Coldest winter here since 1979 - down here and up somewhere else. Climate 101.
Anecdotally, how many of us really believe it is warmer where we live now than it used to be? I bet very few people would say that. They have been predicting catastrophe for two decades with nothing to show for it - the hockey stick never materialized no matter how much they fudge the numbers. CO2 is not a pollutant no matter how much they cry about it.
They are the “boy who cried wolf.”
I believe it’s warmer here in NJ than when I was young. We used to have our first freeze at the end of September, now it’s late October. The ground used to freeze solid in early to mid-December, now I count on January 1.
This was certainly our warmest winter ever. Never got cold enough to stop the wintersweet blooming as it has every other year in the fifteen I’ve had it.
I don’t know that the summers feel warmer but the winters certainly are. (And I don’t mind at all.)