Old Folks. Is the weather worse now than when you were a kid?

It is called climate change and yes it most definitely is changing.

All answers to this wil be determined by where we all live. I'm in the U.K. where (when I was a child) we knew just when to start putting winter clothes to the back of the wardrobe and summer ones to the front. The same happened with winter and summer bedding. We knew when the snow would come, when it would go, when we should book our holidays to be reasonably sure of some sunshine.

Now we have no idea what the weather will be like in any particular month of the year. People no longer separate their clothes but have some of both handy for any time they are needed.

A week ago yesterday I went to church wearing a winter coat made of wool, a scarf around my neck and I wore gloves. Yesterday I went in a lightweight suit and was so warm I had to take off the jacket during the service.

Today was glorious when I woke up 7 a.m. was cloudy and overcast by 10 a.m. and beautiful sunshine by 1 p.m. and it is still like that now at almost 7 p.m. Tomorrow we could be having hailstones - we did 3 days ago. There is no sense or reason to our weather from the layman's angle at least. I'm sure that the meteorological people will understand why it is all happening but your Gran is absolutely correct. The changes will be different kinds of changes in different countries though.

The weather is most definitely worse now than it used to be.

I have lived in Fife, Scotland, all my life and Scotland is not known for the best of weather but I can remember when I was a child, during the school holidays in the summer there were days it was so hot the tar was melting on the roads. For the whole 6 weeks holidays we were guaranteed good weather, were at the beach or just running about the streets wearing shorts and T shirts every day. Sometimes even playing out in my bathing costume.

Nowadays, we get an odd day of sun here or there but not even a whole week.

I guess it is climate change.

When I was a child in the 1950's the weather did seem to

keep within the parameters of what we call the four seasons,

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. These past few years there

does not seem to be much rhyme or reason to the UK weather.

We either have a wintry spring, or an autumnal summer and

too long a winter, so to that extent it is changing, though I

would not say "worse". The most frustrating part is with the

weather being so changeable one never knows what to wear

to keep warm !

Mr. Gore got a Pulitzer prize or something when he gained his millions by saying we're experiencing global warming.

Actually it's called climate change. And when I was a kid in the summer everywhere I would go I'd have to take a sweater with me, it was even chilly to swim at the pool. Today it's 85 indoors and 87 ourdoors and this is May and it's muggy and I'm perspiring and it's hot..wait till it gets over 97...uggg.

Ok well we're having a lot more tornadoes and hurricanes and they are a lot worse than they used to be because lots of people are being uprooted from their homes (that have been flattened) and are put on welfare. But that's not all, there are more sink holes because of the lakes that are drying up from the heat, the atmosphere is being treated with aluminum chips to try to cool down the earth, and crops are drying up and farms going under and cows are being sold off. So sure it's worse than when I was a kid. The world goes thru cyclical changes. Every so many hundreds of years it gets hot and every so many hundreds of years it gets cold. That's just the way it is. Read up about it, it's interesting.

The weather runs in cycles, wet years, dry years, I have noticed flowers bloom early or later than usual. Animals habits are different. Scientist do not agree. For me it seems way more windy and stronger winds than when I was a kid. They said here in the U.S. that was the hottest summer on record as a whole .If we all lived long enough, lets say several hundred years we would see a pattern , but we only see for a short time. It does seem that natural disasters seem they are getting more frequent and stronger, but who am I too say. I know that aging along with fibromyalgia causes me to be more sensitive to weather changes.

It's less cold winters where I live in the midwest.

Climate change is cyclical and projected to occur across centuries if not millenia.

Man has been contaminating the environment w/ his industrial revolution pollution since roughly 1830.

The climate change is accelerated where the huge majority of the scientific community considers it global warming (man's pollution). All anyone has to do it observe how alarming the yr. by yr. receding of the glaciers is to conclude acceleration.

Global warming can be detected by unusual weather patterns.

Australia just added 2 colors to their temperature maps (120s and 130s).

America recently experience the 13 warmest yrs. on record.

My position is as follows:

There's too much at stake to drag our feet about taking every precaution possible to preserve the only planet we know we can live on. When/if it becomes too late, we all suffer the consequences. It won't matter who is claiming hoax today when results are irreversible.

Changes are happening all over the world but seem to be more obvious in some places than in others. The ice caps are melting so that must tell us something. Here in u.k. we haven't had a decent summer for several years, heavy rain has caused flooding where flooding has not been experienced before etc. We seem to have more extremely strong winds than used to be the case destroying trees (and homes in the process sometimes).

People blame all sorts of things, climate changes caused by pollution being pumped out by industry etc. Wherever the blame might lay it is certainly happening.

Not really. The weather has been bad for a spell and then it turned around and is lovely for a day or two. I suppose when one is not as busy with all that a younger life involves, the weather is paid attention to more often. Also when it's bad, as an elderly person, it's much more difficult to get around and about. Arthritis is a royal pain during bad weather.

This is certainly true of our weather pattern in the united kingdom. We don't seem to have four seasons any more but just a whole year of the same i.e. cold, wet and miserable most of the time with the odd nice sunny day here and there which takes us all by surprise. Four distinct seasons was much more pleasant and better for our health.

Different, but not necessarily worse.

As a youngster in Nebraska, I experienced temperatures ranging from -25 F. to +113 F. on the same farm, and winter storms were so severe we were cut off from the rest of the world for extended periods. Now, it is not as cold in winter nor as hot in summer there, nor is there as much snow.

Unfortunately for farmers there, it is pretty darn dry, year round. Everyone irrigates now, but the water table is dropping, some wells have gone dry, and water conservation measures are enforced.