Remember how hot it used to get before 'global warming'?

americanthinker.com ^ | 6/30/2018 | Jack Hellner

[21twelve]

I grew up in Minnesota with no a/c. Cold in the winters, but hot in the summers. (We live in Seattle now. The kids hear about going to Minnesota for a summer trip and go “But its soooo hot there!!!!”)

As a kid I used to tickle myself laying in bed - it gave me goosebumps which made it feel cooler. I’m not sure why my parents didn’t just put us all down in the basement to sleep - it was always cooler down there.

When my folks were growing up they had screened in porches they would go sleep out in.

Here in Seattle it is 65 and drizzle today. Fairly common, although we did have a bunch of dry weeks earlier and even hit 80 I think. Most years it is like this until July 4 - then they hit a switch and it is upper 70’s, low 80’s the rest of the time, with 5 to 10 90 degree days.

Just looked it up - forecast is 66-67 until Monday. Tuesday is 73, the 4th is 80.

[Intolerant in NJ]

For no particular reason at all except to see what I could see, I started keeping a log of record high info for the Philly area as presented by one of the local TV weather girls - started last April - since she doesn't present the info every night, I've got only 14 entries, but they do represent a random sample since she seems to present them when she has time and gets around to it - format is: Date, average high, record high (date of record high);
April 9, 62, 90 (1929); April 16, 64, 88 (1941); April 18, 65, 94 (1976); April 21, 66, 89 (1979); April 23, 67, 91 (1960); April 29, 69, 90 (1974); May 13, 73, 93 (1881); May 19, 75, 96 (1962); May 25, 77, 96 (1991); June 6, 80, 100 (1925); June 8, 81, 99 (2011); June 11, 82, 95 (1986); June 12, 82, 95 (2015); June 25, 85, 98 (1952).
I know, I know, it's much too small a sample, and I don't account for biases such as that she might not present the material on nights when there are weather extremes which would invalidate randomness and on and on - but still it is remarkable to me that for the three months from early April to late June the range of record highs as captured here is only 12 degrees, from 88 to 100 - as recorded in the years 1941 and 1925 respectively - the earliest date of a record high was 1881 - and that high of 93 was exactly mid-range - global warming indeed......

[Pontiac]

Remember the articles in PopSci or PopMech about global cooling and the schemes to spray the poles with black soot?

I remember one plan to grind coal and sprinkle it on snow.

[Pontiac]

I’ve noticed the weather has been changing too.

Yep, me too.

Just a few months ago it cold and snowing.

I don’t know about Global Warming but it sure is warm here!

[misanthrope]

Summer of 1980; 100 consecutive days over 100f in Ft. Worth.

Had a hell of a hailstorm that Spring, I was roofing.

[Sequoyah101]

I was living in Midland that year. There had been more rain there than in Fort Smith. I flew in to OKC and from the air the earth looked like it had been pounded flat to a dusty pulp. I have never complained about rain again.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Opps - just got the July 1st info - record high for the Philly area was 102 - in 1901 - looks more and more like global cooling......