Global Warming - Yeah, Right!!

[Rickman]

I might be sorry next week, but all the local weathermen said yesterday was the coolest July 8th in recorded weather history in the Chicago area!! Official high was 65 degrees!!
At least the air conditioners got a break around here!!

 

[naturegirl240]

I know! Western New York has never been so cold in the summer! It used to be 90 degrees almost every day but this year we are lucky to get day in the 80s.

 

[TillyChinchilla]

I hate the weather here so far this year. Not cold enough in the winter, too humid and hot in the summer. Lately it has been better, but we had about 2 weeks of 90 degree days with 95% humidity.

I spent summer in Richmond, VA last year - what a disaster. Could barely go outside without feeling like I was going to melt. I liked it except for the heat.

 

[gella]

I feel like all the glaciers are melting and raining all over NH, ughghghg! We had about 27 days of rain last month.

 

[mishellyshel]

this has been one of the strangest few months, last month is rained almost every day and now in july it is not hot. i am almost afraid of august!

 

[Sasha]

Our high for the next week is 71F and our low is 37F. Gardens are not going to like that 37F!

 

[Kalandra]

I know my garden is hating the weather. Nothing is really growing. Surprisingly my tomatillo plants are growing and are full of fruit. They are actually almost as tall as the corn plants! Yes my corn plants are trying to figure out how to uproot and take a vacation in the southern states.

 

[CTChin]

I heard on the news today we are in another El Nino pattern.

 

[AZChins]

We had a very nice June here with temperatures under the normal averages. But, it's getting really hot now with a wonderful low pressure system. It's going to be 109° in Tucson or something really hot this weekend. Where I live it will probably get to be over 100°, which doesn't happen much!

 

[seachin]

Climate Change

The educational and scientific community have not called it global warming for awhile because too many people were misunderstanding the actual occurances which happen around the world, which is why we now call it "climate change".

Climate change, as the name alludes to, means that historical climatic patterns are essentially thrown out of whack. So what you see is cold and rainy when it is normally warm and dry, and vice versa. For example, here in Seattle we are accustomed to showers/rain every week or two during the summer, but we have had several days over 85 (not typical) and it has not rained significantly here for a couple months.

These alterations in the normal expected weather patterns are being recorded around the world...and yes, we are officially going into an El Nino year, though I doubt there will be much decrease in the weird weather occurrences if we don't get control over carbon emissions.

 

[Jenn]

It has been very hot here in the NW with very little rainfall, which is unusual for us. Global warming is showing up here!

 

[blue_soda025]

It's been a weird summer here. It was boiling hot at the end of spring (near 30 C for a week or two) and now it's cooled down to around 20 C in mid July?! I think I preferred the boiling hot weather over cloudy/rainy/dreary weather. : | I had plans to go to the beach and biking and other outdoor activities but this weather is preventing me from doing so. =/

 

[tunes]

We should be dead in the middle of a drought. We have a rainy season, if you can call it that, until the first week of June tops. After that, we are so dry you want to scream. The ground cracks, the grass turns brown. Not this year. We're lucky if we get two or three days without a huge downpour. Nobody can get their lawn mowed. You have to race out and do it when the weather settles, then you beat the heck out of your mower because it's so wet. We're used to tornado season and being on the edge of your seat when the weather gets bad, but we're not used to having it nonstop like this. Corn this year is going to be awful. I'm not sure if any of the farmers out here were even able to get in the fields for planting.

Early this morning we had quite a weather adventure, and I've got the broken windows to prove it. Well, that and the bald trees. It looks like fall here in SD because all the leaves were knocked off by the 60 mph winds and the hail. I keep wanting to go out and look at my car, but I haven't had time to remove the covering of leaves to see what damage it did.

Tonight they are predicting worse.

Oh

joy...............