seem more destructive. They are also happening further East.

Hurricane’s are also a problem for the coastal regions. My area hasn’t been affected by them but I am expecting that to change.

Weather is more extreme on each end of the spectrum.

In Southeast Pennsylvania (Philly suburbs):

• Winters are way more mild with much less snow. We were recently rezoned from 7a to 7b, which tells me the USDA believes this change isn’t going to revert.
• Summers are a lot hotter and more humid (and there are so many goddamn mosquitoes!)
• We get really strong wind gusts now - it’s not uncommon for the day’s forecast to have wind at 25 mph (about 40 kph) with gusts at 45 mph (about 72 kph)
• We get tornado alerts a few times each summer now. Those used to be super rare.
• We get haze as the soot from the Canadian wildfires drifts in our direction

I grew up in a tiny mountain valley 1000m above sea level. We had this small ski resort and in winter we would always go there. We could just ski down the street and take the first lift next to the street. This was for 2 months at least the case each winter. Nowadays there isn’t as much snow anymore. The single remaining lift is mostly closed and you could ski down the street on a few days only. And this was just 20 years ago!!

We have a also a bigger resort around here. There is a slope all the way down to the parking lot. Hasn’t been open in years now😕

We had record breaking snow in Florida with my town getting the most at 10" over about 10 hours.

Summers are now dry, I can go a month, maybe two, without rain. Used to rain every single day.

The seasons starts and ends shifted. There are also longer periods of rain or drought.

The semi-rural property I live on (low rent) burnt down so I had to evacuate. But I came back because the building I was in was mostly unharmed somehow. That was a few years ago now so it’s been a good amount of time for life to rebound from the fires, but everything has deeply changed since then. It used to be quite lush with green plant life everywhere even in the Summer and Fall. A lot of plants have come back, as expected, but not the lush green foliage, it’s all dry grasses and invasive weeds now. It’s like living in a completely different biome to what it used to be like here. There used to be a sheen of moisture on everything, now it’s a patina of dust.

It’s SO much more dry and barren so inevitably the animal life completely changed too. As an example, we used to get these big banana slugs. It may sound gross to some, but they were really fascinating and colorful creatures. I haven’t seen one for years, even before the fires it was drying out and they couldn’t survive. Now if you brought one from somewhere else and set it here, it would be dead and desiccated within hours. The kinds of insects you could find has completely changed too. Not just in the types, but in a lack of diversity. There used to be this huge variety of beetles and crickets, centipedes, silkworms, butterflies and moths. Now those are mostly all gone and only the earwigs dominate. There are still moths, but only like 2 kinds instead of 20. I try to keep a little garden, and I’ve noticed there are even fewer earthworms than there used to be. It’s sad. It genuinely feels like some kind of slow death in a way.

There’s no more spring or autnum. It stays war till December and than boom, icy roads. Same thing after winter. Sweater weather till May and then suddenly heatwave.

Less snow. More fire.