Accepting reality has been the difficult part for some. Especially when comments remarking upon the recent vomit trail of extreme summer warmth are immediately followed with retorts like "Yeah but OLM was 0.1 degree below its historic average in May 2024!!!1".

I don't think it ran way warm, it's just the anomalies during the 2010s were exaggerated due to more UHI compared to previous decades. The nice thing is we can look at a station like OLM in the same region and not see the weird decadal aberrations for anomalies since they haven't had much land use change around them over their history.

Problem is that once you had your little epiphany after 2023, you started going overboard and all in on heat/dryness every warm season. To the point that almost all of your predictions have busted on the warm side. Again, very similar to how you went all in on the demise of lowland snowfall after 2007-08. There is a happy medium where one can accept reality but also realize that this doesn't mean the most recent trends are just bound to keep accelerating, other cycles and factors be d*mned.

I think they broke SEA when they corrected the sensor after running way warm for years.

The soft denialism behind thinly veiled bad faith logic and constant trolling is growing really old. It wouldn't be hyping anything up to admit that, yeah, we're seeing warmer and warmer weather outside of February, without any weird asterisks to force down some supposed strawman "AGW hypebeast" angle that only exists on mainstream tabloids and twitter reply sections. I mean I enjoy the warm days as much as Tim. I have to if I want to enjoy the outdoors in a warming climate. Besides, even our hottest weather is a cakewalk comapred to a cool summer in St Louis, so it's not exactly a challenge to bask in our dry 85F sunshine.