(Illustration: ‘Sunset Over the Arctic‘ found here).

Odd the weather here this Saturday afternoon along California’s north coast — crystal-clear, and for this late in the day, still way-warm at 76 degrees, seemingly a stock-weather feature for this past week.
First, a bite-like cold in the morning, but fairly-quickly switching on the warm-up button by mid-day and on into a beautiful, T-shirt-comfortable afternoon. Tomorrow’s forecast is for more of the same, then back to a semi-normal of fog and cooler temperatures by start of the work week — nice, now, though.

Weather is like a shitload of stuff — all relative. In Nebraska and parts about, it’s not T-shirt time at all. A big winter storm is causing havoc, even provoking an EF-4 tornado, which has winds between 166 and 200 miles-an-hour, but no one was killed or seriously injured, and dumping nearly 44 inches of snow across a wide chunk of the upper-midsection of the country.
Meanwhile, to the south, Tropical Storm Karen fizzled, and although there were some heavy rain and flooding, according to the Guardian: There will be effects on beach areas, though those shouldn’t be anything to write home about.
And it might turn out to be a flat season with no hurricane-size storms hitting the US at all — only three last year.
Odd, too, (or maybe not) the snow storm in Nebraska was stronger than Karen.

Weather is everywhere. One person’s weather is just that: One person’s weather. Well, at least for one person in an area with a lot of other people. And is influenced by a warming climate, no matter where you live, and a lot will see stormy times a-coming — and already here.
And maybe for a lot of reasons, or not, Americans apparently haven’t yet truly come to grips with climate change, despite the rest of the planet taking heed.

I came across this a while back, made a note of it, but the last week-or-so of this ongoing political-horror-shutdown/shitstorm in DC pushed it off into the draft pile — From Pew Research:

At least half the public in 24 of the 39 countries say climate change is a major threat to their nation.
People in Greece (87%), South Korea (85%), Brazil (76%), Lebanon (74%) and Japan (72%) express the highest levels of concern.
However, China and the U.S., the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, are among the least worried about climate change.
About four-in-ten Americans (40%) and Chinese (39%) say it is a major threat to their countries.
Only those in the Czech Republic, Jordan, Israel, Egypt and Pakistan are less concerned than the Chinese and Americans.
There is a sharp partisan divide on this issue among Americans, with Democrats (55%) more than twice as likely as Republicans (22%) to view climate change as a major threat.
Another Pew Research survey in March also found large partisan divisions on views toward global warming.
While 87% of Democrats believe there is solid evidence of global warming, just 44% of Republicans agree.
Similarly, Republicans express more doubt about humans’ role in climate change; 19% say global warming is a result of human activity compared with 57% of Democrats.

Just 40 percent of Americans polled — ignorant right now, but soon won’t be.
Weather and climate change are fused into the analogy of a guy walking his dog. There’s many versions of this summary-concept, this particular one via ClimateBites:

When CC walks his dog, he goes in a more or less straight line from the house to the park, but his dog, TC, a Jack Russell Terrier, is sniffing to the left, sniffing to the right, circling trees, running ahead or pulling back.
TC is Temperature Change and he’s all over the place.
Without his owner, he’d get nowhere.
His owner, Climate Change, is making sure they get to the park.
The trouble is that the park is a wasteland of drought, extreme weather, rising sea levels and ocean acidification.

And not much T-shirt weather in the mix, I’m afraid.