This week we鈥檝e seen a range of weather. We had a foot of snow and temperatures in the teens. Then it was 45 degrees and raining. Are these wild fluctuations caused by climate change? A Kent State geography professor says no. Cameron Lee says these types of ups and downs are normal.

鈥淏y the sheer nature of where we live in the mid latitude we鈥檙e going to get a lot of day to day weather changes, and we鈥檙e also going to get interannual changes meaning some winters we鈥檙e going to have snowier or colder winters and some winters we'll have dryer or warmer weather. Climate trends are showing that we鈥檙e getting slightly more persistence in our average everyday weather variability.鈥�

says other parts of the world are seeing more temperature and dew point changes including tropical regions, southwestern U.S. deserts, even Canada, but not Ohio.  

Lee acknowledges that climate change is a problem, but says it鈥檚 not to blame for the weather in our area.

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