Man has lived alone in Colorado ghost town for 40 years

In 1972 billy barr (he spells it lowercase) was a Rutgers University environmental science student and did some research in Gothic, Colorado, a ghost town built around a silver mine. The native New Jerseyan returned after graduation and has lived in the town as its sole full-time resident ever since. He has also taken meticulous snowfall and temperature measurements, which have proven valuable to climate scientists.

From Oddity Central:

The trend I see is that were getting permanent snow pack later, and we get to bare ground sooner, barr says. Well have years where there was a lot of snow on the ground, and then we lose snow sooner than years that had a lot less snow just because its a lot warmer now.