Posted on 07/29/2014 6:08:36 PM PDT by Steely Tom
I just thought I would point out - as a matter of curiosity - that here we are, at the end of July, about to go into August, and the temperature at my house (in upstate New York) is at present 51° F.
When I was growing up in this same neck of the woods, we would typically have a week or so of temperatures above 90° right about now, and a few times would go over 100°, at least for a day or two.
Also interesting to note that - at this very moment - "AccuWeather" is saying that the temperature at my house is 69° F, a full eighteen degrees hotter than the actual temperature.
We hit 67 today.
You’re right. This is very cool. Normally Augusts are blistering hot and dry.
However, my garden is going gangbusters, so it’s a trade off.
Should be a good apple crop as well.
My outdoor thermometer is now showing 49° though.
Yet somehow I doubt that it will move the needle on Michael Mann's hockey stick even a single pixel.
Only hit 84 here in DFW today.
Goebbels Warming is old news - it climate now dude. Everything that happens, cold or heat, flood and drought, fire and ice, rags and riches, they’re all proof that humans are evildoers. It’s so much easier to do new science when everything proves your hypothesis.
I feel the same way. The high today here in central Indiana was maybe, just maybe, 72. We’re about 20 degrees off I think. The low this morning was 52.
We decided to make a trip to the beach in Florida a couple of weeks from now, just in case next winter is cold and long like last year. I hope it’s at least 80 when we go. Summer should have temps in the 80-100 range, IMHO.
I moved from Atlanta to Albuquerque a few months ago. I think our summer is over here. Starting in late June, we saw mid 90s every day (that’s comfortable with the low humidity we have), but long-term projections are now for mid 80s starting tomorrow, with overnight lows around 60. I thought August was supposed to be the hottest month here.
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I’m in Southwest PA new Pittsburgh and when I let for work this morning, I thought, dang, it’s really cold for July. It fees like late September or early October.
Apparently the polar vortex is still wobbling around up north somewhere - I hope it stabilizes before about December because we deserve a break from another winter as cold and snowy as last year.....
I am in Northeast PA in the Poconos this morning - - 46 degrees at 7 AM.
When I was growing up in New England area during the 1970s, our summers were much hotter than they are now. We would never dip into the 50s at night during July and August (unless maybe you were up in the NH or Maine forests) and we would have long stretches of 90+ degree days with haze and humidity.
I used to like the hazy, hot, humid days of summer. Sit on the front porch at night (because it was too hot to be indoors) with iced drinks and listen to Top 40 on the AM portable while watching heat lightning dance across the horizon and if we were lucky, a cooling thundershower would eventually come over us.
It just doesn't get that hot anymore, at least in the Northeast. In just a few short weeks, it will start dipping into the 40s at night and I'll have to turn the heating system back on again.
When I was growing up in New England area during the 1970s, our summers were much hotter than they are now. We would never dip into the 50s at night during July and August (unless maybe you were up in the NH or Maine forests) and we would have long stretches of 90+ degree days with haze and humidity.
I used to like the hazy, hot, humid days of summer. Sit on the front porch at night (because it was too hot to be indoors) with iced drinks and listen to Top 40 on the AM portable while watching heat lightning dance across the horizon and if we were lucky, a cooling thundershower would eventually come over us.
It just doesn't get that hot anymore, at least in the Northeast. In just a few short weeks, it will start dipping into the 40s at night and I'll have to turn the heating system back on again.
In my many decades of life, I’ve always found one really cold winter to be followed by at least one more. One really hot summer to be followed by at least one more.
The last time this happened on the cold side was 77/78, iirc.
So, I’d start collecting firewood now. I’d also lock in a propane contract now.
I had 51 here in southern Ohio just an hour ago. This week and next week are normally the very hottest of the year around here.
I lived in Cleveland for 30 years and remember the reduction in snow accumulation when Lake Erie was frozen.
Having said that, it also meant it was darn cold even if it didn’t snow as much.
Went down that road as a kid in Kentucky, painful! Blistering hot salt water bath finally killed those itchy goomers.
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