I agree with you that's how they look at it. That's why one hot day is global warming always. Even though for the previous week it was below normal. One day and wow global warming. And it's every fking one of em.It is still BSk for my region.
You apparently have no idea how WIDE weather events cycles over time and still not change the climate of the region.
You think that a small snowpack downward trend over 4 decades is climate change when the classification of the region in question remains the same now as it was in the 1950's.
It still snows a lot in the same areas after decades of oscillating from high (Record snow at paradise lodge in 1971) to just 10% of the average snowfall totals in one year yet the climate is still the same since it is still cold and snowy in the mountains and the glaciers oscillates back and forth in the regions as it is normal phenomenon.
It is clear you think any change at all is proof of climate change when it is just weather oscillating around an average over a few decades time.