1954 Article Explains Brian Williams/Jeff Masters Derangement Syndrome: ‘The changes in climate that people think they experience are seldom real’
'Extremes of heat or cold, of drought or rainfall, occur at intervals, many years apart. Because those of childhood seem most dramatic, they are longest remembered, and we are easily tempted to compare present average weather with the remembered extremes. These extremes, how- ever, can be expected to recur, and do not constiute a lasting change'