It's starting to look that way.
I've lived in thenorhtern midwest my entire life and have seen both extremes. I remember hunting deer Nov 20th in short sleeves, closing the usually frozen lake by boat and crusing far up a shallow creek. That was 25 years ago, I've never been able to do that since, because it's been too cold.
People always forget that "winter" doesn't really start officially until Dec 16th or so, for the past 20 years they have always seen snow in these parts before December,(Often at the end of October) and expect to be cruizing around on their snow machines before Christmas. Yet I can remember harvesting flax off the field in October, Sometimes even late wheat.
Climate records show cooling for this region, not warming, but for younger people who don't remember ever seeing these warmer times, anything approaching what "normal" used to be is seen as "global warming".
Flax in NoDak??
I thought flax needed warmer temperatures than that. Is it still rett in the field, or is it transported somewhere for processing?
I have been a weaver/felter for over 30 years and once, years ago when I was young, I looked into growing flax, but the entire process was just too labor intensive on a small scale for the fiber actually harvested and folks kept telling me, back in those colder years, that it couldn't be done here (44 degrees N).