Guys, has everyone been noticing high temperatures in their areas for this time of year? It hit a balmy 73F today -- and it is OCTOBER!! That's about 30F HIGHER than it should be this time of year. Don't get me wrong; I'm enjoying the good hypermiling extension -- it helped me knock the bottom out of my gas bucket numbers (have a look at the daily grind thread for today!) -- but something is seriously wrong here. 7 years ago when I moved to MN there was snow on the ground the second week of October.
Yea, we've been staying 5-10 degrees above the average daily temps and expect to continue until next week at least.
Hi Sean: ___We are experiencing late July through mid-August like temps here in Chicago from mid-September through early October and it is supposed to be even warmer yet again by the weekend. If this is even a hint of what is to come, the south and desert southwest may be almost uninhabitable or at least unbearable within a decade or three during the summer months. ___Good Luck ___Wayne
They said Boston may break a record (85) this weekend. I remember cleaning snow off my car Oct 10th one year.
Yup. I didn't think anything of it since I'm not from around here, but according to locals it's warm even for South Carolina. We had a week where it dipped down to the high 70s/low 80s, but it bounced back into the high 80s with some days over 90. So we're about a month behind where we should be. We haven't quite broken any records, though. The really odd thing is morning lows. We should be in th e 50s, it was 72F yesterday morning at 7AM.
climate change - global warming = unstable, changing weather. Climate change represents a change in these long-term weather patterns. They can become warmer or colder. Annual amounts of rainfall or snowfall can increase or decrease.
We had unseasonably cool weather in central FL for a few days - now it's sticky and hot like late July. I wish nature would make up her mind.
It's fairly normal here in TX. We're running about 5 degrees above average, but still a good 10 below record. The thing that seems different is how steady it is. This time of year, we normally start getting the Battle of the Fronts - Cold front comes in, drops the temps by 20-30 degrees, and then a few days later a warm front comes in and reverses it. We've had the same weather for a couple weeks in a row now!
We, too, I should add are below record highs here. I'm not prepared to blame GW, just think it's seasonal variation.
In Reno/Tahoe it's a roller coaster. It's snowed twice at altitude and once on the valley floor already, but yesterday it was 84F and we've set two high temp records and tied 2 others in the last month. I've been dressing in layers each morning for the last month. heh
Not going to complain about it ...I'm a fair weather Minnesotan myself . I do remember snow drifts at the garage roof line as a kid right after Halloween . I have pictures of my Gramps with his horse powered snow plow literally stuck on a telephone pole(in mid November iirc). The Globe has been warming for a long time .
Unusually cool and wet here in the Pacific NW. Our cold/wet season doesn't usually start in earnest until mid October. Usually in late September the spell of summer is broken by a few rainy days followed by 2-3 weeks of glorious warm weather lasting well into October. Not this year. We just finished up the wettest September in 12 years and it's still raining with no end in sight according to the forecast. We just got 8-12" of snow in the mountain passes, the earliest I can recall in 18 years in the Pacific NW. Usually we get the first pass level snow in mid to late October. Considering we had also just finished off a cool, wet summer, a lot of people around here would kill for the weather everyone else is having.
Here we go... It was 84F the day before yesterday, there is enough snow on Mount Rose Highway today to have the snow tires or chains requirement, and it will be 76 by this coming Wednesday. I told you it's a roller coaster here right now.
I remember in my younger days, around Dec 25th there was always a chance of snow(October to march) and when it did snow their would be 5-7ft snow drifts surrounding the house. now that I'm older snow comes just around Feb-March only, mabey a dusting or blizzard around 2-3 feet drifting up to 4ft across my driveway.
86 here today in Southern MI, decided to ride the motorcycle in today instead. Still suppose to be near 70 in the morning. Normal average temp for the first week of October 65.
