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Post by byz on Jul 28, 2009 9:12:31 GMT
Well the Jetstream summer continues Sunshine and showers! Also the UK has had 180% the normal rain for July this seems to be a growing trend (3 wet summers in a row) so much for the Met Offices "Barbecue Summer" It's been a bad growing season, by this time last year I had a tomato glut! My first tomato turned red yesterday all the others are still green Apparently the Met Office are now saying that good weather will turn up in August, will they be correct ;D AGW was supposed to bring hot dry summers in the UK and warm wet winters, the last three years have been the exact opposite. In Fact if you read your history it looks more like the early 14th century. Thermometers may say one thing (next to an air conditioner unit!) but plants don't lie, if they don't germinate or grow it is cold July is heading rapidly to the 1971-2000 average so again a third summer that has failed to launch, if this carries on we are going to get starvation.
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Post by bender on Jul 28, 2009 22:02:15 GMT
Chicago Sees Coldest July In 67 Years Average Temperature Only 68.9 Degrees Record Cold July Means Shrinking Bills Have you left your air conditioner in the closet this summer, and worn long pants more often than shorts? If so, you may not be surprised to find out that Chicago is seeing its coldest July in more than 65 years. The National Weather Service says 2009 has seen the coldest July since the official recording station was moved away from the lakefront in 1942. The average temperature this month in Chicago has been a mere 68.9 degrees. Even in the years before 1942, when the National Weather Service recorded temperatures at the cooler lakefront, there are only three years that had colder Julys through the 26th. cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.coldest.july.2.1103959.html
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Post by byz on Jul 29, 2009 14:35:36 GMT
Well the BBC is now pointing out on every bulletin (since newsnight last night) that the Met Office have got the long term prediction for this Summer very wrong. The last time I looked they are now pointing out that they have got the last three Summers wrong. All average or below average ;D Quite cold today with a strong breeze, last night my children were asking if I could put the woodstove on as it was so cold
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Post by bender on Aug 2, 2009 17:21:54 GMT
In New York, It’s the Summer That Isn’t The Playland amusement park in Rye, N.Y., was closed on Friday because of rain, as it has been 11 times this season. The park supervisor said that at one point this summer, coffee was the best-selling drink. The city’s average temperature last month was 72.6. This summer has been conspicuously different in New York City. Not one 99-degree day in Central Park. Not a single day that the temperature even approached 90. For just the second time in 140 years of record keeping, the temperature failed to reach 90 in either June or July. The daily average last month was at or below normal every day but two. The temperature broke 80 on 16 days in New York — one more day than in Fairbanks, Alaska. Depending on Friday’s high, this was the second or third coolest June and July recorded in New York. If August follows the same pattern — and the latest forecast through midmonth predicts that it will — this could be the coolest summer on record. www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/nyregion/01hot.html?_r=3&hp
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Post by byz on Aug 4, 2009 9:05:39 GMT
Well the crap Summer continues here in the UK! Yesterday afternoon was good for once went for a great walk in Woldingham next to the railway blackberry picking. Saw for myself the Urban heat island effect in action! Around my house in Caterham where there is more housing the blackberries are already ripe, one mile away in the next valley they are still green. At last my tomatoes are ripening ;D Unfortunately this Summer seem perfect for bind weed
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Post by lyrch75 on Aug 10, 2009 23:40:25 GMT
We have now had 3 full summer days in NE Ohio. It went from low seventies Thursday, low eighties Friday, and high eighties/low nineties Sunday and Today. That is a miserable amount of weather change.
Helping my garden a good bit, but weeds are making the most of it, as I am not going to pull them in this heat.
*all temps F.
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Post by scooter on Aug 11, 2009 0:29:55 GMT
For all of y'all complaining about your cool wet summer please forward to us here in S. Texas. 55+ days of 100 degrees or more and we have not had real soaking rains going on 2 yrs. Large numbers of mature trees some 30+ yrs old are dying from lack of rain and there's nothing in the forecast. Most people down here are praying for a slow moving hurricane so we can get some moisture. Officially we are in the worst recorded drought to hit S. Texas history.
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Post by byz on Aug 11, 2009 19:42:29 GMT
For all of y'all complaining about your cool wet summer please forward to us here in S. Texas. 55+ days of 100 degrees or more and we have not had real soaking rains going on 2 yrs. Large numbers of mature trees some 30+ yrs old are dying from lack of rain and there's nothing in the forecast. Most people down here are praying for a slow moving hurricane so we can get some moisture. Officially we are in the worst recorded drought to hit S. Texas history. wow that is important in previous periods of cold in Europe their have been drought conditions in the USA
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Post by byz on Aug 16, 2009 12:35:44 GMT
Yippeeeeee
Summer has at last arrived in the southeast of England ;D
All my plants are responding the cucumber plants have burst into flower again, the tomatoes are ripening, even more strawberries ;D
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Post by byz on Sept 8, 2009 16:22:04 GMT
One last hurrah by the summer here in the south of the UK. It felt like early August! certainly helped my chili peppers 27 Degrees C
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