It's nearly June, and Iowa is cold....

[Skidmore]

What is going on with the climate in this region? We have the furnace still running at nights. I've planted one garden, and it mostly never came up--the tomato sets succumbed to frost. I planted a second garden yesterday and then the temperature dropped last night again. I don't even have blossoms on few little pea vines that did poke up.

This is bizarre weather.

[ebayfool]

1. I'm in CA - it's been cold here too! This time of year we should have come

close to & over the 100's by now! Instead it's mostly rain & cold enough at night to still need to close up the house & plug in the blankets. We've had 2 hottish days, mixed in w/the rain & cold ... it can't seem to decide the season. This is Feb/Mar weather for us - it's the weirdest weather pattern I've ever seen for our area!

[B Calm]

2. Do you live north of I-80 or south of I-80?

When I was an over the road truck driver it always seemed that anything north of I-80 had harsher weather.

[Skidmore]

3. We're about 5 miles north of I-80

but we usually have something resembling springtime here and usually by now, it's more summerlike. Last year at this time, I had already frozen 4 gallons of peas, and had started picking early green beans. I don't even have a plant up yet.

[B Calm]

6. I live in west central Indiana and we always wait until early May

before we put out our garden. Many times in the past we had nice warm spells in early April and put our garden out early only to lose it to frost. This year we had a very warm April and then a little later another cold snap..

I thought last summer was cool all summer here..

[Blue Gardener]

12. What was really odd

Was all the warm weather in April, then all the cold weather in May. All my perennials were two to three weeks ahead this year, but I had to cover then several times in May so they wouldn't get killed by the freezing temperatures. So, even though it's been pretty cold this month, some of the perennials are blooming earlier than normal. I'm only about a mile north of I-80.

[Skidmore]

14. I've had that experience too. nt

[Selatius]

4. If things keep up, the weather will go whacky

If what this news article say is true, the Gulf Stream, which helps to keep parts of North America and Europe warm is beginning to falter. Global warming is cited as a cause of this. If the damage is not stopped, it could shut down, and that warmth will disappear.

CLIMATE change researchers have detected the first signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream — the mighty ocean current that keeps Britain and Europe from freezing.

They have found that one of the “engines” driving the Gulf Stream — the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea — has weakened to less than a quarter of its former strength.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1602579,00.html

[Wright Patman]

5. It's been close to 100 in this part

of Texas the last couple of days. Also, it has rained like four times in the past two months and this is supposed to be our rainy season. Everything will soon be dying.

Our political situation has long ago descended into hell in Texas so maybe the weather is just being made to match our mentality here.

Special Weather Statement:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=TXZ107&warncounty=TXC223&local_place1=Rural+Hopkins+County&product1=Special+Weather+Statement

[mandyky]

7. Same with Kentucky

We've had a lot of cool nights and a few frosty ones. In March or April (I forget which) we broke record lows because they were no days that reached 60 degrees. We had snow in March.

I'm not a native here so I am not sure if this has happened before. It is quite common in upstate NY where I am from to have cool springs. When I was a young adult we had several years where we had mid May snow storms.

Just caught Day after Tommorrow on HBO, and am a tad bit scared about all this climate change.

[HockeyMom]

10. Same here

on Long Island. It's been in the 40s at night and barely into the 60s during the day. I've had to keep putting heat on at night and given the price of gas heating, it's getting very expensive. Also, seems that there has been a lot of rain too, almost every weekend. I heard they are predicting a very cool summer too.

It was a very snowy and cold winter this past year so the pattern is continuing. But I do remember when my kids were little back in the 80s, we did have snow in early April (Easter one year), so it is not uncommon.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

16. Same here in Westchester County.

Normally we have a few days of spring in April and then go directly to summertime weather. Now it's the upper 40s to low 50s at night, and maybe kissing 70 during the day. I think all in all we have had a couple of days that hit the mid-70s.

[anarchy1999]

8. Can you spell Global Warming, I knew you could, now can you

spell "Climate Change"? Good. Get the picture. It's is real, as in warming and climate change. Hey King George, we don't need more science, we just need innovation!

Like as when we went to the moon!

[Skidmore]

11. I could use less of

a flippant, smart-tushed response, and more of a specific explanation or discussion of why my region is affected in this particular way. What changes beyond a somewhat vague "global warming" are occurring? I found the previous poster's pointing to an article about the Gulf Stream to be helpful and appreciate it.

[anarchy1999]

18. Sorry, I don't mean to be "flippant" at all! Where have you been the last

few years. There have been numerous docs on PBS, Discovery, you can find info all over the internet. I'm sorry, I was so sarcastic. Please forgive and by the end of the day I'm sure you'll have more than you can get through in a day or two when it comes to links and information regarding the strange weather being experienced by all globally.

[dbt]

9. Don't worry. The government is going to SAVE US!!!!

Thank GOD for Senator Kay Hutchinson of Texas, who has had the foresight to introduce S.517: A bill to establish a Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes. Read all about it here and join me in a BIG sigh of relief!

:eyes:

[Horse with no Name]

20. Growing up in Arizona in the 70's

I remember they used to "seed the clouds" when we were in dire need of rain.
With that being said, it also reminds me of the commercial they used to play at the same time "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature".
I can't even imagine what they are doing to the environment and what havoc will be wrought upon us by Mother Nature for interfering with the weather.

[lonestarnot]

26. Shit... LOL I remember this. Just a bag of nutjobs....idea didn't do much

if I recall correctly.

[mwb970]

13. Same thing in Columbus...

I don't remember having to run the furnace this late in May before. (It's on now.)

[peacebuzzard]

15. early AM in E. Tn. and I have the portable heater on.

I have been chilly for days. My house is in the woods, but still, this is the first time in 17 years I have been chilly like this while the summer is supposed to be here.

[Karenina]

17. Checking in from Western Europe

Unhappy camper here... It's too frickin KALT!

[tnlefty]

29. Chilly for longer than is usual is what I've noticed, too.

I won't complain about the rain amounts, but by this time I've had the winter comforter off of the bed, cleaned and put away by at least a month, but not this year. In the past my kids have been begging for shorts and short sleeved shirts for school, but not this year.

The fluctuations in the temps. have been weird to me, also.

[MissWaverly]

19. cold here in Maryland

one of the Doctors I worked with lost all her tomato plants, the rule
here is that it's safe to plant after mother's day but not this year.
My dad always said that during World War II, that the summers weren't
really summers but were rainy and cold. I know that last summer we
got so much rain here that I didn't water the grass once. (which is
unusual). I think that all the bombing and burning oil wells in Iraq have effected the weather globally.

[zanne]

21. New Hampshire. Freezing my ass off.

And it's been raining for what seems like weeks. I expect to plant my garden in late June and be picking string beans in September.

[Zorbuddha]

22. Never before have atmospheric CO2 levels been this high

without resulting in an ice-age. And it happens quickly, often transitioning in as little as a decade.

When the canals in Amsterdam freeze and the Thames freezes solid, people will begin to notice. This could be a rough year for crops, and if the World Series gets snowed out even America might even pay attention.

edit-grammar

[n2mark]

23. Send some of the cold our way

The temp is suppose to hit 111 degrees today. A little early for this high of temp.

[DeepModem Mom]

24. Where I am, it's a hundred degrees -- far too early....

the Earth is really messed up.

[lonestarnot]

25. Record breaking hot temperatures here in Phoenix, 110 yesterday and

expect 113 today.

[seabeyond]

27. panhandle of texas

end of may, we went from cold, with a few warm days scattered, snow in may,.....to 100 the last couple days. where is the easy into summer, lol. but has been odd, because so much of spring was cold, and here we are hitting june.

has been an odd year of weather

[Skittles]

28. 100 f***ing degrees here

WTF? IT IS STILL AN ENTIRE MONTH BEFORE SUMMER :o

[PurityOfEssence]

30. Maybe Luntz' term "global climate change" will bite them on the ass

By the way, I'm not referring to any posters on this thread; this references standard conservative sneering-points.

It's always been easy for idiots to point out how unseasonably cold it is and snort a dismissal of global warming, but freakish changes in weather patterns easily fit into the term "global climate change".

Personally, I think we should rely more on a term like "global climate DISRUPTION". It needs to sound dangerous and out of control.

[n2mark]

31. I have an idea

Let's send the heat to D.C. especially let it sit over the WH and the Capital building. Hopefully the heat would cause some air conditioning problems. Let them get a taste of the heat.

[Karenina]

32. Please don tinfoil before reading this post!

:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

Karenina is a VERY unhappy camper these days. All dem personal "life challenges" would be helped by the tiniest bit of nice weather.
It's nearly the end of MAY and I gotta tell ya, ETWAS STIMMT NICHT.
The sun is intense (I'M ALLERGIC, thank you Ortho-Novum, and don't venture out before 16:30) and warms the air, but on top is a FUCKING COLD breeze! We are NOT in Kansas anymore... :freak:

[Freddie Stubbs]

33. It's unseasonably chilly here in central Pennsylvania

:(

[UdoKier]

34. Weather report says high 81 low 55 in Des Moines

Is that so shocking for this time of year? I couldn't stand to have the heat on when it's that warm. 55 degree nights are just right for sleeping, with no heat or A/C.

[Flubadubya]

35. S.W. Arkansas... DROUGHT already... Hot and praying for rain!

This is the earliest we have ever had this much shortage of rain and for it to be this hot (mid to upper 90s). It is just AWFUL. Will gladly trade you weather conditions. :)

[Bouncy Ball]

36. Well, we're already hitting 99 degrees.

Whew.

We are having a cold front come in Friday--a high of only 85.

[Strelnikov_]

37. Consistent With Shut Down Of Atlantic Heat Pump

It could just be normal variation in the weather.

However, all of the weather posted here is consistent with a shut down of the thermohalene convection:

- Midwest and Northeast colder, dryer and windier than normal.

- Southeast and mid-south (to middle TX, OK) hot and dry.

- Northern Europe lots colder, dryer, windier.

Coupled with the recent BBC report that the convection current has weakened by 75%, one has to wonder . . .