thought about firing up the stove this morning...

We're having unusually cooler weather here in the Southeast this summer. We're normally in the low, mid, or even upper 90s all of July, but we've only been in the mid to upper 80s most of the month. And, if the forecast holds, we're supposed to only reach 83 on Saturday!

Global warming can kiss my skinny white arse! :cheese:

Crazy weather this "Summer." Wet and cold . . . I cannot remember a year that has had a summer that has been as wet and cold . . . heck I even had a fire going on the 4th and a few days after that just to warm up the house. As for the pool . . . I have been in it once -- and that was when I had to jump in and push out the winter cover in late-spring . . . at which point I can tell you it was mighty cold.

Hey Andy, it seems most of us are going through the same thing; very cool summer. And you told us you would be cutting wood this summer, not burning it! lol

Here in MI, we had 20 days in June below normal in temperature and so far every day in July. I recall only one year cooler than this year and that was sometime in the 80's but don't remember the exact year; probably 85 or 86.

Weather is complicated, that's for sure! One of the first articles I read about global warming back in the 80's said that we would be in for "variations" in our weather patterns as we achieve a new balance. In the Eastern U. S. we have had some of our snowy-est winters in the early 90s - thanks to the volcano Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines . And we have had many of our warmest summers in America in the 80's and 90's. Meanwhile, the average temperatures keep creeping up world wide, year after year. This year, our influence seems to be something called the "Pacific Decadal Oscillation" - Translation: the Pacific Ocean is in a roughly 10 year cycle of now being cold. That's sets up the weather patterns for the US that the above posters have covered.

What does this mean for the coming months? Who knows, if anyone could truly predict the weather more than a few days in advance, they would be the most important person in the world!

Meanwhile, I'm stacking firewood! If January is 10 degrees below average --- well, I don't even want to think about that......

Global warming is done, the average world wide temps peaked out in 1998 and been going down ever since. The weather cycles about every 30 years give or take and it's cause by many natural factors not man. 20 years from now the alarmists will be screaming about the next ice age.

My local weather man is calling for 50's for high temps on Friday, it's mid July and I might have fire up the stove! :ahhh:

Hot and dry out here in the west. Having an unusually nice summer so far. Global warming is global, not local.

If I hadn't already cleaned out all the ash and swept the chimney there have been a couple of times this month I would have lit the stove up.

I'll just have to wait until Sept.

BeGreen said:

True dat. Global warming is a marketing phrase. Climate change is happening. Ask an Aussie how their summer was last December.

Out here, we are so dry that some trees are already losing their leaves.

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True Dat, True Dat, was 87 here two days ago. Forest fires a growin. Glaciers a disappearing.

Gee whiz North, you are having warmer temperatures than we are! We've seen only one day like that so far this year and that was about a month ago.

Ours continues in da Yoop. Forecast high of 50 for tomorrow. In all my years growing up here I don't recall too many 50 degree days in mid July. (60, yes.) Will likely be burning the second break-in fire in the new Fireview. (Will post install pics soon.)

Quite different, I do remember many days in the 50's as a Yooper. Naturally most of those days I was not very far inland.

I remember back on July 4th 1995 when I lived in Marquette, MI we went to the beach and there was still small ice chunks floating around! :bug: I lived in the UP for 10 years and the weather always amazed me, it could be in the 40's near the lake and in the 80's 5 miles inland.

Only 55 right now and thinking of firing the stove before I go to a baseball game tonight, so I can come home to a nice toasty house.

it is 75 here today and sunny. It is not unusual to see 100 this time of year. Low 90s are standard. This is weird stuff for sure.

I've seen dirt-insulated snow piles in parking lots survive into late June if not July in Marquette. The winter of 94-95 was extremely cold even by UP standards (30-some straight days below 0), and the lake completely froze over, so I wouldn't be surprised at ice that late. Still, an even 50 (as opposed to mid-to-upper 50's, which is not so uncommon) as the high in mid July would be an outlier in my experience. (It actually got closer to 60 today.)

I can also remember a summer in Marquette working in an un-air-conditioned pharmacy when it was 90's constantly. When my parents first moved here from Texas in 1975 or 1976 (I was 2) it was near 100 for the first week. They thought they had left that behind! You just never know up here. Makes it more interesting than the various tropical islands where the record low is 65 and the record high is 80. Here the record low is below -30, and the record high is around 100.

Global warming is marketing and climate change is reality. Climate change has been happening since the moment this planet was created. Global warming is how Al Gore padded his savings account. My climate has been cold and sucky, for the most part, since October 2008. But I took the day off today for some golf, 85 degrees and humid. Boy was it nice.

Record cold high temps here yesterday and predicted again for today (it barely made 60°F). I lit a small fire in the stove last night after coming in off the lake from fishing. It was cloudy, sprinkling, and very windy but the fish were biting! And to think the highest temperature ever recorded in Wisconsin was 114°F at Wisconsin Dells July 13th, 1936.

There is a phenomenon in Michigan. 99% or more of the time the Lower Peninsula is warmer than the Upper (makes sense as one is further south). However, if you look at the records, almost every year there will be several days where it is warmer in the UP than in the LP. No, I do not know why this happens.

But overall, most of the time it is a good 10 degrees or more difference between the north and south in MI. Where we live now even compared to Gaylord, only 150 miles further north there many times are 15 or 20 degrees difference in temperature. It is just a different climate up north.

It's had been raining here for days and we had the gas furnace on a few times but it finally stopped last night. Supposed to stay cool all weekend though so won't be sweating none.