It snowed in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) today.  It was a wet snow.  Heavy to shovel, hard to drive in.  Most residents are used to dry snow conditions so the accident rate went up.

During the winter salt is generally not used on Edmontons roads (a gritty sand mixture instead) as salt is not that effective in ten dgrees below zero centigrade.  This is a quite common tempurature throughout our Northern winters.

The wet and slippery road conditions resulting from todays snowfall caused traffic havoc and many collisions resulted.  Edmontonians are not used to these type of road conditions at this time of year

In the past eight winters it did not snow until after halloween for five of them.   This year it snowed last week (wet snow) and again today.

Is this evidence of climate change?

For me, considering for example the first snowfall metric, the fact  first snowfall was before Oct 31st for five years and four years it was after Oct 31st shows a balance (This is random not sequential years either).

In general throughout my life experience, weather patterns (spring, summer,winter ,fall) are relatively constant and predictable.  Micro patterns within those seasons are not.

Are there more catastrophic weather events now as oppossed to thirty years ago.  Based on the things I have heard reported and lived through myself, not at all.

So do I observe climate change, subjectively speaking – no.  Does global warming exist and is climate change one of the results – objectively based on specific measures it appears to be the case.