Beam Me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/08/2008 5:58:46 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - If Americans in many states felt hot last month there was good reason because it was the 30th warmest July on record, using data going back to 1895, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency said Friday.
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina did an analysis of weather records dating back to 1895 to draw conclusions, the agency announced in an emailed statement Friday.
Researchers said they found:
* July temperatures were generally higher than average across the West and Northeast and below average in the Midwest.
* Five states (Conn., Mass., N.J., R.I. and Utah) were much warmer than average. Rhode Island had its sixth warmest July, and Massachusetts and Utah both had their eighth warmest July, based on statewide data going back to 1895. Six states (Ill., Ind., Ky., Mo., N.M. and W.Va.) were cooler than average.
* Based on NOAA's Residential Energy Demand Temperature Index, contiguous U.S. temperature-related energy demand was approximately three percent above average in July.
Yeesh! These people make me totally nuts.
To make things even worse, yesterday was the 18’th longest day of the year!
113th warmest July since 1895!! Global warming!
it has been hot here in the mid-Atlantic, but not the way the global warmers predict, that is with extremely hot highs; just a lot of days in the low 90’s.
My God! That was close! Imagine if it had been the 29th warmest! These people are really trying their darndest to keep the panic alive! Sometimes I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!
We only had three days over 90 degrees this year. Compare this to 1980 when we had 22 consecutive days over 100 degrees!
Warmest, not hardly.
In fact, I'd stated that we appear to be heading toward another mini Ice Age.
I was just telling Mrs. Eagle, "Honey, it's gotta be 3% warmer this year than last."
As usual, she just rolled her eyes.
Wow, to be in the “top 30” in a century...... well that’s obviously catastrophic!! And if any of the other “top 30” occurred in the 1st half of the 20th Century, as I imagine some did, well obviously the SUVs had been cranked out by the hundreds of millions back then too. I seem to remember Henry Ford announcting the “Model T, SUV Special” back around 1912 or so.......
Only #30? Jeeze, no wonder my sidewalk eggs have been so runny this year.
My 96 year old Great Uncle said that this was the first July in his life where the temp never reached 100 even once in his neck of the woods.
San Antonio was only 105F. Black flag most of my BMT. It was a relief.
Guys from up north suffered.
/johnny
I was in KS in ‘00 (I think) end of August, you had the first 100 degree day of the summer, but you really had a hot September, you may get it yet.
So... what color ribbon would that correspond to in, say, fair judging terms?
('The 113th annual county fair prize for the 30th best dairy cow goes to Megan Kerfluffenberger and her holstein "Hillary!" To them goes the chartreuse ribbon.')
Mr. niteowl77
A fraction of a second on Carl Sagan’s cosmic clock; an interval almost too brief to measure. But by all means, let’s wreck the global economy based on that data.
We have yet to hit 90 degrees this summer in Wisconsin, and in the ‘Augusts of My Youth’ we were as steamy and hot as any Florida or Louisiana swamp. ;)
So, I’m jumping on the ‘Global Cooling Bandwagon,’ which works better for me since I look totally HOT in leggings, rag socks, Army Bunny Boots and big, fluffy, hand-knit sweaters, LOL!
ROFLMAO! :)
No, just like nobody died at Three Mile Island. Yet we haven’t built a Nuke Plant since because people “think” it was a deadly catastrophe.
Question: How many people died because of the heatwave of July 2008?
Hint: One less than died in Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile.
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