I take the rain here for granted. I can't imagine living somewhere where rain is happy news because it is so rare...

I thought the sun doesn't burn people and I'm a weirdo for thinking that. I do agree the heat feels great, it's literally just the sun. Toss in more clouds and I'd actually enjoy summer. I'll still get my vitamin D from a few sun breaks, but don't have to suffer all day long outdoors. But.... I still like the cold better. It just feels refreshing. It's bizarre because I like hot showers but I prefer colder air temperature. Tim is probably the opposite. He likes freezing cold pool water but enjoys the hot sun. I also have a high metabolism so I overheat and sweat quite easily (even at colder temperatures).

Half of the school districts in the impacted region were literally off that day (for other reasons). It was a Friday but various things like workshops, makeup days etc. If schools were open in my area, they would've most certainly been closed considering local roads and most sidewalks were buried in snow. Even main roads got slushy and icy.

The pre-satellite era surface temperature data is hot garbage outside the US/Europe. This is evidenced by the relatively consistent rate of sea level rise over the last 150+ years (the majority of which must be steric sea level rise). The thermodynamics simply cannot work with the minuscule degree of warming on those datasets before the 1970s. In reality there was significantly more warming from the late 19th century into the middle 20th century.

Thermodynamically speaking the opposite is true. Heat is retained during Niñas and expelled during Niños. The increase in frequency of the enhanced state (Niña/-ENSO like, augmented WPWP) relative to Niño/+ENSO is the reason why Niño spikes have been more pronounced recently. There is a relative increase in OHC loading into the IPWP/WPWP during Niñas, which is subsequently exhausted during Niños. It’s the same reason the medieval warm period was dominated by a Niña-like state in the Pacific, and the LIA saw substantially weaker ENSO amplitude (and more a Niño like WC/WPWP structure).