How is the climate where you live different than it was, say, 30 years ago?

Most of us are old enough to remember growing up during a time when the climate was different. Aside from the scientific evidence, what is your subjective evaluation--assuming you still live in or near the area where you grew up?

I grew up in California, but our family were frequent visitors to Oregon, where I've lived since 2003. So:

It's definitely hotter. Southern Oregon routinely hits 100 degrees in the summer. It almost never did before. Portland recently broke its all-time record of 97 degrees--with five days of 116 degrees!!

We seem to be getting roughly the same amount of rain, but instead of days and days of light drizzle, we get periodic car washes as the atmospheric rivers hit. Feels more like California now. Far more cold, clear winter days than before.

What about your neck of the woods?

I'm in the mid South.  I can recall several big snow winters EVERY YEAR growing up in the mid to late 1950s - mid '60s, real snow days, schools closed, lovely winter scenes of our house with heavy snow.  We loved it.  I have pictures taken by my dad, who loved to photograph everything.

That has drastically declined, IMHO.  Icy roads yes, but few real what I call snow days.  Winter months often have 70+ to low 80 degree days, like the Christmas week that just passed.  The TV stations always give "record lows" and "record highs" for the holidays.  I used to laugh at the term "global warming", but now I'm not so sure it isn't real.

Northern part of the state does get colder weather than mid and southern.  Maybe they have more snow days.

Candy

Interesting. Average temps drop by three degrees with every 1,000 feet in elevation. I think that towns in the Ozarks are at 1,000 to 2,000 feet? Could easily make the difference between rain and snow. 

Definitely, Portland gets less snow than before. We don't have many snow days and never did, but 30 years ago, there were an average of six snow days that closed schools every year, and now we average ..one.

San Francisco California.We are cool mild.Warn Fall.Now hot spells in fall.
Spring Summer outside dining.Never when I was growing up.Keep in mind I am old now.

I grew up in Marin County and worked in the City after college. I remember that in the summer, you could go outside and eat lunch in the sun but before you finished, the fog would start rolling in. I made a very memorable mistake when I was about nine years old: our family visited the Japanese Tea Garden and I didn't change out of the shorts I had been wearing at home. Gaah!

I soon learned to dress for the weather. I originally disliked wearing a suit and tie for my job, but I grew to like it because it kept me warm.

I also remember that September was the nicest month. I used to go to Giants games and NOT freeze to death at that time.

It seems to me that you're describing a City a lot warmer than the one I experienced in the 70s.

Oh man, Candlestick could be brutal with the wind back in the day.   I like Pac Bell Park or Oracle Park, if that's what they are calling it now, a lot better.  At least you can watch the game and when it's over hit up a couple of bars or restaurants within a few blocks.  My brother hipped me to Delancy Street, not too far from the park where the workers are people that have fallen on hard times and are given a place to stay and learn skills to revitalize their lives.  Run by the Delancy Street Foundation.  Really good food and service, at a crazy good price. 

At what other major league ballpark were heaters installed in all the aisles and people would bring sleeping bags? 

Mark Twain wasn't joking when he said that the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. 

I grew up right at the line of demarcation between Sunny Marin (north) and Foggy Marin (south) and still vividly remember the summer sun going out at about 3:30 in the afternoon.

Inverness? Point Reyes? 

I was born on the East side of The Bay. Near Hayward.

I was raised on Maui. When I was a kid and young teen it rained very frequently. Seems like year around we had at least some rainfall every week. Usually pretty light showers but sometimes heavy rain. I no longer live there but talking with people who do the temperatures have more or less stayed the same but it rains a lot less. The island has been in serious drought for years. Some of this drought has been caused by government action by shutting down aquifers and other water systems. But a lot of it is due to less rain fall. 

I worked a contract for Del Monte at 1 Market Street doing database work in the early 2000s where they'd fly me in for 2 weeks a month for 9 months.  SFO was very cold and miserable many days with the wind, it cut right to the bone in my walk from my job to the hotel 4 blocks away.  I learned quickly what Mark Twain meant.  But it was a beautiful place, lots of activities on the Piers, nothing like it is today, as SFO is a dirty and empty shell of its former glory.  I wouldn't bother visiting today.

The biggest change I've seen in AZ, west TX are the mosquitos.  Horrific little buggers are everywhere now where they never were before..

When I was a kid and a teenager in Denver, during the summer, we had afternoon thunderstorms just about every day. 

When I was in high school, my buddies and I would always try to get up and get going early to make it to the lake before the clouds rolled in. Trying to get a bunch of teenage boys moving in the morning never worked out. Someone overslept, someone's parents wanted them to get something done before they left, and somebody else had to stop and get something to eat. 

Now we rarely have afternoon storms, but when we do, the folks who have moved in here in the last 20 years or even more recently will comment on how unusual it is.