Permanent shift of climate expectations?

This week in the United States has been pretty freaky for weather. Snow and wind in Iowa, lashing cold
rain back in DC, and the first days of baseball seeming pretty out of place.

Assuming that this particular spate of strange weather is due to climate change, I have a specific question — will our expectations be forever altered?

We – and all of nature – expect certain ranges of weather at certain times. We think it should be warmer in the spring and then progressing steadily to summer. All flora and fauna thrive in certain places based on these expectations.

What if those are no longer operative…for the foreseeable future? The really serious forecasts on climate change aren’t even for this decade but for 2040 – 2100.

What if animals (humans and other) can never really rely on past expectations again. What of our picnics? Our ski vacations?

Did we put our summer homes in the right place?

Does Vermont actually become a livable climate?

Where will cities spring up?

Who will win? Who will lose?