Piggy-backing on the fictional history, if that is to your liking, I highly recommend "Fatherland" by Robert Harris. The premise is that the Nazis won WW2...good read with a tad of old school "film noire."
Mother Nature is a fickle woman. In my 52 years on this planet the strangest back to back winters was '82 and '83. In '82 we had snow and extreme cold(that would have been the year of the big flood in Fort Wayne when the spring thaw came). FFWD to '83 and it was 60 all winter. One of the coldest winters followed by the warmest.
Great topic.
Saw this on the Fort Wayne news tonight....
https://www.koco.com/article/bodycam-video-woman-becomes-aggressive-with-officer-after-refusing-to-sign-ticket/28545647#
This is going around on FB....
https://people.com/crime/man-who-killed-himself-possible-suspect-delphi-murders/amp/?fbclid=IwAR1D_nd7Tb-jN9GSEC8Q4Y_AF8KDAR3TpqoMaKCAQ9yOF-vIP1TECX6ZW44