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RE: Climate Change or a Temporary Anomaly?
It has gone up by about a degree and a half (C) here, too.
But during those 30 years the land use has changed from corn fields and cow pastures to housing developments, business complexes, and parking lots, so I'd be surprised if it hadn't warmed, regardless of what's happening at the global scale.
I miss the cold weather as long as I'm nice and warm in the house. ;-)
Your observations are very interesting as it is a different continent. Apparently, this trend is global.
I live very close to the Carpathian Mountains. Traditionally, there are many forests here. But every year new areas are cut down and resorts or other buildings are built in their place. This greatly affects the local small rivers, of which there are many. Now there are frequent floods here, and some rivers may dry up in the summer.
You are quite right. The accumulation of heat by asphalt and concrete is fundamentally different from the accumulation of heat by forest or fields.