[EBH]

Oddly cold here too...

Cold enough at night the maple trees are turning color already.

Personally, I attribute much of this to the ongoing axis tilt of the earth.

[relictele]

You are clearly a tiltist.

Enlightened Occupy types know that weather and climate are caused by running the AC at 70 deg.

[norwaypinesavage]

"I attribute much of this to the ongoing axis tilt of the earth."

Including a bit of precession, the earth continues to have about the same tilt it has had for the last several billion years. Please explain how this accounts for a cooler than normal summer?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I attribute much of this to the ongoing axis tilt of the earth.

The axial tilt ("obliquity of the ecliptic") is decreasing at 47" seconds of arc per century! If this keeps up, by the 179th Century, there won't be any axial tilt at all!