So far, June's chill is one for the records ("global warming" in Chicago)

WGN ^ | 6-14-09 | Steve Kahn

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The cloudy, chilly and rainy open to June here has been the talk of the town. So far this June is running more than 12 degrees cooler than last year, and the clouds, rain and chilly lake winds have been persistent.

The average temperature at O'Hare International Airport through Friday has been only 59.5 degrees: nearly 7 degrees below normal and the coldest since records there began 50 years ago.

More bad weather is on the way Saturday with a cold rain expected to linger through the bulk of the morning. Rainfall could be heavy -- especially north of the city, which would be a reversal of Thursday's deluge that targeted the southern suburbs.

Better days ahead

Encouraging signs in recent computer runs signal a change to more typical June weather which by now should feature daily highs around 80 degrees. A return of sunshine should boost temperatures well into the 70s Sunday and Monday, though lake cooling will continue. By midweek a northward shift in the jet stream promises a steady diet of highs in the 80s, though showers and thunderstorms are likely to accompany the warm-up.

[JohnBrowdie]

it was hot in my backyard yesterday, so maybe global warming just moves around a lot. heh.

[stboz]

We haven’t run the a/c in Fresno in almost two weeks. Temps in the 70s and 80s.

[buffyt]

Calling Al Gore, Al Gore, please pick up the courtesy phone in the lobby! LOL har dee har har

Fuelling controversy that Gore lied about his profiteering from cap-and-trade

Al Gore invests millions to make billions in cap-and-trade software

Steve Milloy Bio

By Steve Milloy Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Al Gore’s venture capital firm has invested $6 million in a software company that stands to make billions of dollars from cap-and-trade regulation — further fueling controversy that Gore lied about his profiteering from cap-and-trade to Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee during testimony in April.

Hara Software sells software to help track greenhouse gas emissions. The market for such software is now about $2.5 billion dollars in size, and is expected to grow by a factor of ten to $25 billion if cap-and-trade legislation is enacted, according to Hara CEO Amit Chatterjee.

Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm in which Al Gore is a partner, invested in Hara just last year. Chatterjee told Reuters that,

“This company would not have existed if Al Gore had not bought off on the idea.”

Gore is also under fire for lying to Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) at the same congressional hearing about his relationship with Goldman Sachs.

Operating as a stealth tax, cap-and-trade will make the vast majority of Americans poorer and less free — but Al Gore, Kleiner Perkins, Amit Chatterjee and Hara will be laughing all the way to the bank.

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“Million dollar rain

By Paul Douglas | Published Sun, Jun 7 2009 7:25 am

There’s been a terrible mistake. I fell asleep Friday night and slept right through the summer, awaking in early October. Rip Van Douglas. There is no other plausible explanation.

Yesterday, reaching into the closet for a heavy jacket before braving a cold, wind-whipped rain, it all felt a little surreal. What happened? I should be wandering around the neighborhood in shorts, black socks and sandals, terrifying the neighbors. I SHOULD have a hint of sunburn on the tip of my nose. I SHOULD be hearing the familiar taunts of “hey Paul, hot ‘nuf ‘fer ‘ya? HaHaHa!”

I miss that (never thought I’d say that in public). Back in Meteorology 001, the introductory course, they teach us a). days of the week, b). which finger to point to the weather map with, and c). summer follows spring - it tends to get warmer as we approach the Summer Solstice. Perhaps I should go back and have a chat with some of my college professors, because something just isn’t right.

Yesterday was baffling. YES, we need the rain. The timing stinks, but on some level it was nice to see a long-lasting, soaking rain. Only .10” of rain fell on St. Cloud, on the northern fringe of the precipitation band, but .66” fell on the Twin Cities, with .59” in Rochester, where they set a record for the coolest high temperature ever recorded on June 6 (55 F.)

The mercury eaked out a “high” of only 52 in the Twin Cities and St. Cloud, well below the average high of 77 for this date. Keep in mind the average low for June 6 is 55 degrees.

There were reports of up to 3” of snow in the Black Hills of South Dakota, enough to shovel and plow! It felt like early April or the first week of October out there, a good day for running errands, power-shopping or daydreaming of warm, hazy, lazy days to come. And they will come.

If it’s any consolation last year we had rotten luck in June, just about every weekend was rained out.

*snip*

So who - or what - do we blame for this spell of unseasonably, UNREASONABLY cool weather?

Is there an atmospheric smoking gun, or do we just chalk this up to random atmospheric variability? Probably the latter.

The jet stream has more of a northwesterly component than we should be seeing in early June, when winds aloft historically howl from the southwest.

Could it be a symptom of what’s happening on the sun (fewest sunspots since 1928?)

Possibly. The graphic below shows a mild El Nino (warming) of equatorial Pacific Ocean water developing. If this trend continues and strengthens, with sea surface temperatures 2-4 degrees F warmer than average (a strong El Nino) then, statistically, that would tend to favor a milder autumn and winter for the northern 2/3rd’s of America, with wetter, cooler weather for much of the south.

I’m not yet ready to crawl out onto that shaky limb, but I don’t think we can point to anomalies in the Pacific for a clue as to why we’re walking the streets in jackets during the first week of June.

By the way, CPC, the Climate Prediction Center, is predicting a cooler than normal June for Minnesota and the Dakotas, which seems like a pretty good bet, based on how the pattern is setting up. Next week will be 5-10 degrees below average in the temperature department, but by the weekend we should be clawing back up to “normal”, whatever that is.”

http://www.minnpost.com/pauldouglas/2009/06/07/9347/million_dollar_rain

[mysterio]

It’s lake effect up there. I went camping up there (the dunes, not Chicago) in late June last year, and it was so cold I came home after a couple days. I was in the tent with two jackets on completely zipped up in a sleeping bag. And that was after a hot day. As soon as the sun went down, it was very, very cold.

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North Dakota Gets Snowfall In June: Breaks 60 Year Record - Global Cooling?

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t’s been 60 years since there was snowfall in western North Dakota in June. According to reports, that record has finally been broken and it snowed in Bismarck.

According to KXMC, “National Weather Service meteorologist
Janine Vining in Bismarck says there were unofficial reports of a couple of inches of snow in Dickinson on Saturday.

Vining says snow in North Dakota in June is uncommon, though it’s not unheard of. She says other parts of the state have seen June snow within the past 10 years.”

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/strange/article_212235964.shtml

[mplsconservative]

The article is interesting, but just so you know, Paul Douglas is one of the biggest global warming/climate change weenies out there.

[ßuddaßudd]

We havent seen 80’s at all here in San Jose this month.
maybe next week...

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Climate Models are Wrong - Explanation of Why
June 1, 2009 - Dr. Roy Spencer

Excerpt:

A Layman’s Explanation of Why Global Warming Predictions by Climate Models are Wrong
Updated: May 31, 2009

I occasionally hear the complaint that some of what I write is too technical to understand, which I’m sure is true. The climate system is complex, and discussing the scientific issues associated with global warming (aka “climate change”) can get pretty technical pretty fast.

Fortunately, the most serious problem the climate models have (in my view) is one which is easily understood by the public. So, I’m going to make yet another attempt at explaining why the computerized climate models tracked by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - all 23 of them - predict too much warming for our future. The basic problem I am talking about has been peer reviewed and published by us, and so cannot be dismissed lightly.

But this time I will use no graphs (!), and I will use only a single number (!!) which I promise will be a small one. Smile

I will do this in three steps. First, I will use the example of a pot of water on the stove to demonstrate why the temperature of things (like the Earth) rises or falls.

Secondly, I will describe why so many climate model “experts” believe that adding CO2 to the atmosphere will cause the climate system to warm by a large, possibly catastrophic amount.

Finally, I will show how Mother Nature has fooled those climate experts into programming climate models to behave incorrectly.

Some of this material can be found scattered through other web pages of mine, but here I have tried to create a logical progression of the most important concepts, and minimized the technical details. It might be edited over time as questions arise and I find better ways of phrasing things.

http://www.rightsidenews.com/200906014991/energy-and-environment/climate-modesl-are-wrong-explanation-of-why.html

[neocon1984]

Lake Michigan (near Chicago) is always very cold this time of year. It doesn’t usually warm up until late July.

Many years ago, I was sailing along (in June) when the boat capsized. It was a 90 degree day, but the water temp was in the 50’s. Good thing I had a life preserver. I was so stunned by the cold water, that my muscles and brain didn’t work for about 15 seconds.

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Why the Sun’s wacky orbit affects you- Global Warming?

Kirtland Griffin
New Haven County Environmental Policy Examiner

Excerpt:

Planets and Sun are relative in size. Distances are not: Solar System. (2009, June 12). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:10, June 12, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solar_System&oldid=295963209

The Moon orbits the Earth. The Earth orbits the Sun along with the rest of the planets. The whole shebang moves within our arm of our Galaxy.

But what is this about a Solar orbit? Bear with me while I delve into a bit of astrophysics. It will become clear to you what this means to us and our climate and as a result the policy decisions our politicians are about to inflict on us.

http://www.examiner.com/x-13886-New-Haven-County-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m6d13-Why-the-Suns-wacky-orbit-affects-you

[eclecticEel]

L.A. has been vary cool so far.

[Ditter]

I am getting pretty sick and tired of hearing how cold it is in parts of the country. Texas is flirting with 100 degrees and will be for the week to come. Weather this hot in June is not exactly normal. This is August weather. I keep remembering nObama saying we might not be able to keep our thermostats at 72 any more. Screw you jerk!

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Crops under stress as temperatures fall

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271326/posts

[mysterio]

Yikes. That water can be frigid.

I usually go up there the last week of June, and '06 and '07 were very pleasant. But then there are some years when you need a winter coat in June at night. It's just luck of the draw, I guess. Either way, it's my favorite place to go camping. There's a peace up there that I haven't found in many other places.

[MotleyGirl70]

It's been beautiful in Milwaukee the past few days. Temps in upper 70s/low 80s. However, about a week ago it was about 45 for a few days.

Weather in WI is psychotic. Winters seem to be getting longer and colder too. The brutal winters here are enough to make me want to move out.

[386wt]

This Spring the northern Foothills of the Sierra Nevada have been the wettest and coolest in the 25 years I have lived hear.

But you never hear about it in the news or from California weather related government agencies.

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Excerpt from article above:

" For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, thanks to our old friend "climate change". In many parts of the world recently the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers. After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest.

In Manitoba last week, it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.

There was midsummer snow not just in Norway and the Cairngorms, but even in Saudi Arabia. At least in the southern hemisphere it is winter, but snowfalls in New Zealand and Australia have been abnormal.

There have been frosts in Brazil, elsewhere in South America they have had prolonged droughts, while in China they have had to cope with abnormal rain and freak hailstorms, which in one province killed 20 people."

[386wt]

...lived here.

[spokeshave]

Only a few sunspots this year....welcome to another mini-ice age

[Hildy]

I live in Bullhead City, AZ, (across the river from Laughlin, NV). which is literally the hottest (and I don’t mean hip) city in the US. This time of year it should average about 110 degrees. When I moved here four years ago this week it was 120 degrees. So far we have not even hit 100. Don’t get me wrong, I love it. It’s not suppoed to hit 100 this week either.

[Vinnie]

My son outside Denver is still running his heat.

[Mr Rogers]

Tucson. June. Running the AC about an hour a day, tops.

I love global cooling...

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Here in the midwest, my building A/C has
been turned on for the ‘summer,’ no heat.
I’ve had to put layers on for sleeping to
keep from shivering on some nights .. ;)

[denydenydeny]

Now when you bring up the current cooler temperatures to a global warming believer, they insist that this is just a La Nina effect and we'll see "sharply renewed warming once La Nina declines."

Unfortunately for the global warmists, we've had three consecutive years of significant cooling, making this the longest La Nina ever, three years and counting.

[Chesterbelloc]

We haven’t run the a/c in Fresno in almost two weeks.

We had snow up here at Shaver Lake last weekend.

[Cuttnhorse]

Last week in Idaho, there were many houses with woodstove smoke curling from chimneys.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

None of the weatherbots told us last year that is was colder than normal. I don’t expect them to tell us this year either.

[jpsb]

I live in SE Texas, and until two weeks ago things were cooler then normal. Cool fronts in June are not normal. Also, temps have been in the 80', 90's for the last week or so, very much normal for mid June. Temps for July, Augusts should be 90's, 100s also normal for Texas.

The jet stream is at a lower latitude then is normal so those north of the jet stream are cooler then normal those south of the jet stream are pretty much unaffected. Except for later then normal cool fronts this spring and hopefully earlier then normal cool fronts this fall, Texas is pretty much unaffected by this abnormal position of the jet stream since we are well south of it.

[Inyo-Mono]

This Spring the northern Foothills of the Sierra Nevada have been the wettest and coolest in the 25 years I have lived hear.

But you never hear about it in the news or from California weather related government agencies.

I live in the Eastern Sierra, near the Nevada border, and it has been cloudy and cool for the last three and a half weeks with afternoon rain showers almost every day. And it has been snowing in the High Sierra and White Mountains too, sometimes down to the 8,000' level.

The National Weather Service office in Reno reports that this is the coolest, wettest June since they started keeping records in the 1880s.

[jpsb]

Seeing reports of temps 5, 8 and 10 defgree F, below normal this spring are very worry some. I'll be watching fall temps closely as I expect summer temps to bebound to close to normal.

This is at least the second "cool" spring and a much cooler spring at that. Now two data points to not make a trend, but if this continues we are in for a mini ice age at least. And a mini ice age would be very bad for a lot of folks. The thing to watch, if the cooler weather prevails this fall, is the North American glaciers, should they start a significant advance then things could get bad. Glacier formation on in the eastern mountains means we are screwed. Have a nice summer, stock up on fire wood.

[Inyo-Mono]

I can see glaciers from my living room window. If they start to advance I’ll be the first to know. And, oh yes, I am stocking up on firewood.

[jpsb]

Way cool! Love your tag line and please ping me if you report any glacier advance. thanks.

[BlueYonder]

The global warming crowd will always claim that every aberration in temperature is man-caused. To explain this year’s cooler temperatures is easy: the worldwide recession has caused lessened burning of fossil fuels which lowers emissions and directly relates to lowering of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

So you see, global warming alarmists are always right: we can save the earth simply by destroying the economy. What further proof could one want?

I would suggest that I’m being sarcastic here but I fully expect to see this explanation in print somewhere very soon.

[Ditter]

Right, I live in Houston. We had a cool wonderful spring, now we are in hell!

[Ditter]

I am under stress as temperatures rise. AAAARRRRGGGGGGGG!

[magellan]

"Al Gore invests millions to make billions in cap-and-trade software"

Algore picks up where Enron left off:

WorldNetDaily (Jan 19 2002) - Enron and Kyoto: Down in flames