Posted on 09/14/2006 7:51:53 PM PDT by TheEaglehasLanded
I am very doubtful on these numbers, in 1936 Springfield, IL had 25 days above 100 and 69 days above 90 and had an average summer temperature of 94.
This year we had one hot week with temps in the high 90's and August was cool.
How do you compare one year to another for the entire country? I've tried to do that for one town. Average temperature is meaningless. The number of consecutive hot / cold days seems to be the better measurement. But you can have some long hot-spells and the average is low.
It will be hotter on the west coast and cooler on the east coast. How do you say the country was hotter or cooler?
It's been hot here in Texas which is not unusual.
Yeah, heard it was hot down south. We've had high 60's and low 70's mostly. I think it was 90 one day this week then it got cool again. It was almost blustery today. High of 70 forcast for tomorrow. Sept and Oct are usually the warmest months along Northern CA coast.
Following my time in the Navy, I was finishing up college in Champaign, Ill, not so far from Springfield.
We had a stretch of one week during which the high temperature was minus 20. Was this global freezing? I think it was. It's just as valid based on the data as the wacko's on the left think as far as global bloviating.
That's what I thought. Plenty of time for a southern blizzard before Summer's end.
Wimpy summer in MA. One hot week. I spent very little time in my pool, unlike other recent years.
The people are making these numbers up. Our summer was probably cooler than average. Spring was beautiful and cool also.
It failed to break the record by 0.23 degrees.
Hardly a record here according to my electric bills for this summer.
It's supposed to snow here in Idaho tonight.
Sorry, Las Vegas has most of its high temperatures were either in the 90's or in the 40s and mostly in the 40's. (In the 40's, there was no 'industry' in Las Vegas and no cars to speak of so the global warming must have come from the dirt). At some point, global warming will hit Las Vegas and then it will really get hot in the summer.
Here in Mobile, one of the wettest cities in the US, we had the driest summer ever recorded. But, no hurricanes. (So far)
It said it was the warmest January - August period in 112 years of nationwide recordkeeping.
Springfield, IL was only 1/2 degree above normal for the summer. 2004 was the coldest summer since 1879 at 70 degrees. 1936 averaged above 80 degrees for day and night temperatures.
We're all gonna' die!
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Unfortunately, this is beginning to resemble some misbegotten religion. I've heard quite enough of it too.
Aside from that one stretch in early July when it hit 115, NorCal has been cooler than normal for the last three years, it seems to me.
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