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Compared to 50 to 100 years ago I know our Novembers are hotter. The old timers used to could kill hogs in November. Now we can't kill until Late December/Early Jan.
My step father was a meteorologist with NWS. He would laugh at claims of global warming or cooling.While I'm not sufficiently versed in climatology and physics to attempt addressing causes, the temperatures in my little part of the world - northern New England - have definitely risen during the past 40 years, especially in this century. Even considering that the 1960s-70s were somewhat cooler than the 40s-50s, the overall increase seems valid and the past 20+ years have seen the change at its greatest.
Snowfall has been different, as predicted by some models, in places where winter temperatures average far below 32°. Most climate models predict increasing precipitation in humid climates like NNE, so even though we've been getting more rain/ice in recent winters, the amount of snow has also increased.
Another common prediction is greater extremes, which I've also noted. (I've kept weather records for 60+ years though currently I only have the 50 years in Maine, with some gaps in 1973-75. The earlier New Jersey records failed to make one of the crosstown moves in Fort Kent.) Of course, those extremes provide ammo for both sides of the issue.
Edit: The forecasts I've read for Death Valley topped out around 130°, with overnights 100 or a bit above.A few degrees either way from that 130 is no surprise but crushing by 5° the world's highest temperature on record (a somewhat disputed 134° in Death Vally) is highly unlikely.
Of course global warming is not happening. BUt for those who believe that the earth has been around for millions or billions of years, truth does not matter.
It depends on what evidence is being looked at and how one already believes before hand to interpert said evidence.
Right, going into the global warming discussion with a predisposition toward evolution, big bang, Carl Sagan billions of years and Steven Hawking being a genius, you'd always fall on the global warming side.
Much truth there, though my anecdotal evidence is my 50 years of daily weather observations, with the same thermometer used since January 1,1976. That's definitely "local" though I've lived in 5 different sites across Maine since moving from Bangor to Fort Kent. I've also downloaded co-op data for a number of places in New England, some dating back into the 19th century, and some trends during that short (compared to the years since Creation) span are consistent. The 40s and 50s were warmer than the first 30 years of the 20th century, the 60s and 70s were cooler than the 40s-50s, and since then average temperatures have been rising at most sites. This has been consistent in the large urban heat islands and in more rural locales like Farmington and Caribou, Maine.