They went on forever and they, when I, we lived in Arizona and the skies always had little fluffy clouds in them and, er they were long and clear and there were lots of stars at night and, er, when it would rain it would all turn, it, they were beautiful, the most beautiful skies, as a matter of fact...

There were way, way, way more bugs. Yesterday I spent about 12 hours on the highway, and I didn't need to pull over to clean my windshield once. 20-30 years ago my windshield and headlights would be completely plastered after a few hours.

Me and my friends would go out at night and see how many lightning bugs we could catch. We would do this every summer night. My dad made us a couple of big containers with wire mesh lids so none ever got hurt.

We always had them filled and glowing like some crazy looking lantern out of a steampunk game. We would let them out to fly away when we were done but they would be everywhere as thick as you could see when the sun when down.

Now I think I have been lucky to catch one or two after dark.

Night sky had the Milky Way. Same place now, can probably only see a hundred stars total.

The skies were full of birds. Like 50 times what we have today.

I remember stars covering the sky in a shower of light. Not just a few here and there, but the literal Milky Way band. Light pollution has grown at a concerning pace in my own lifetime and I wonder what it will look like when my children are grown.

Little Fluffy Clouds

Roughly the same. I remember more lightning bugs, though, if they count as "sky." Not sure if that was peculiar to where I was living at the time, outside Memphis, Tennessee.

Concord's roaring overhead. Miss those planes.

1% chance of a single cloud being in the sky

0.00005% chance of a thunderstorm

-50% chance of snow

The sky is completely white some days. Not clouds, but LITERAL SAND.

You can cook an egg using only the sun.

One more thing: when it rains, it's usually only for a few seconds. I repeat: seconds.

Little fluffy clouds.

Much cloudier

Ah, the old "contrails/chemtrails didn't exist when I was young" argument. Yes, they did; you didn't look up when you were a kid.

I live in CA. So about the same lol. I'm tired of our shades of summer though