I’m guessing you might have been a kid in the ‘60s. So was I. Recent year’s weather patterns resemble what I remember them to be back then also.
We use to get big refrigerator and mattress box's at the appliance store and slide down the neighborhood hill, though everyone had sleds and flying-saucers! Ha! We'd stay out til our gloves were full of snow-buttons and feet red once we got our boots off! My mom use to get so annoyed with us not knowing to come in when we got so cold! Ha! Just too much fun! Kids today don't know what fun is!