My mother tells me a story of the year I was born (some time before the turn of the millennia), and apparently, winter that year was insane. There are pictures of baby me wrapped up in more wool that I've ever seen in one place. These days, however, a shawl is good enough for me. For fashion, more than anything else.

So, winter isn't missing. It's there if you walk out of the urban disasters that are our cities, but winter has changed. That's what you'll see if you look at the graphs, that's what you feel when you think back to the past and look at the present. We all have a tentative idea as to why that is and how it's going to change more in the future, but it's always humbling to look around and see it happen in real time. Especially as another year starts in the 21st century and somehow, the climate isn't the number 1 worry most of us have.