Posted on 09/14/2006 7:51:53 PM PDT by TheEaglehasLanded
I am very doubtful on these numbers, in 1936 Springfield, IL had 25 days above 100 and 69 days above 90 and had an average summer temperature of 94.
This year we had one hot week with temps in the high 90's and August was cool.
SUMMER 2006 TEMPS FAIL TO BREAK RECORD SET IN 1936
Quick! Sombody post the "Oh Jeez, Not this sh*t again" dude.
No kidding? This is the coolest summer around here (CA) in years.
Ah! I like reading headlines like "Gas Futures Decline to Two-Year Low"
That must be why we've had all these damn hurricanes...
Oh, wait a minute...
Phoenix wasn't particularly hot this year we even had some 80 degree (high temp) days in August which is practically unheard of.
Does anybody actually believe this BS anymore? If the temperature went up every year as much as they say it does, it would be 175 degrees outside right now.
January is now part of summer?
And yes, January was record warm.
Second warmest summer, January - August? I didn't know January was summer.
I live in upstate New York.
Ooh, conservative harmonic mental convergence.
If a Republican had been President in 1936, global warming would have been very hard on the children and the salmon
More frequent, intensely good weather here this spring and summer.
Summer isn't over yet, is it?
Guess Bush didn't operate his weather machine this year.
Say what? It was sweltering here in Southern California. I was dreading August and September but it cooled off nicely.
I'd say the same for Michigan. We only had about two weeks in which the temperatures hovered around the 90-100 degree mark every day. Otherwise it seemed rather temperate. It was a rather WET summer, though.
Summer isn't over until the equinox on Sept 21. It has been very cool here in Virginia this month. Highs in the 60's and 70's.
i remember it well, that the year i started
How do you compare one year to another for the entire country? I've tried to do that for one town. Average temperature is meaningless. The number of consecutive hot / cold days seems to be the better measurement. But you can have some long hot-spells and the average is low.
It will be hotter on the west coast and cooler on the east coast. How do you say the country was hotter or cooler?
It's been hot here in Texas which is not unusual.
Yeah, heard it was hot down south. We've had high 60's and low 70's mostly. I think it was 90 one day this week then it got cool again. It was almost blustery today. High of 70 forcast for tomorrow. Sept and Oct are usually the warmest months along Northern CA coast.
Following my time in the Navy, I was finishing up college in Champaign, Ill, not so far from Springfield.
We had a stretch of one week during which the high temperature was minus 20. Was this global freezing? I think it was. It's just as valid based on the data as the wacko's on the left think as far as global bloviating.
That's what I thought. Plenty of time for a southern blizzard before Summer's end.
Wimpy summer in MA. One hot week. I spent very little time in my pool, unlike other recent years.
The people are making these numbers up. Our summer was probably cooler than average. Spring was beautiful and cool also.
It failed to break the record by 0.23 degrees.
Hardly a record here according to my electric bills for this summer.
It's supposed to snow here in Idaho tonight.
Sorry, Las Vegas has most of its high temperatures were either in the 90's or in the 40s and mostly in the 40's. (In the 40's, there was no 'industry' in Las Vegas and no cars to speak of so the global warming must have come from the dirt). At some point, global warming will hit Las Vegas and then it will really get hot in the summer.
Here in Mobile, one of the wettest cities in the US, we had the driest summer ever recorded. But, no hurricanes. (So far)
It said it was the warmest January - August period in 112 years of nationwide recordkeeping.
Springfield, IL was only 1/2 degree above normal for the summer. 2004 was the coldest summer since 1879 at 70 degrees. 1936 averaged above 80 degrees for day and night temperatures.
We're all gonna' die!
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Unfortunately, this is beginning to resemble some misbegotten religion. I've heard quite enough of it too.
Aside from that one stretch in early July when it hit 115, NorCal has been cooler than normal for the last three years, it seems to me.
That's the guy. Thanks.
I wonder if all our glaciers are melting.....
It's been very cool and wet here in Chi-town. There's a retention pond with a gauge down in the forest preserve, and it's been at very high level compared to the last few years.
I can't wait to see the press when we get another summer like we had in '87 or '88, whenever it was. June was like August with intense heat and drought, and silver lawns. The golf course was like concrete. They couldn't even water it because the ponds all dried up, but there was very little mention of global warming that I can recall. There's been nothing like that since, but it must inevitably recur, I should think.
"Second warmest summer, January - August? I didn't know January was summer. "
Climate gerrymandering.
Second warmest, eh? Does that mean global cooling?
All weather is local. Kids having fun with numbers means nothing.
Funny thing is, I live in NY, and for all of the Dems who surround me, one thing they almost never mention is global warming. When it comes up, it's always on a cold summer day "when's global warming going to get here?."
This despite or perhaps becuase of daily breathless articles in the Times Union proving Global Warming again and again. Each time the article says that the debate is now over.
WOW! It was almost as hot as it was 70 years ago! Quick! Sign Kyoto! Send our jobs to the 3rd world! We need to have Jesse Jackson apologize! Sing Kumbaya!
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