[Nowhere Man]

It’s the 10th of July and our high here in northern Ohio was 71.That’s about 20 degrees cooler than expected.I think that we could already be in trouble.

I'm beginning to wonder myself, I live in Eastern Ohio, in the Wheeling/Steubenville area but work near Pittsburgh (I used to live near Pittsburgh until Mom passed away). It is not too hot here wither but very humid and LOTS. LOTS of rain. AS you put it, it's 20 degrees cooler than we expected or at least 10 degrees cooler. I also remember cool and rainy summers back in the 1970's too but we had high sunspot numbers then. I remember shooting skip on the CB radio and talked to Mexico, Compton, CA, Texas, etc., as well as hearing Cuba and New Mexico on our old fire department frequency of 33.760 Mc.

Being a ham radio operator, I think 10 and 6 meter DX will suck, I'm bummed since I'd love to give 6 meters a whirl at some point.

Something funny is going on here too. I don't know if it is me or not but the sun seem to be more white than yellow as well.

[Cold Heat]

The sun appears quite normal recently..Winter was cold in part because the sun was in a minimum and entering a new cycle. it is well into that cycle now as the pictures show.

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html