[BIGLOOK]

Record keeping in the US began around 1886 or 1888, the year my grandfather was born. That's only about 125 years ago, give or take, and before that there was Poor Richard's Almanack, whose guesses were most times more accurate than those of the today's weather services.....and more honest as well.

It's hot in the east accompanied by violent storms, there's drought in the west accompanied by raging fires and conflicting reports on the news about the ice caps and CO2 levels in the atmosphere. The weather is something everyone has had to deal with throughout the millenia not just over the past 125 years where it receives prime time on tv and radio, whose morning reports can be forgotten by afternoon and in print whose reports when inaccurate are never retracted.

Suppose we could all do what the 576 folks in Foggy Bottom do in summer time.....vacation or campaign in their districts a redress to the inclement summer time weather. Or maybe the chilling at the All Star game representing their favorite team's players, sitting in box seats with a/c.

Send me a wooly bear, Ernest so I can figure the weather later this year and I'll e-mail you the arrival of the first plovers here so you can forecast yours.

[Fledermaus]

So? It just proves we haven’t recorded enough data to make a conclusion.

[AlaskaErik]

It sure would be nice if some of that heat would migrate up to Alaska. Our summer has been so cold we’ve turned the heat back on, used the fireplace and I’m wearing my winter shirts. I expect to see frost any day now!

[Rastus]

Fortunately, it’s been a much cooler summer in Texas than last year.

[aruanan]

Aren’t these the guys who, under the leadership of Hansen, have been caught adjusting older temperatures down and more recent temperature up to make the slight temperature rise since 1885 look much more dramatic? The most recent big story is that a 2000 year temperature reconstruction has found that both the Roman and Medieval Warm periods had actually been much warmer than believed making the past two millennia an overall period of cooling. We’re at the low end. The hottest years in the last century have been, in order, 1921, 1934, and 1933. Des Moines, for instance, during 1933 had 31 days of 100+ temperatures, two of them in May, most of them well above 100, up to 112. Before this year, there was a single day that made 100 in Des Moines in the previous 9 years. Interestingly, for the month of June, the average temperature for the U.S. stayed about even with the previous year. It was just that there were some parts in the middle that were unusually hot while parts of the east and west coasts were unusually cold. I believe that 25 states had record low temperatures for the month of June.

[Hotmetal]

You think it’s hot now...........just wait until I get back to the States.

[Eye of Unk]

Quite the opposite in Alaska, had a record snowfall last winter, and now the coldest summer is about to be a record. I had two days of over 70 degree days so far. Barely got over 60 in the last couple of weeks here. This is Wasilla, AK.

[CedarDave]

See this article for an explanation:

Current Global Weather Patterns Normal Despite Government and Media Distortions

[TigersEye]

The mainland United States, ..., has experienced the warmest 12 months since record-keeping began in 1895,

117 year's worth of records (incomplete and sketchy at that) on a 4.5 billion year old planet. pfft