I grew up in Upstate New York on a dairy farm. The snow that fell before Thanksgiving was still on the ground in April. Those snows went away for a few years but they are returning. I have a brother who still lives there and he says the heavy snows have been back for the last four or five years. I get a kick out of people who say it's hotter than it has been for 500 years. I always wonder what made it that hot 500 years ago. It sure wasn't my pick-up truck.