If you live in California, climate change has made winters in the midwest _appear_ more mild.

By my teens it was already apparent that IL winters were becoming less snowy, but it was still a slushy+salty mess on the roads.

I still have contact with friends back home and the impression our convos leaves me with is that they're out riding mountain bikes in the winter months my childhood would have had me sledding in a snowsuit.

But maybe it's just irregular and there's lots of icy/slushy road days. I admit I don't pay attention to the weather forecasts back home, it's just passing conversations with old friends combined with what seemed like a trajectory towards increasingly mild winters before I left the state.

How so? All I can figure is winter is supposed to be cold and snowy so California only hears about the extremes like a 60F day in January

Because Californians, being more liberal than average, are more likely to buy into the climate change narrative. Confirmation bias does the rest.

But anyone actually "buying into the climate change narrative" knows that the result isn't warmer winters.