When I was growing up I remember hearing my Nana say how much the weather had changed and that the long and hot summers of years ago were fantastic but the seasons were so different.

Now that was basically forty years ago and I’ve wondered if that was a fact or just our memory playing tricks on us.

Even today we hear some people saying how the winters and summer of the past were hotter and colder and now the seasons are all a little bit of a mish mash and we can expect anything at anytime.

Again is that true or have our seasons been constantly changing from day one?

Sometimes I wonder as the years roll on if our stories can actually grow in size and what was once a misty few days can become the darkest winter in living memory or that a week or so of high temperatures can become stinking hot summers.

The facts and figures seem to show that there were indeed summers that were warm many decades ago but also they were averaged out by some fairly ordinary ones.
There were some harsh winters like in 1939 and 1945 but again there were also milder winter seasons which seem to have slipped from a few memories.

Do we have some sort of romantic notion that some seasons in years gone by were more defined than they are now or were there also a mix of hot and cold and sunny or wet days just like there are now?

Story by R. Green

Image of seasons gone by