[re_nortex]

While this is anecdotal, it does prove a point. During the month of July, swimmers at the outdoor pool in my neighborhood were complaining about how the water was cool. And, in my opinion, it was. Back in 2011 when we had that string of over 70 days of 100+ degree days, it was like bathwater and not really refreshing.

The facts are that Texas is hot and dry in the summer. It keeps the liberal riffraff away. They can stay in the miserable, depressing, clammy and uncomfortable places like Seattle and Portland.

[mylife]

This has been a relatively cool summer, but we are way low on water.

[moehoward]

"clammy and uncomfortable places like Seattle and Portland."

Not this year. Western WA has been like typical Los Angeles weather. Absolutely spectacular around here this year.

[reformedliberal]

I’m in Wisconsin. We have gone back to the weather of the 70s, with 75-80 in the day and 50s, sometimes 40s, at night. We had warm years in the late 80s-late 90s.

Haven’t used the pool because it takes the propane heater all day to get it up warm enough to swim and then we lose 6 degrees overnight. And this is even with a plastic dome over the water.

The cool nights are delaying tomatoes from ripening, especially since they went in 2 weeks late due to a cool, wet June.

OTOH, my electric bill is lower. We used a/c for about a week or so in July.

Weather is always changing. Everyone needs to deal with it. I am all for these folks forecasting doom and gloom. It is then amusing to see them “hummana, hummana” when it doesn’t turn out as they predicted.