Mass Hysteria.
Well, in my state, Republican dominated legislatures have had to enact laws to prevent encroaching high tides from destroying real estate value. So, now the high tide and low tide lines are set by law, and cannot be changed by such trivial things as actual tides.
And you thought the Republicans weren’t doing anything about climate change!
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Just two unusually hot seasons. One might be an anomaly but the chances of both being so are much lower.
I was in New York State for a couple family events during the summer a decade or so ago and it was so hot that I couldn’t do any of the hiking I had planned, it got into the 90s for several days straight and my sister’s graduation was broiling as well: thankfully my brother’s wedding was mostly at nighttime!
This year’s winter was unusually hot here in Florida. There were only a few weekends that were clement enough for me to do a long-distance run without being hampered by the heat, and none which required me to have my shirt on throughout the run nor a hat except during warmup. Usually there are several weekends like this in a season, and several others where I can run comfortably without a shirt (which again, only happened a handful of times this season.) Sometimes there are even weekends where I need a long sleeve shirt or hat on throughout the run and that didn’t happen at all.
And the weekdays were no colder this season either: usually there are 10 or so days where it is cold enough that it is more comfortable to wear a winter jacket or overcoat to work for the parking lot walk, and that didn’t happen at all this year.
Actually, in terms of actual effective action sufficient to deal with the size of the problem, mass apathy.
Since the OP asks for personal observations, this is necessarily subjective and unscientific, but there’s what I think I’ve noticed. Frequent record-breaking high temperatures in spring, which seems to start earlier than normal, and fall, which goes on longer than normal. Not sure I’ve noticed that much change in hot summer temperatures although I understood we’ve broken records quite a few times in recent years. Periods of unusually heavy rains in summer, but actually less snow than ever in winter, to the point that I’m wondering if a plow service for the driveway is even worth it any more. More extreme weather – we’ve have multiple periods in the past few years of winds strong enough to be destructive in an area accustomed to benign, boring weather.
Noticed that also. Also have seen a trend towards fewer [sup]*[/sup]cat tracking snows. Most snow now is in storms.
The wooded swampy area we started hunting about 30 years ago was really wet the first few years. As in hip boots and waders to get some of the downed deer out. Then about 15 years ago, when my kids started, we were going through in knee boots and if you knew where to go you could get by in hiking boots. Now we are back to knee boots if you are careful and hip boots available in the cabin if needed. All this assumes the swamp and creeks haven’t frozen over yet. Some years are, some aren’t. Haven’t been out in T-shirts and vests in years.
*cat tracking snows are dustings heavy enough for a cat to leave tracks in. One time about 35-40 years ago my dad kept note of over 85 snows one winter.
Over the course of 16 years in the Caribbean I noticed changes in coral coverage such as a sharp drop in staghorn coral outcroppings and bleaching events that are typically attributed to warmer surface waters.
On the other hand I lived on the shore of a Caribbean island all that time with no perceptible change in sea level or frequency of particularly high tides.
Hawaii used to have fairly predictable climate. Cold and rainy in December, pleasantly mild in March, hot days and warm nights in July, etc. Now, it’s just…screwy. During the really bad part of the year, roughly late September to December, it can be uncomfortably humid one night and a freaking steam room the next. The early spring period is usually pretty good, unless a thunderstorm comes up, in which case it’s almost freezing. Thankfully that’s a rare occurrence, especially compared to the days where it’s like a damn pressure cooker that pop up completely at random.
Oh, and there are never sustained heavy rains anymore. Anything longer than 30 minutes is a damn flash flood warning nowadays. A typical “rainy season” nowadays is one pretty heavy shower, four or five moderate showers, and four or five light showers, and the rest is the same dinky drippy-drip tinklers we get all the time the rest of the year.
Don’t get me started on the hurricanes.
When I first moved here, the Australian summers were very predictably similar each year. A slow ramp up to hot, starting mid November to January, then a few months of very hot, then ramping down March to late April. It varied a little there were heatwaves or wet Januarys sometimes, but they were notable anomalies.
Now the summers are volatile in the variation. Inconsistent starts and ends, weeks where it will be 35°C one day, 12 the next, then right back to 35 again. Heatwaves are hotter, but shorter, and cold rainy days are more frequent. It’s been this way for the last five years, and it seems like this is the new normal now.
I was just in Tasmania in the last week of March and had amazing weather almost every day, even though that used to be the start of chilly autumn by then.
South africa:
In my youth, one could rely on a windy early spring, followed by a solid week of light rain in early-mid spring.
It was so predictable there were local kite-flying festivals in august.
Since about 2005, these have become irregular, then vanished completely. Now it is cold dry winter, followed by mild dry spring, followed by earth-shattering midsummer thunderstorms.
Ok, we always had those thunderstorms, but previously they would dump their water on verdant grasslands fed by the spring rains. Now the same summer rain just washes mud around, and causes flooding.
In short, spring winds and rains have become unreliable or nonexistent, and autumn stays damp for longer before the onset on winter.
I’ve visited Glacier National Park. Guess what there aren’t any of in the park, any more?
The nearest major weather station to me is 484000 (Nakhon Sawan). Here is a list of the four longest streaks of 40+°C days recorded at that weather station since it was established in 1949:
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[li] Thirteen Day Streak — every day from April 3, 2010 to April 15, 2010 the temperature exceeded 40°C.[/li][li] Twenty-seven Day Streak — every day from April 3, 2016 to April 29, 2016 the temperature exceeded 40°C.[/li][li] Twelve Day Streak — every day from May 2, 2016 to May 13, 2016 the temperature exceeded 40°C.[/li][li] Twelve Day Streak — every day from April 10, 2019 to April 21, 2019 the temperature exceeded 40°C.[/li][/ul]
Note the “ending” date on the latest 12-Day streak. We may tie the 2nd-longest streak tomorrow. Indeed the present seven-day forecast is for seven more days of 40°C or 41°C.
The 40°C threshold is arbitrary. Starting from February 20, the station reported eight days with a high in the range 36.0-36.9°; the other 51 days in this period were all 37°+. (The first 20 days of February weren’t particularly cool either, with only 2 days below 35°C.)
That weather station is more than an hour’s drive from my house. Our climate is hotter than that at 484000, with this month’s temperatures sometimes exceeding 44° in the shade. 
For parts of Dakotas which used to have FIERCE blizzards but they are rare now. My grandmother has seen it snow every month of the year except August. Imagine, snow on the 4th of July! If you had to go out and tend cattle in a Dakota blizzard you would welcome global warming.
I don’t see a smiley-face so it seems conceivable you may be unaware that global warming causes fierce winter storms as the polar vortex wobbles. Here’s a YouTube to get you started.
And, that gets to the things that I’ve observed, which may be related to global warming.
Here in Chicago, of the 10 biggest snowfalls in our weather records (dating back to 1884), five have been in the past 20 years.
In Green Bay, where I grew up, of their six biggest recorded snowfalls (dating back to at least 1880), three have been in the past 22 years.
I live in the western suburbs of Chicago; Salt Creek runs about four blocks east of my house. About eight years ago, after days of torrential rains, Salt Creek came out of its banks, and flooded the neighborhood (thankfully, it stopped a block away from my house). At that time, in talking with my neighbors, many of whom have lived here since the 1950s, they said, “the creek has never done anything like that before.” And, then, four years ago, it did it again.
^ I’ve wondered about this as well. I moved to Portland, OR in 2005. We get a tiny bit of snow most winters: a dusting that melts by afternoon, maybe a few times each winter. The first time I saw any real snow (several inches to a couple of feet, enough to cause mass chaos in the city, and lasting more than a day or two) was in 2008. At the time, I was told we get a good snowfall like that every four or five years.
The next such storm came in 2014. Then we got one in 2017. Then another one in 2018. This year, we got a minor one, a couple of inches that lasted two days.
Warmer winters that last longer, shorter springs. Expecting hotter summers.
Here in southern California, none whatsoever.
I work outside as a landscaper, not in some air conditioned office, so I feel the weather up close and personal.
Summers 30 years ago were just as hot as today and winters just a mild. A few summers maybe a little hotter than others, then followed by a few summers cooler than others, but certainly no trend of continuously hotter and hotter summers.
More dry winters than rainy ones, but that has been the normal pattern for over a 100 years since people have been tracking the rain here. Just had a very rainy winter; the entire state is “drought free”.
Sorry, just not seeing it.
Well, this is a thread about personal experience, and I’m not questioning that your experience has been as you describe. But insofar as you seem to be making some objective statements about recorded climate data, the idea that there are no detectable changes contradicts reports like this one:
Your overall sense that no perceptible changes are happening may be partially due to the so-called “St. Louis Cold effect” (courtesy of xkcd comics):
In other words, we get gradually accustomed to the “new normal” in climate conditions and forget what the “old normal” was really like.
There’s a name for this. Shifting baselines.
The fact that Mangosteen has failed to identify objectively real climate phenomena says more about his perception than the actual changes taking place. In this case, it’s kind of the reverse of confirmation bias.