Louisville has always had highly variable weather. It's in the interior of the country (no oceans to moderate the temperatures), is in a river valley (so the topography funnels things this direction), and happens to be where weather fronts often collide.
It keeps things interesting. But after 18 years in the SF Bay area's non-weather it's weird to live someplace where there are regularly 40 degree changes in temperature in any given day!
This chart might help demonstrate. It shows the yearly average temperatures, which are relatively smooth curves, and last year's temps, which you can see are all over the place. If you tell it to show record temperatures the range gets it gets even crazier. :)
Now the fact that much of this winter had temperatures in the teens & 20s, instead of in the low-40s more typical to Louisville? I believe that is due to climate change.
It's been too cold for too long here. I moved to Louisville in part because the winters are fairly mild. I am really looking forward to summer. I know that it will get very hot here during the summer, but I am looking forward to it.
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It keeps things interesting. But after 18 years in the SF Bay area's non-weather it's weird to live someplace where there are regularly 40 degree changes in temperature in any given day!
This chart might help demonstrate. It shows the yearly average temperatures, which are relatively smooth curves, and last year's temps, which you can see are all over the place. If you tell it to show record temperatures the range gets it gets even crazier. :)
Now the fact that much of this winter had temperatures in the teens & 20s, instead of in the low-40s more typical to Louisville? I believe that is due to climate change.
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