A climate contains more natural variation than most people realize. Let me give you an example from personal experience.
When the DrsC first had a summer place here in western Wyoming 30+ years ago, it was common for the area to have afternoon thunderstorms. These were usually brief but noisy and included a few minutes of hard rain, and occasionally hail.
Our first house here had cedar siding, stained brown, and one of those hail storms hit the front of our attached garage so hard it ended up looking like it had tan measles. Each tiny impact had broken the surface of the brown stain and showed the cedar's natural unfinished color. We had to apply more stain.
Then starting about 25 years ago the afternoon summer thundershowers stopped. Anyone who came here after that could have spent 15-20 years here thinking the summers were largely rain free.
This year they've started up again, one is happening as I write this. We've had several so far this year since we arrived in May.
I know afternoon summer thundershowers are normal here, many who haven't summered here since the mid-1990s (as we have) will think what is happening this summer is evidence of climate change - and they'll be wrong.
Summers with thundershowers and summers without them are both normal here, and you can get a bunch of years in a row with one or the other. When I first visited this area with my parents in 1949 on a summer camping trip we had afternoon rain more than once during our brief stay, I remember its distinctive sound on the canvas tent.
Much of what is alleged to be "climate change" is in fact normal climate variation that simply hasn't occurred for several years. Irregular occurrence is itself normal.
Relax and go with what Mom Nature decides she's serving for weather today. Whatever arrives isn't your fault.
