[freddie_mercury]

> I found interesting that my grandma labeled the it "a summer like the summers we were used to long time ago".

Old people often make fact-free claims about how things used to be.

We don't need to rely on faulty human memories. There are actual records of water levels, rainfall, and temperature for all of the 20th century.

It is simply not true that the past summer was something that occurred frequently in the past.

[Udik]

> Old people often make fact-free claims about how things used to be.

It's fun, because if there is something that is really a cliché is people complaining that the weather is not what it used to be. This has been going on for far longer than there has been any talk of climate change. So every time I hear someone saying that you can see climate change is happening because the weather is not what it used to be, I take it with a double pinch of salt.

Alternatively, the existence of the cliche might suggest that (some) climate change is always happening, just on a timescale that makes old people complain, and everybody else just be incredulous.

[chimprich]

> Old people often make fact-free claims about how things used to be.

It probably isn't a faulty memory, just one of our inbuilt recall biases. Human minds tend to remember extreme events more vividly. If you think back to past years you most easily bring to mind the unusually hot summers and most biting winters.