Weather is like a yo yo...Live with it...
I will admit that I am an uneducated white deplorable.
I have spent my whole life working outside. Even though I ain’t no scientist I can tell you that some years are colder than others, some times it rains more than normal, sometimes it gets really hot.
I always used Thanksgiving as the cutoff for getting any digging done. After Thanksgiving the hard freeze can come at any time. This year we have had frozen ground for two weeks already. Last year we didn’t get that until into December.
Therefore, after 45 years of conducting real life experiments I have concluded that the weather, or climate, ALWAYS changes.
And I know this for a fact because only 7500 years ago my land would have been covered with ice a few miles thick but it melted for some weird reason.
Nevada road departments re using this brine. Works quite well, altho I don’t know the salinity of it.