Atlanta cold snap: Why is it sweater weather in the South?

Christian Science Monitor ^ | August 16, 2013 | Patrik Jonsson

[jmacusa]

Getting chilly here on The Jersey Shore. I think we’re in for a cold and very snowy winter.

[RedStateGuyTrappedinCT]

We had about 2 weeks of sweltering weather in July, but since Aug started it’s felt like early fall. Not that I’m complaining, but where’s all this global warming?

[EBH]

Oddly cold here too...

Cold enough at night the maple trees are turning color already.

Personally, I attribute much of this to the ongoing axis tilt of the earth.

[Monty22002]

Jet stream going up and down as it does.

[Gamecock]

I played gold in Atlanta yesterday. Wore long pants and for the front 9 wore a sweater. Tee time was 0700. Temp was maybe 64.

[DeaconRed]

Here in Central Florida it is 165 degrees in the shade and will be until about October.
I am in Florida on one condition. . . . .
Air Condition. . . .

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Supposed to be even cooler today.

[Hot Tabasco]

a short-term trend

Solar activity is in its low cycle so we've got about another 7 - 10 years (depending on when it officially started) of cold ahead of us.......

Not looking forward to it

[billhilly]

“I played gold in Atlanta yesterday. Wore long pants and for the front 9 wore a sweater. Tee time was 0700. Temp was maybe 64.”

I played here in Mississippi and I played the Blue tees.

[muir_redwoods]

Because of that SUV I don’t have?

[relictele]

You are clearly a tiltist.

Enlightened Occupy types know that weather and climate are caused by running the AC at 70 deg.

[Will88]

Turned the car heater on yesterday mid-morning while traveling not too far from Atlanta.

[kenmcg]

“Interior Secretary: I don’t want any climate-change deniers in my department”

[norwaypinesavage]

"I attribute much of this to the ongoing axis tilt of the earth."

Including a bit of precession, the earth continues to have about the same tilt it has had for the last several billion years. Please explain how this accounts for a cooler than normal summer?

[sergeantdave]

Even mosquitoes are wearing sweaters at night.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I attribute much of this to the ongoing axis tilt of the earth.

The axial tilt ("obliquity of the ecliptic") is decreasing at 47" seconds of arc per century! If this keeps up, by the 179th Century, there won't be any axial tilt at all!

[Broker]

The SUN is our heat source. The impact of Sun spots and magnetic shifts dwarf Algores carbon scams.

[EBH]

http://youtu.be/fHS042a-Nb0

Have some fun with this video...

[M Kehoe]

I knew a girl once who had a tilt. She had one leg. Her name was Eileen.

Sorry.

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