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Thing is, it's really not that cold. We've just forgotten how to deal with it.
Granted the cold seems to be making it a lot farther south, but for most people this used to be normal.
There is a pattern: more persistent heat waves, more persistent cold waves, more persistent wet and dry periods. On a planet that is a bit hotter on average, we get "more weather".