The world has hit 1.5 degrees of heating on average, but the heat is not evenly distributed. If you’re in the northern US states or Canada where you used to have to wear a jacket, the climate has already heated up 2-3 degrees. In the Arctic more like 4.

My mom, who is usually pretty level headed about this kind of thing, has completely memory holed this.

She very good at sewing and crafty stuff and used to make me the most badass Halloween costumes. For example: a full body Gizmo fur suit with a big head, ears, and huge eyes where I looked out the mouth. The kind of thing you’d see theme park employees wearing at a Disney park.

Every year, if there was snow on the ground I’d have to cover up these awesome costumes with a jacket, my dad’s jacket with the bulkier ones like Gizmo or E.T. (another full body one with a head). I’d worry about it the entire week before and if there was snow we’d have a huge fight about whether it was enough, “I can see the grass through it, it’s so light”, “it didn’t even stick to the pavement or sidewalks”.

But she swears she doesn’t remember any of this and it almost never snowed in October. Meanwhile now they wonder if they’re going to get their first snow that sticks before Christmas.

Kids costumes today are really cool. I saw one that actually looked like Christian bales batman (but tiny). Back in my day you got a mask held on by a rubber band and a vinyl smock with a picture of the character on it.