So, here we are again with another cool, rainy summer. This is three years in a row now in Ottawa where summers have disappeared. We used to get hot, muggy days and nights, and now we’re lucky to reach 23 C during the day and sometimes nights have fallen to 8.
So this is global warming, is it? I still call bullshit on that. We have had increasingly cooler summers and winters for about 5 years now, and although I don’t have the stats in front of me, apparently overall global temperatures have been declining for about 8 or 9 years now. Where’s the global warming? It ain’t happening here.
After a very rainy spring and early summer, a tree in my front yard[sup]*[/sup] fell over and took out a utility pole. Police, fire department, six utility trucks, one new pole, and thirteen hours later, the power was back on. If the tree had gone a different direction, it could have been a lot worse.
I live in an apartment on the side of a house, so it’s my landlord who has to deal with things like that. Still, it was a hell of a mess.
I was wondering the same thing. We are having the coolest summer I can ever remember in Ohio. I’m thinking it would be a good idea to get a whole-house fan to suck in the cold night air.
It was awfully nice of you to share a little bit of it yesterday, and we’re awfully grateful about it, but once a month still seems awfully greedy.
In exchange, we can send the CUPE strike talks over to Ottawa for a week or two. That amount of hot air ought to hike up your temperatures by at least 5C.
Given that we’re in a serious drought, experiencing record heat, are subject to restrictive water rationing, have lost our corn crop, see ranchers selling their stock because there’s no graze and our drought-stressed trees being decimated by bark beetles, ummm… what was it again you were complaining about?
What say we do a little weather sharing? These extremes aren’t doing anyone any good.
Yeah, it’s been ridiculously cool here in Baltimore, as well. This is my first summer here, so I don’t know what it’s supposed to be like, but all the natives keep saying that this whole summer has been unseasonably cool. Most nights, I’ve been able to keep the windows open, but during the day I’m still running the AC because it’s been really humid, and I’ve already seen mold on my basement walls.
We have had slightly more than a week of hot days. We’ve had sunny and cloudy days, but usually no rain. It’s currently 64F. and after almost a day of drizzly stuff the amount has reached 1/2 inch. this is something to cheer about. The cold is a problem as nothing that requires heat has grown since the one week hot spell.
I live about a half-hour south of Annapolis, and yes, it’s been a wonderfully temperate summer so far. We’ve still got August ahead, but getting this deep into July with as few obnoxiously hot+humid days as we’ve had has been great.
We desperately need rain. In the past 25 days, the temp has been over 100 for 23 days. The next week is also forecast to have temps over 100. It was 109 and 106 the past few days. I actually went up to Houston and was able to “cool off” for a few days. I can’t remember the last time it rained. A year ago this week, hurricane “Dolly” came through, but this year there haven’t been any named storms–not hoping for a hurricane, but we sure need some drought relief, like Lieu said.
I’ve decided I’m never washing my car again, having determined that doing so is apparently part of some demonic ritual that calls down rain.
I didn’t get around to washing last winter’s crap off my car until late May. Took it to the car wash, and made it sparkle. That very night … thunderstorm.
A week later, after several consecutive days of clear, sunny, 70-degrees+ weather, I washed it again. Two days later … thunderstorm.
Washed it again in the middle of June, after another stretch of warm, sunny days. Rain the next day.
And one more time, second week of July. Two solid weeks of hot (80-90 degrees), sunny weather. Heavy rain two days later.
I’m hoping for just a few hot nights so that my 'maters will ripen. Otherwise, I’m loving this record setting summer in Ohio. High of 71 last week, in the 80’s this week. Woo hoo!
It’s July and they’re predicting it won’t hit 70F tomorrow without rain to account for that. This is our reward for a terrible snowy winter (2x normal snowfall amounts for the 2nd year in a row)? Jeez. Don’t forget folks, just because it’s cooler all year 'round is no reason to stop panicking about global warming!
well, my experience 100 miles east of Ottawa is that I have never seen a cooler, wetter “summer” and I am looking for green tomato recipes (but the lettuce and peas have done wonderfully well). And last summer was unusually cool too. but the recent winters have been relatively mild. On the other hand, my son in Seattle has experienced unusual amounts of hot dry weather.
What they have always said about global warming is that it would result in unusual weather patterns, so I don’t think you can draw any inferences from this cool wet weather. We have had only one day with a high above 30 (86 F) and not much above either.
It finally got hot here a couple of weeks ago. Heated up to 115 or so. Now, it is that ugly monsoon weather. Right now showing 103 and 18% humidity, ugh!
Looks like Phoenix will get a bit more tolerable over the next few days. Back up to 111 or so, but lower humidity.
I’m confused. Are you saying that 18% humidity is higher than you’d like, or am I totally misreading what you’re saying?
I can’t even comprehend what it would be like with 18% humidity. Even during the winter when it’s so dry that the skin on the backs of my fingers crack and bleeds the humidity doesn’t go below 30%. Right now it’s 88% which doesn’t make it too warm given it’s all of 67F (still been hell on my lungs all week, though. goddamn asthma trigger), but humidity in the 80-100% level isn’t unusual even when it reaches the high 90s - not that it’s going to this “summer”!
Replace “Ottawa” with “Montreal” and that’s pretty much exactly what I would have written. I think we’ve managed to set a record of one consecutive day of sun. I’m a pasty white person even when I tan, but at the moment I’m downright ghostly. I am sick of this crappy summer and I want the sun!
There has been a move to reterm the occurence “Global Climate Change” because while the global average temperature is rising, how different locales are actually affected will vary.
We did actually go below 2000’s temperature last year, but the general drift has been upward.
